Agricultural field burning in the Willamette Valley

Book · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1969

OSTI ID:5311956

Field burning in the production of grass seed and cereal grain crops is a highly effective agricultural practice to accomplish residue disposal field sanitation, seedbed preparation, and yield maintenance. Field burning involves major side effects in the form of air pollution. From the standpoint of benefits to agriculture, the field sanitation provided to certain perennial grass seed crops is of prime importance. Reductions in open field burning with certain perennial species to less than annual basis, without major problems in productive effectiveness, may be possible. Field burning associated with annual crops - annual rye grass and cereal grains - is beneficial from an agricultural standpoint primarily as a management practice which contributes to lower production costs. With these crops, the main issue is one of removing large tonnages of residue economically. Research to date indicates that straw removal in some form is critical with both perennial and annual crops. The most immediately available and promising utilization method with these crop residues would appear to be as a feed for livestock. Extensive research is under way on alternative crops for the heavy, wet type of soils now in grass seed production in the mid-Willamette Valley. 6 tables.

• OSTI ID: 5311956
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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