Effects of Wheat Straw, Lespedeza Sericea Hay, and Farmyard Manure, as Soil Mulches, on the Conservation of Moisture and the Production of Nitrates

Mooers, C. A.; Washko, J. B.; Young, J. B.

doi:10.1097/00010694-194810000-00007

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“…Martínez et al (2004) showed that the manure was effective on sediment conservation at rainfall intensity of 80 mm h −1 . This disagreed with Mooers et al (1948) who showed that the manure had less impact in soil conservation. The relationships between sediment concentration and soil loss with rainfall intensity in control and treated plots with manure were en-452 S. H. R. Sadeghi et al: Reducing soil loss using organic and inorganic amendments tirely significant with R 2 = 0.99 (p ≤ 0.01) and linear-direct and exponential-direct, respectively (Fig.…”

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Reducing sediment concentration and soil loss using organic and inorganic amendments at plot scale

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Abstract. Various organic and inorganic mulches are used for soil conservation purposes, the effectiveness of which on soil characteristics has not been comprehensively considered from different aspects. The present study surveys the efficiency of straw mulch, manure and TA-200 polyacrylamide with respective rates of 500, 300 and 50 g m −2 in changing sediment concentration and soil loss. The experiments were conducted for sandy-loam soil taken from a summer rangeland, the Alborz Mountains, northern Iran. The experiments were performed under laboratory conditions with simulated rainfall intensities of 30, 50, 70 and 90 mm h −1 and a slope of 30 %. The results showed that the straw mulch decreased soil erosion at rate of 45.60 % compared to the control plots and performed better than manure (8.98 % reduction) and PAM (4.74 % reduction). The results showed that the maximum reduction in sediment concentration and soil loss for all soil amendments occurred at the rainfall intensity of 90 mm h −1 with the rates of 58.69 and 63.24 % for straw mulch, 14.65 and 13.14 % for manure and 20.15 and 23.44 % for TA-200.

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Section: Manure Mulchmentioning

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Reducing sediment concentration and soil loss using organic and inorganic amendments at plot scale

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“…Straw mulches often contaminate the soil with weed seeds and deplete the seedbed nitrogen due to their high carbon-to-nitrogen (C/N) ratio. Organic materials that have a high C/N ratio such as grain straw may temporarily immobilize soil nitrogen as they decompose (Mooers et al 1948), although humified organic matter accumulated from long-term straw mulching sometimes results in net mineralization of N (Ferguson 1957). Natural mulch harbors pests such as termites, slugs, snails, earwigs, etc.…”

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Polyethylene and biodegradable mulches for agricultural applications: a review

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“…The straw mulch can protect soil moisture (Ji and Unger, 2001) and this conditioner adds organic matter to soil (García-Orenes et al, 2010), has potential in runoff reduction (Poesen and Lavee 1991) and soil erosion controls (Morgan, 1986;Gholami et al, 2016a). The wheat residual may increase cultivation amount, improving at the same time infiltration, reducing runoff and soil erosion; as well as increasing water storage capacity (Mannering and Meyer, 1963;Shi et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2017) and decreasing evaporation (Mooers et al 1948). Shi et al (2013) studied the effect of straw mulch on runoff and soil loss with rates of 15, 30, 50, 70 and 90%.…”

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Impact of Wheat Residue on Soil Erosion Processes

Kavian

Gholami

Mohammadi

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Soil erosion is one of the key challenges in soil and water conservation. Vegetation that covers soil and organic and inorganic mulch is very useful for the control of erosion processes. This study examined treatment with wheat residual (as agriculture mulch) on infiltration, time to runoff, runoff coefficient, sediment concentration and soil erosion processes. The study has been conducted for sandy-loam soil taken from summer rangeland (Northern Iran) with simulated rainfall intensities of 50 and 100 mm h-1. The experiment was conducted in slopes of 30% in three replications with two amounts of wheat residual of 50 and 90 %. The results showed that conservation percent of soil erosion for wheat residual 50 and 90% was 61.68 and 73.25%, respectively (in rainfall intensity of 50 mm h-1). Also, the conservation percent of soil erosion for wheat residual of 50 and 90% cover was 70.68 and 90.55, respectively (in rainfall intensity of 100 mm h-1). It was concluded that the conservation treatments could reduce runoff coefficient, sediment concentration and soil erosion and increase the time to runoff and infiltration coefficient. This effect was significant on time for infiltration, sediment concentration and soil erosion variables (R2=0.99), time to runoff and runoff coefficient variables (R2=0.95). The interaction effects of rainfall intensity and soil conservation was significant for sediment concentration and soil erosion variables (R2=0.99).

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Effects of Wheat Straw, Lespedeza Sericea Hay, and Farmyard Manure, as Soil Mulches, on the Conservation of Moisture and the Production of Nitrates

Cited by 15 publications

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Reducing sediment concentration and soil loss using organic and inorganic amendments at plot scale

Reducing sediment concentration and soil loss using organic and inorganic amendments at plot scale

Polyethylene and biodegradable mulches for agricultural applications: a review

Impact of Wheat Residue on Soil Erosion Processes

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