eprintid: 17876
rev_number: 11
eprint_status: archive
userid: 185
dir: disk0/00/01/78/76
datestamp: 2010-10-11 11:27:23
lastmod: 2010-10-15 08:05:23
status_changed: 2010-10-11 11:27:23
type: newsarticle
metadata_visibility: show
item_issues_count: 0
doclang: en
projects: DA3-ORGGRASS
budget: 0
pages: 4-5
docurl: http://www.icrofs.org/pdf/icrofsnews/2009_4.pdf
publicfulltext: TRUE
creators_name: Hansen, E.M.
creators_name: Eriksen, J.
creators_id: Elly.M.Hansen@agrsci.dk
title: Nitrate leaching from silage maize
ispublished: pub
subjects: 4nutrient
subjects: 5emissions
keywords: maize, catch crops, cover crops, ryegrass, nitrate leaching
abstract: 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
date_type: published
publication: ICROFSnews
full_text_status: public
pagerange: 4-5
fp7_project: no
access_rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
citation:    Hansen, E.M. and Eriksen, J.    (2009) Nitrate leaching from silage maize.   ICROFSnews, November 2009, pp. 4-5.        
document_url: /id/eprint/17876/1/17876.pdf