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Cattle diet and winter plant growth effects on nitrogen losses from cattle urine patches
(Springer Nature, 2020-04-01)
Nitrogen (N) losses from agricultural land is a major environmental concern, as N leaching can cause eutrophication and nitrous oxide (N₂O) is a greenhouse gas. A lysimeter experiment was undertaken to investigate the ...
Testing large area lysimeter designs to measure leaching under multiple urine patches
(Taylor and Francis Group on behalf of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2017)
A novel, large area, repacked rectangular shipping container lysimeter (13.8 m² ) was compared with those from undisturbed monolith barrel lysimeters (c. 3.1 m² ), to evaluate their utility for measuring leaching under ...
Production, profit and nitrogen flows in irrigated dairy systems representing different industry development pathways: The Pastoral 21 experience in Canterbury
(Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2020-08-26)
Future development pathways for irrigated dairy farms in Canterbury operating under stricter nitrogen (N) loss limits were compared in two farmlets over four years. One represented the traditional pathway of intensification ...
Effects of adding readily available carbon to soil on nitrogen losses from cattle urine patches
(Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2020)
A lysimeter experiment was carried out to investigate the effects of applying readily available carbon (12 or 24 t sucrose ha−1) to soil on nitrogen (N) losses from cattle urine patches. The carbon (C) was readily available ...
Effect of timing of cattle urine deposition and pasture composition on nitrogen leaching losses
(Wiley on behalf of British Society of Soil Science, 2020-09-20)
A lysimeter experiment using undisturbed monoliths from a stony silt loam soil was carried out to quantify the effects different pasture types on N losses from urine applied to soil on different dates. Three pasture types ...
Organic matter amendments to soil can reduce nitrate leaching losses from livestock urine under simulated fodder beet grazing
(Elsevier Masson, 2019-02-15)
This research tested the hypothesis that incorporation of Carbon-Rich Organic Matter Amendments (CROMA) into bare soil after winter forage grazing would immobilise urinary-nitrogen (N) and reduce nitrate-N (NO₃⁻-N) leaching ...
The effect of four different pasture species compositions on nitrate leaching losses under high N loading
(Wiley on behalf of the British Society of Soil Science, 2014-03)
Nitrate (NO₃⁻) leaching can cause elevated concentrations of NO₃⁻-N in water, which can have adverse impacts on water quality and human health. In grazed pasture systems, most of the NO₃⁻-N leaching occurs beneath animal ...