Nutrient cycling in organic farms: stall balance of a suckler cow herd and beef bulls

Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems - Tập 64 Số 3 - Trang 225-230 - 2002
Haas, G.1, Caspari, B.1, Köpke, U.1
1Institute of Organic Agriculture, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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In organic agriculture, the internal farm nutrient cycle must bequantified to ensure high system productivity accompanied by environmentallysound production processes. In contrast to common farm-gate and field balances,budgeting at the stall level is seldom undertaken. When budgeting mixed farmingsystems, a substantial lack of nutrients can be detected in the “forageand straw input – stall – manure output” nutrient flow chain.Therefore, stall balances focus on a central component of whole-farm nutrientbudgets for developing efficient nutrient management strategies. At theexperimental farm for organic agriculture at Wiesengut in Hennef, Germany, allsolid mass flows for a suckler herd and a herd of beef bulls were measured.Relative balance values obtained for dry matter and C (45 to 56%), N (16to 36%), P (−7 to 22.5%), K (0 to 13%) and ash(−4 to 7%) varied over a wide range. Balances are very sensitive tovariations in mass flow and nutrient content for components with high nutrientcontents and/or a large contribution to total mass flow (e.g. manure, silage).In developing strategies to minimise N losses, by reducing N surplus in theration, one must consider, that, in contrast to dairy farms, a suckler herd forbeef production integrated in an organic farm has to adapt to crop productiondemands.

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Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems

Tập 64 Số 3

225-230

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