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Dry Farming in the Great Basin

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Contents: Introduction --- Location and General Description of the Region --- Experiments In Dry Farming in the Great Basin (Private Experiments in Dry Farming – The Utah Arid Experiment Farms) --- Local Conditions Which Affect Dry Farming (Precipitation Mainly in Winter – Annual Variation in Rainfall – Influence of Local Topography on Rainfall) --- Methods of Interseason Tillage (Maintenance of a Clean Summer Fallow – The Importance of Soil Texture) --- Crops and Crop Tillage (Tillage for Wheat – Tillage for Alfalfa – Thin Seeding Essential to Best Results) --- The Sustained Productiveness of Dry-Farmed Soils (The Heavy Soils Not Leached – The Importance of Organic Matter in the Soil – Conditions Favoring Nitrification – The Fixation of Nitrogen – Organic Matter Lost by Oxidation) --- Dry Farming Supplementary to Irrigation --- Making a Home on the Dry Lands --- Summary.

Source: AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.414518

Author: Scofield, Carl S.

Language: English

Topic: Irrigation Practices and Water Management

Subfield: Soil Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDGs: Zero hunger, Climate action, Life on land

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W375794749

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Cited by: 5

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