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Cooperation in manure-based biogas production networks: An agent-based modeling approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Biogas production from manure has been proposed as a partial solution to energy and environmental concerns. However, manure markets face distortions caused by considerable unbalance between supply and demand and environmental regulations imposed for soil
Fraccascia, Luca   +3 more
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Strategies to reduce nutrient pollution from manure management in China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
As the demand for livestock products continues to increase in China, so too does the challenge of managing increasing quantities of manure. Urgent action is needed to control point source (housing, storage and processing) and diffuse (field application ...
Bai, Zhaohai   +7 more
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Bacterial Community in Soils Following Century-Long Application of Organic or Inorganic Fertilizers under Continuous Winter Wheat Cultivation

open access: yesAgronomy, 2020
Fertilization is one of the most common agricultural practices to achieve high yield. Although microbes play a critical role in nutrient cycling and organic matter decomposition, knowledge of the long-term responses of the soil bacterial community to ...
Xiufen Li   +4 more
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The Use of Stable Zinc Isotope Soil Labeling to Assess the Contribution of Complex Organic Fertilizers to the Zinc Nutrition of Ryegrass

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Manure and sewage sludge are known to add significant amounts of zinc (Zn) and other metals to soils. However, there is a paucity of information on the fate of Zn that derives from complex organic fertilizers in soil–plant systems and the contribution of
Bo-Fang Yan   +3 more
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Economic aspects of manure management and practices for sustainable agriculture in Turkey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Turkish livestock sector plays very important role in the Turkish GDP and the use of manure affects the environment but the farming sector want the farmers to employ the use of more integrated manure practice.
Buysse, Jeroen   +3 more
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Effects of Organic and Inorganic Fertilizer Application on Growth, Yield, and Grain Quality of Rice

open access: yesAgriculture, 2020
Nutrient management and fertilizer application are influential elements for high yield and preferred grain quality. Negligible information is available regarding fertilizer application in the paddy fields in Afghanistan.
Kifayatullah Kakar   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Manures and their Uses” [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1890
ALLOW me to thank the well-known writer “W.” for his review of the above-mentioned book. “W.” does not hold with the view that “farmyard manure is erroneously supposed to contain all the necessary plant-foods required for the growth of plants.” I believe, with M. Ville and others, that “the farmer who uses nothing but farmyard manure exhausts his land.”
openaire   +4 more sources

Chemical Extraction of Phosphorus from Dairy Manure and Utilization of Recovered Manure Solids

open access: yesAgronomy, 2020
Repeated land application of dairy manure can increase soil phosphorus above crop requirements because of manure’s low nitrogen (N) to phosphorus (P) ratio (N:P < 4:1). This soil P build-up can lead to off-site P transport and impairment of surface water
Ariel A. Szogi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Participatory evaluation of improved pastureland interventions in Ayba pastureland, South Tigray: Implication for pastureland enhancement

open access: yesCogent Food & Agriculture, 2020
The participatory evaluation was conducted to assess the forage yield of the natural pasture in degraded grazing land through the application of urea, manure and Vicia sativa over sown with farmers’ practices at the Emba Alaje district.
Tesfay Atsbha   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Management Drives Differences in Nutrient Dynamics in Conventional and Organic Four-Year Crop Rotation Systems

open access: yesAgronomy, 2020
Application of exogenous N fertilizers provides agronomic benefits but carries environmental liabilities. Managing benefits and liabilities of N-based fertilizers in conventional (CNV) and organic (ORG) cropping systems might be improved with better ...
Sharon L. Weyers   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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