Browsing by Subject "nutrient uptake"
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(2014)Tillage and sowing methods impact on the nutrient balances which is an interest of researchers and farmers. An aim of the research is to compare nutrient balances of tillage and sowing. During the years 2000 – 2010 in Jokioinen, studies have been conducted concerning how different tillage and sowing methods affect spring cereal nitrogen and phosphorus balances in heavy clay soil. The compared tillage systems were autumn mouldboard (25 cm) plough, stubble cultivation (10 cm) and no-till. The sowing systems under comparison were combined rotovator and shoe coulter seeder and single and double coulters disk seeders. The measurement thinks were yield (seed and straw), nitrogen and phosphorus content. From the measured values were calculated N and P balances which included seed, nutrient and natural deposition. The range of nutrient balances was large during the experiment period. Average nitrogen balance of different tillage methods were: plough 41,3 kg/ha stubble cultivation (S) 40,1 kg/ha and no-till (N) 44,0 kg/ha. Average phosphorus balance were P -0,5, S -0,3 and N 0,1 kg/ha. Average nitrogen balance of different sowing methods were combined rotovator, single disk coulter (R) 43,7 kg/ha and double disk coulter (SK) 44,9 kg/ha. Average phosphorus balance were JK -1,1, R 0,2 and SK 0,3 kg/ha. The weather conditions, especially precipitation, effects strongly on nutrient balances of tillage methods. In dry conditions no-till reached better nutrient balances than the other tillage methods. In other hand, in wet conditions mouldboard plough were better than an average. The weather conditions did not affect nutrient balances of the sowing methods. Furthermore combined rotovator and shoe coulter seeder achieved almost without exception better nutrient balances than others sowing methods regardless of the growing season precipitation.
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(2018)It’s urgent to increase per capita food production to meet the increasing population and its high demand while maintaining environmental stability. Aim to have higher yields as well as reduce harm to the environment, the most difficult problem is how to improve the nutrient use efficiency of plants. Thus using recycling fertilizers is more important in the agriculture practices, it can result in a long-term benefit of plants and environment. In order to explore the impacts of recycling fertilizers on grain yield and on fertilizer nitrogen use efficiency (NUE), an experiment was laid out with the randomized design with 4 replicates of 6 treatments. The objectives were: (1) to test a range of organic fertilizers in arable crop production, especially to find possible differences in nitrogen productivity (2) to find possible differences in nitrogen uptake and in uptake efficiency by rye between variable organic fertilizers and between organic and mineral fertilizers. In the experiment, biogas residual, chemical fertilization, vermicompost, meat and bone meal, sewage sludge compost and unfertilized control were compared. The rates of N application, as kg N/ha varied from one fertilizer to another. This thesis studied impacts on field rye (Secale cereale). There were significant improvements (p < 0.05) in SPAD value, N yield in biomass, total above-ground biomass, and grain yield with the application of the fertilizers, compared with non-fertilized plots. Especially biogas residual, sewage sludge compost and chemical fertilizers were effective. The highest, 33% nitrogen use efficiency was achieved with chemical fertilizer, while sewage sludge compost was the best among organic fertilizers. Recycling fertilizers can produce as high yields of rye as mineral fertilizers, with equal fertilizer nitrogen use efficiency. The critical factor for high yield is the amount of total nitrogen applied, and plant availability of the nitrogen and various organic fertilizers vary in NUE.
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(2014)In Finland 90% of all farmers and 95% of cultivated land are committed to the environmental support program of agriculture. One of the goals of this program is to reduce phosphorus (P) runoff from fields to the water system by limiting the amount of P used in cultivation process. Experiments on P rates allowed in environmental support program and practices of P fertilization were conducted at two sites on ley during 2003-2011. The research aimed to define the effects of annual fertilization, incorporated fertilization and the use of liquid manures on ley yield and P status of the soil. Earlier studies have shown that more water soluble P runs off from leys than from cereal fields and that reserved P hasn’t been sufficient for the whole ley rotation. The experiment consisted of seven different fertilization treatments in which phosphorus treatments were done as incorporate fertilization or annual fertilization. Low or high-release mineral fertilizer was used for incorporate fertilization and either mineral fertilizer or at first mineral fertilizer and liquid manures in next rotation for annual fertilization on the surface. P given as liquid manure was used by three members of the experiment group. The experiment included cultivating ley for seven years and cereal forage for two years. The control group used no P fertilization. P given in fertilization treatments had no effect on ley yields compared with control treatment. Negative P balance in all treatments caused the P rate in ploughed layer of the soil to decrease, however the P levels of surface layer fluctuated greatly regardless of the way P treatments were done. The study indicated that using liquid manures for fertilizing ley cultivations does not pose any greater threat to the environment than mineral fertilizers. However, balanced fertilization, sufficient nitrogen and reducing nitrogen loss of liquid manures are required in order to achieve high yields. The results also indicate that it should be made possible to raise the amount of P fertilization of highly productive leys closer to the zero level of the nutrient balance so that productivity of the soil measured by acid ammonium acetate (PAC) would be preserved. Depending on the other qualities of the soil, this can be done when PAC has reached the value nearby 10 mg l-1. More information on controlling P of the surface soil by means of cultivation management is needed.
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