Hello Mark,

A no-till version of DSSAT 3.5 also exists and can be made available. It uses
some of the water balance routines of Dadoun and was developed further at
CIMMYT, as well as tested on long-term tillage trials. It will handle
sequences as well.

Peter Grace

Brian Baer wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The official version of CERES (and I assume the rest of the DSSAT models)
> have no routines to simulate the effects of tillage on soil water.
>
> Frederic Dadoun was  a student here working with Dr. Richie who, for his
> PhD, worked out routines for adding tillage to CERES version 2, you may
> want to look at that thesis.
>
> Brian Baer
>
> At 12:58 PM 10/23/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >Colleagues,
> >
> >We are trying to run DSSATon No-Till maize plots. How do we setup our
> >FILEX for no-till?
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Mark Sunohara
>
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