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Studies of the Effects of Tilling vs. No Tilling on Crop Yields

Authors	Crop	Crop yield with tilling (kilograms per hectare)	Crop yield with no tilling (kilograms per hectare)
Danijel Jug and colleagues	winter wheat	4,860	3,910
Carlos Cantero-Martinez and colleagues	winter barley	2,693	3,136
R.K. Jat and colleagues	maize	3,000	5,200
Gevan Behnke and colleagues	soybeans	4,285	3,798

Danijel Jug and colleagues found that tilling—the practice of turning soil with hoes, plows, or other machines before planting crops—was associated with an increased yield of winter wheat. But some studies of other crops have found the opposite effect, raising the question of whether the increase in yield found by Jug and colleagues is specific to their study crop. However, this doesn’t seem to be the case: __________

Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the assertion?

crop yields with tilling have ranged from 2,693 kilograms per hectare for winter barley to 4,860 kilograms per hectare for winter wheat.

Gevan Behnke and colleagues found a similar association in a study using soybeans.

a study using winter wheat yielded 4,860 kilograms per hectare with tilling and only 3,910 kilograms per hectare without tilling.

R.K. Jat and colleagues reported an even larger positive effect of tilling on the yield of maize.