Injecting Poultry Litter into Orchardgrass Hay

dc.contributor.authorKulesza, Stephanie B.en
dc.contributor.authorMaguire, Rory O.en
dc.contributor.authorThomason, Wade E.en
dc.contributor.authorPote, Dan H.en
dc.contributor.departmentSchool of Plant and Environmental Sciencesen
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-28T13:31:15Zen
dc.date.available2020-04-28T13:31:15Zen
dc.date.issued2016en
dc.description.abstractTraditional surface application of poultry litter leaves nutrients vulnerable to loss through volatilization and runoff. However, injection can increase capture of these nutrients in agricultural fields. Therefore, a field experiment was conducted to determine the effects of poultry litter injection on orchard-grass (Dactylis glomerata L.) hay yield and quality. Poultry litter was injected or surface applied using the Subsurfer poultry litter injector at the recommended agronomic rate (high) and half that rate (low) in 2012 and 2013 in an established field of orchardgrass. Soil was sampled to 15 cm and analyzed for soil nitrate. No significant differences in soil nitrate were detected between treatments. Although not always statistically significant, first cutting orchardgrass yields tended to be greater with surface litter application. Injected treatments had greater protein concentrations than their respective surface treatment, showing greater nitrogen uptake, when protein was weighted by yield. Protein was the same for high surface and low injected treatments showing that similar nitrogen (N) uptake was achieved.en
dc.description.adminPublic domain – authored by a U.S. government employeeen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00103624.2016.1178761en
dc.identifier.eissn1532-2416en
dc.identifier.issn0010-3624en
dc.identifier.issue11en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/97921en
dc.identifier.volume47en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsCC0 1.0 Universalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/en
dc.subjectFertilityen
dc.subjectmanure injectionen
dc.subjectnutrient managementen
dc.subjectpoultry litteren
dc.titleInjecting Poultry Litter into Orchardgrass Hayen
dc.title.serialCommunications in Soil Science and Plant Analysisen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
dc.type.dcmitypeStillImageen

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