relation: https://orgprints.org/id/eprint/17876/
title: Nitrate leaching from silage maize
creator: Hansen, E.M.
creator: Eriksen, J.
subject:  Nutrient turnover
subject:  Air and water emissions
description: During the last 20 years the area with maize in Denmark has increased dramatically and reached 163,000 ha in 2008. Silage maize is easy to grow, is a suitable fodder for cows and goes well with grass-clover in the diet. This means that silage maize is often found in crop rotations with grass-clover on sandy soils in western Denmark. The ploughing in of grass-clover fields poses a serious risk of increased nitrate leaching on a coarse sandy soil, even when carried out in spring. With increased maize cropping, there is therefore a need for strategies to reduce nitrate leaching after ploughing of grass-clover.In the ICROFS project, OrgGrass, we examined the effect of catch crop and slurry application on nitrate leaching from maize after a spring-ploughed grass-clover.     
date: 2009-11
type: Newspaper or magazine article
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: /id/eprint/17876/1/17876.pdf
identifier:    Hansen, E.M. and Eriksen, J.    (2009) Nitrate leaching from silage maize.   ICROFSnews, November 2009, pp. 4-5.