Sentences with phrase «nitrogen fertilizer applications»

Soil analysis in 1990 suggested that nitrogen fertilizer application since 1967 had increased the organic carbon content in the surface soil layer by about 3 t / ha in a continuous wheat cropping system.

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In an effort to reduce the amount of nitrogen getting into bays and other water bodies and to protect groundwater, Suffolk County Legislator Bill Lindsay (D - Holbrook) has introduced a measure aimed at reducing the application of fertilizer.

The large - scale application of nitrogenous fertilizers generated via nitrogen fixing is already detectable in sediments remote from civilization, the scientists noted.

Reducing fertilizer application in Africa might seem beneficial globally, yet the result in this region would be even poorer crop yields without any notable reduction in nitrogen pollution; Africa's fertilizer use is already suboptimal for crop yields.

The paper didn't fail to mention what we have reported on before, that corn farming for ethanol using management practices such as commercial fertilizer application, mechanical tillage, and intensive drainage is the most important driver of this increase in nitrogen pollution.

They believed that applications in western Canada were less likely, given the relatively good efficiency of nitrogen fertilizer use in this region (by such techniques as banding).

An agronomist with the company reported to us that their main interest in such fertilizers was for applications in developing and / or tropical countries, where present use of nitrogen fertilizers is, in many cases, relatively inefficient (e.g., rice production).

One possible application could be in zero tillage systems, where coated nitrogen fertilizer might allow considerably higher rates of fertilizer to be applied close to the seed.

Farms with heavy application of nitrogen - rich fertilizers end up emitting NOx through microbial processes.

The application of nitrogen fertilizers accounts for the majority of N2O emissions in the United States.