In: Cropping Systems ISBN: 978- 1 - 63485 - 888 - 5
Editor: Johanna G. Hodges © 2017 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Chapter 3
LONG-TERM WINTER WHEAT CROPPING
INFLUENCE ON SOIL QUALITY
AND YIELD STABILITY
Srđan Šeremešić1,*, Ivica Đalović^2 and Dragiša Milošev^1
(^1) Department of Field and Vegetable Crops, Faculty of Agriculture,
University Novi Sad, Sq. D. Obradovića, Novi Sad, Serbia;
(^2) Maize Department, Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops,
Maksima Gorkog, Novi Sad, Serbia
ABSTRACT
In the past Century, wheat cropping has not undergone significant
changes compared with row crops while the higher input of the
agricultural chemistry insufficiently contributed to the yield increase.
Along with this, high yielding varieties of winter wheat were continually
grown. Therefore, there is a need to consider the relationship between soil
quality, environmental effects and winter wheat yield stability. To access
the wheat- based cropping effects, data was used from a long-term
experiment (LTE) “Crop Rotation” located at the Rimski Šančevi
experimental field of the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Novi
Sad (N 45° 19`, E 19° 50`). The original experimental plots were set up in
1946/47, and modified in 1969/70. It consists of a different crop rotations
and monoculture of winter wheat including different fertilization options.- Corresponding Author address: Email: [email protected].