Efficiency of fall-applied urea for barley: Influence of date of application
Tóm tắt
Fall application of N fertilizers is often inferior to spring application for increasing yields of spring-sown cereal grains. The objective of this study was to determine the influence of date of application on efficiency of fall-applied N. Fall application dates were related to recovery of fall-applied N as mineral N in soil in spring, and related to yield and N uptake for spring-sown barley. Urea at a rate of 50 or 56 kg N ha−1 was incorporated into the soil to a depth of 10 cm. There were 2 or 3 application dates in the fall and one in the spring at sowing. Linear regression indicated recovery of fall-applied N as soil mineral N in spring increased from 30% with urea added on 19 September to 79% with addition on 6 November, but the predictability was low (r = 0.54**). Increase in grain yield, expressed as relative efficiency of fall- versus spring-applied N, was only 23% on 19 September but rose to 76% by 6 November (r = 0.68**). Results were similar for N uptake in grain. Other approaches to predicting the relative efficiency of fall- versus spring-applied N for yield increase were based on fall soil temperature at 5 cm depth, instead of fall calendar date. Soil temperature on the day of N application gave inferior correlation (r = −0.55**), but the use of number of days from application to first day of 0°C soil temperature gave a fairly close correlation (r = −0.77**). Soil degree-days accumulated from application to first day of 0°C soil temperature gave a similarly close correlation (r = −0.78**). In all, the efficiency of fall-applied urea was markedly increased by delaying the application into the late fall; and calendar date, number of days or soil degree-days from application to soil freezing all predicted the efficiency fairly well.
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