Nitrogen fertilization value of compost and dried dung in soils with contrasting synthetic nitrogen fertilization histories.

Autor: Langworthy, Adam D., Corkrey, Ross, Rawnsley, Richard P., Raedts, Pieter J. M., Hills, James L.
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Zdroj: Grass & Forage Science; Mar2023, Vol. 78 Issue 1, p184-193, 10p
Abstrakt: If the production of forage for dairy cattle is to become less reliant on synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizers, there is need to better understand and account for the N contributed by on‐farm and imported organic amendments. A 254‐day aerobic soil incubation study (typical length of a growing season in many temperate dairying regions) quantified the inorganic (mineral) N supply from a commercial compost and dried bovine dung (i.e., on‐farm effluent solids). Amendments were incubated in soils with contrasting synthetic N fertilization histories (i.e., 70–100 vs. 350–400 kg N/ha per year) to evaluate if higher synthetic N fertilization histories would reduce the lag time that often exists between organic amendment application and significant release of inorganic N for plant uptake. This proposition was based on previous research, which showed greater soil inorganic N availability accelerating organic amendment decomposition. Our experiment did find that the release of inorganic N from evaluated organic amendments was greater in soils with higher synthetic N fertilization histories, but that this effect was not apparent until after the first 6‐months of this 9‐month experiment. Despite this finding, soils with contrasting synthetic N fertilization histories were not found to differ in their initial inorganic N content, nor microbial activity or other physiochemical properties known to affect N mineralization. Our study highlighted the long‐term vision needed when transitioning from synthetic N fertilizers to organic amendments, with most of the N present in the compost and dried dung remaining unavailable for forage production (i.e., remained bound in organic carbon‐based molecules). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index
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