<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper reviews the results of recent traffic systems research and concludes that the evidence shows that with sufficient ingenuity by farmers and their equipment suppliers to match operating and wheel track widths, the traffic management systems that reduce soil compaction should improve crop yield, reduce energy consumption and improve infiltration rates (which will reduce runoff, erosion and flooding). These together will improve agronomic, economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture. Low ground pressure alternatives may well be the option that best suits some farming enterprises and should not be discounted as viable traffic management methods. The paper also considers the implications for further work to improve the robustness of the experimental data.</p></abstract>

This paper reviews the results of recent traffic systems research and concludes that the evidence shows that with sufficient ingenuity by farmers and their equipment suppliers to match operating and wheel track widths, the traffic management systems that reduce soil compaction should improve crop yield, reduce energy consumption and improve infiltration rates (which will reduce runoff, erosion and flooding). These together will improve agronomic, economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture. Low ground pressure alternatives may well be the option that best suits some farming enterprises and should not be discounted as viable traffic management methods. The paper also considers the implications for further work to improve the robustness of the experimental data.

Results From Recent Traffic Systems Research And The Implications For Future Work

Harper Adams University, Newport, Shropshire, United Kingdom

CTF Europe, Maulden, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovak Republic

NIAB TAG, Morley, Norfolk, United Kingdom

Acta Technologica Agriculturae

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This paper reviews the results of recent traffic systems research and concludes that the evidence shows that with sufficient ingenuity by farmers and their...

Results From Recent Traffic Systems Research And The Implications For Future Work

Published Online: Sep 19, 2015

Page range: 57 - 63

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ata-2015-0013

Keywords
controlled traffic farming, tillage, cereals, yield, soil management

© Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Results From Recent Traffic Systems Research And The Implications For Future Work

Published Online: Sep 19, 2015

Page range: 57 - 63

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ata-2015-0013

Keywordscontrolled traffic farming, tillage, cereals, yield, soil management

© Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
controlled traffic farming, tillage, cereals, yield, soil management