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Corn Stover Mulch for Control of Runoff and Erosion on Land Planted to Corn After Corn¹

ABSTRACT

A mulch of corn stover and barnyard manure has given excellent control of soil and water losses from corn after corn on a steeply sloping deep loess soil. During 9 years of measurement in Wisconsin, losses of soil and water from corn after corn with a mulch were less than from corn or oats without mulch in a corn-oats-hay rotation and were about equal to the losses from the meadow in the rotation. Corn yields averaged 3 bushels more from the corn after corn than from the corn in the 3-year rotation.

¹ Contribution from the Corn Belt Branch, Soil and Water Conservation Research Division, ARS, USDA, in cooperation with the Wisconsin Agr. Exp. Sta.

² Soil Scientist and Field Station Superintendent, La Crosse, Wis.; Soil Scientist, Marcellus, N. Y., formerly of Madison, and Soil Scientist, Madison, Wis., respectively.

Received for publication April 1, 1963. Accepted for publication August 12, 1963.