Organic and mineral fertilization management improvements to a double-annual cropping system under humid Mediterranean conditions

Perramon, B.; Bosch‐Serra, Ángela D.; Domingo, Francesc; Boixadera, Jaume

doi:10.1016/j.eja.2016.01.014

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“…The application of organic residues increases microbial activity; soil pH; soil test levels of P, K, Ca, Mg, Zn, and Cu; C content; water retention; the aggregation of soil; and carbon sequestration [9,10]. Animal manures impact the nutrient recovery of crops due to their more variable compositions and differential reaction rates compared to mineral fertilizers [11][12][13][14]. Nutrient recovery depends on a soil's capacity to supply nutrients and a plant's ability to acquire, transport, and remobilize nutrients [15].…”

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Long-Term Effects of Animal Manures on Nutrient Recovery and Soil Quality in Acid Typic Hapludalf under No-Till Conditions

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No-till farming and manure application are means of storing carbon in soil and increasing soil quality. However, the organic fertilization of no-till soils may sustain subtropical agroecosystems for only a limited period until the soil quality declines. The C, N, P, and other nutrient cycles are perturbed due to the nutrient imbalance in manures and their application on the soil surface, which poses a risk for nutrient dispersion into the environment. Long-term N-based manure application also impacts the apparent nutrient recovery (ANR) by crops and, hence, the crop quality. Our objective was to monitor changes in soil quality and to measure nutrient recovery from N-based organic fertilization in a Brazilian agroecosystem. A long-term experiment was established in May 2004 on Typic Hapludalf soil in Southern Brazil. The experiment comprised two periods: 2004–2009 and 2009–2020. The treatments were unfertilized (control), pig slurry, pig deep litter (swine manure and rice husk), cattle slurry, and mineral fertilizer (urea, triple superphosphate, and K chloride). Grain and cover crops were grown. The maize grain yield and oat biomass were used as indicators of productivity. The application of cattle slurry, pig deep litter, and pig slurry increased the grain production by 20% on average compared to mineral fertilization. Organic manuring increased the soil pH by up to one unit, while urea acidified the soil. The highest crop yields were obtained with pig deep litter, which increased the levels of P, K, Ca, Mg, and C in the soil test. Pig deep litter showed the highest N-ANR for the aboveground part of the plants. The ANRs for P, K, Ca, and Mg were also highest when pig slurry had been applied. The ANR values for the micronutrients varied widely among the organic sources but indicated large marginal offtake gains compared to mineral fertilization. The N-based fertilization with animal manures increased the rate of nutrient uptake by plants but led to an accumulation of nutrients in the soil, threatening the sustainability of the system. Manure applications must be monitored regularly to avoid the accumulation of nutrients that could impair the soil quality and become an environmental problem in the future.

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Long-Term Effects of Animal Manures on Nutrient Recovery and Soil Quality in Acid Typic Hapludalf under No-Till Conditions

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“…nitrogen rate; ER, economic return; GS, growing season; N, nitrogen; Navailable, available winter cereal such as barley or triticale is subsequently sown as in other forage production 100 areas (Lloveras, 1987a(Lloveras, , 1987bMonaco et al, 2008;Trindade et al, 2001). Double-101 annual forage crop production is usually associated with dynamic livestock farming 102 where animals are fed with forages and their faeces, usually mixed with straw, are applied 103 to crops as fertilizer (Lloveras, 1987a;Perramon et al, 2016, Raphalen, 1980. Several 104 authors have reported studies of double-annual cropping systems with N organic 105 fertilization in Mediterranean environments (Grignani et al, 2007;Ovejero et al, 2016;106 Perramon et al, 2016;Yagüe and Quílez, 2010).…”

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Nitrogen management in double-annual cropping system (barley-maize) under irrigated Mediterranean environments

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Martínez‐Casasnovas

Santiveri

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European Journal of Agronomy

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Improving nitrogen (N) use efficiency (NUE) is an agricultural necessity, as it can 15 contribute to increasing crop productivity, while decreasing environmental degradation. 16 Double-annual cropping systems can reduce N losses while increasing productivity, and 17 profitability per land unit. The objective of this study was to evaluate annual N 18 fertilization strategies in a double-annual cropping system (barley-maize) under irrigated 19 Mediterranean environments. A three-year N fertilization experiment (2013)(2014)(2015)(2016) was 20 implemented with combinations of different N rates applied to barley (0 and 100 kg N 21 ha −1 ) and maize (0, 100, 200 and 300 kg N ha −1 ). Grain and biomass yields and N content, 22 plant N uptake, residual N, N efficiency, soil organic carbon (SOC) and economic return 23 (ER) of the double-annual barley-maize cropping system were determined. The optimum 24 rate of N to achieve maximum yields in the global barley-maize system was 230-240 kg 25 *Manuscript Click here to view linked References

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“…The high NUEC and NAEC values for treatment 4·2 (Figure a,b) without additional yield increment (Table ) encouraged us to discard this treatment. Furthermore, the double‐cropping acts a buffer system for leaching when the total applied N does not exceed 330 kg N ha −1 , which is close to the critical N fertilization rate for N uptake in barley plus maize (137 + 146 kg N ha −1 respectively) found by Yagüe and Quilez () and close to the average of N maximum uptake of 648 kg N ha −1 (Perramon et al ., ) achieved at the highest productive rotation (2 years). The NUEC increases if this threshold is surpassed.…”

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The efficiency of nitrogen in cattle manures when applied to a double‐annual forage cropping system

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Bosch‐Serra

Domingo‐Olivé³

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Grass and Forage Science

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The use of cattle manure (CM) for fertilization presents challenges for optimizing nitrogen (N) use. Our work aimed to assess N efficiencies, in a 6‐year experiment with three biennial rotations of four crops: oat–sorghum (first year) and ryegrass–maize (second year) in a rainfed humid Mediterranean area of Spain. Fertilization treatments included the following: control (no N), 250 kg mineral N ha−1 year−1 (250MN), three CM rates (supplying 170, 250 and 500 kg N ha−1 year−1) and four treatments where the two lowest CM rates were complemented with either 80 or 160 kg mineral N ha−1 year−1. Treatments were distributed randomly in each of three blocks. Maximum dry‐matter yield (~44–49 t ha−1 rotation−1) was achieved in the third rotation, and only the control and the 170CM yielded significantly less. Within the limitations of the EU Nitrate Directive, the N steady state supply of 170CM always requires a complement of mineral N (80 kg N ha−1) to maximize N agronomic efficiency. The maximum N‐fertilizer replacement value (250CM vs. 250MN) was 0·67, without significant differences between the two treatments in other N‐related efficiency indexes, which indicates that plants took advantage of residual‐N effects. Nitrogen losses by leaching in the 250CM treatment were around 5–7% of the N applied. This reinforces the sustainability of manure recycling in long cropping seasons.

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Organic and mineral fertilization management improvements to a double-annual cropping system under humid Mediterranean conditions

Cited by 12 publications

References 24 publications

Long-Term Effects of Animal Manures on Nutrient Recovery and Soil Quality in Acid Typic Hapludalf under No-Till Conditions

Long-Term Effects of Animal Manures on Nutrient Recovery and Soil Quality in Acid Typic Hapludalf under No-Till Conditions

Nitrogen management in double-annual cropping system (barley-maize) under irrigated Mediterranean environments

The efficiency of nitrogen in cattle manures when applied to a double‐annual forage cropping system

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