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1. Respiration as a Measure of Soil Health: Challenges and OpportunitiesIn recent years, respiration has become a commonly-used soil health metric. It has been used as a standalone predictor of soil N supplying capacity and in conjunction with other metrics to assess overall soil health. However, the sources of variation underlying respiration itself have not been thoroughly assessed. We show that across growing regions in California, respiration was unable to accurately predict soil N supply. The R2 values were much higher in fields that had received a recently-incorporated... J. Wade, S. Culman, T. Hurriso, W. Horwath, R. Miller |
2. Starter Fertilizer for Row Crop Production Under No-till Conditions in Eastern NebraskaStarter fertilizer application often results in increased corn and sorghum yield under no-till conditions, probably due to lower soil temperatures as compared to tilled soil. Five dryland and 5 irrigated corn trials. and 12 dryland grain sorghum trials were established after soybean in 2002 and 2003 on rolling land in eastern Nebraska with different soil types and topographic positions. Three placement positions were compared: in the seed furrow. over the row. and 2" to the side and 2" deep (2x2).... |
3. Nitrogen Management for Soft Red Winter WheatSoft red winter wheat was grown wi th various rates of four N materials, ammonium sulfate, urea, urea-ammonium nitrate and ESN, for harvest years 2004 through 2007. In all studies 21 lbs N/a was applied at planting. Over th ese four years top wheat yields were produced with 60 or 90 lbs topdress N/a depending on year. Av eraged over the four years 90 lbs N/a resulted in 1.6, 1.0 and 2.2 bu/a more yield than 60 lbs N/a for urea, UAN and ESN. This difference was neither significant nor economical.... |
4. Soil Test Phosphorus Trends in OhioAgriculture is often sited as th e primary factor for high P loads polluting Lake Erie and Ohio's watersheds, but its exact contribu tion is actually unknown. This proj ect evaluated historical soil phosphorus (P) trends in the state of Ohio by collecting historical soil data from the three largest commercial laboratories servicing Ohio to dete rmine if P levels at a county resolution are changing over time. This helps address to what extent widespread over-applications of P (either commercial or... |