Big Spring Field Station study unveils the best paths to steady yields
This accessible report summarizes long-term crop experiments at Big Spring, Texas, from 1916 to 1953. It focuses on how different cropping systems, soil practices, and moisture conditions affect the productivity of cotton, sorghums, cowpeas, and other crops, with practical takeaways for farmers and researchers alike.
- Learn which crops proved most productive and dependable, with cotton and grain sorghums at the top.
- See how cowpeas served as a valuable legume hay, and where Sudan grass fits as a pasture crop.
- Discover how fall plowing, subsoiling, and timing of tillage influenced yields and erosion control, and why some practices did not pay off.
- Understand how soil nitrogen and moisture storage behaved under various rotations, manuring, and fallow strategies.
Ideal for readers interested in historical field trials, crop rotations, and practical farming insights drawn from decades of field data.