Quantifying the impacts of soil disturbance on crop yield after installing an underground pipeline is essential for implementing effective mitigation plans and land restoration guidelines in agricultural systems. The objective of this study was to model maize and soybean yields on disturbed (subsurface pipeline installation areas) and adjacent undisturbed (control) land areas. Field observations and simulation results depicted the negative impacts of soil disturbance on soil physical, chemical, and hydrological properties. Grain yield and aboveground biomass losses up to 27% were observed in the pipeline disturbed area, where the soil profile had 15% lower plant-available water retention capacity than the undisturbed soil. APSIM was parameterized using two years (2019 and 2020) of in-season crop growth observations from a soybean-maize rotation system. Simulation of yield production was further evaluated against independent data from 2017 to 2018. The overall model performance was assessed using the index of modeling efficiency (EF). The model was effective in simulating aboveground biomass (EF disturbed-undisturbed: 0.96–0.98), grain yield (EF disturbed-undisturbed: 0.91–0.96), and soil water content in the 0–450 mm soil layer (EF disturbed-undisturbed: 0.84–0.86) for the parameterization dataset. Furthermore, the EF values for simulations of the independent yield data were also satisfactory (EF of 0.98 and 0.97 for disturbed and undisturbed soils, respectively). Soil disturbance reduced water use efficiency (WUE) by 25% and 30% in soybean and maize, respectively. This study indicated the suitability of using APSIM for simulating crop growth and yield production in the highly disturbed pipeline installation area.

在安装地下管道后量化土壤扰动对作物产量的影响对于在农业系统中实施有效的缓解计划和土地恢复指南至关重要。本研究的目的是模拟受干扰（地下管道安装区域）和邻近未受干扰（控制）土地区域的玉米和大豆产量。实地观察和模拟结果描述了土壤扰动对土壤物理、化学和水文特性的负面影响。在管道受干扰区域观察到粮食产量和地上生物量损失高达 27%，其中土壤剖面的植物有效保水能力比未受干扰的土壤低 15%。APSIM 使用两年（2019 年和 2020 年）大豆-玉米轮作系统的当季作物生长观测值进行参数化。根据 2017 年至 2018 年的独立数据进一步评估了产量模拟。使用建模效率指数 (EF) 评估了整体模型性能。该模型在模拟地上生物量（EF 扰动-原状：0.96-0.98）、粮食产量（EF 扰动-原状：0.91-0.96）和 0-450 mm 土层的土壤含水量（EF 扰动-原状： 0.84–0.86) 用于参数化数据集。此外，模拟独立产量数据的 EF 值也令人满意（扰动和未扰动土壤的 EF 分别为 0.98 和 0.97）。土壤扰动使大豆和玉米的水分利用效率 (WUE) 分别降低了 25% 和 30%。