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Title: Background soil mineral nitrogen contents: AC0116, Herefordshire, 2011
Related Party - Organisation (Author): ADAS
Related Party - Organisation (Funder): Defra
Related Party - Organisation (Funder): Scottish Government
Related Party - Organisation (Funder): Welsh Assembly Government
Related Party - Organisation (Funder): DAERA Northern Ireland
Abstract:
On a commercial farm near Preston Wynne, west England (clay loam topsoil texture), direct N2O-N emissions were measured from replicated (x3) plots (6 x 12 m) following spring applications of manufactured nitrogen (N) fertilisers to winter wheat. A control treatment was included where no N fertiliser was applied. Ammonium nitrate (AN) fertiliser (34.5% N) was applied at 5 different rates; 60, 120, 180, 240 and 300 kg N/ha, and urea fertiliser (46% N) at a rate of 240 kg N/ha, in three split applications (early-March, early-April and early-May). In separate AN and urea treatments, a commercially available nitrification inhibitor was tested; dicyandiamide (DCD) was sprayed at a rate equivalent to 10 kg DCD/ha onto the plots immediately after each N fertiliser application. The N supplied by the DCD was accounted for in the total N application of 240 kg N/ha, which was applied in three splits. A DCD only treatment was also included, where DCD was sprayed onto the soil surface in three split applications giving a total N application of 20 kg/ha. Additionally, AN fertiliser was also applied in five equal splits in mid-March, early-April, mid-April, early-May and mid-May i.e. ‘little and often’. This dataset is of soil mineral nitrogen (SMN) values measured to 0-90 cm depth before experimental treatments were applied.
Subject Keywords: Background soil mineral nitrogen; Arable land; Winter wheat; Clay soils
Geographic Keywords: Herefordshire
Observed Properties: Ammonium-nitrogen; Background soil mineral nitrogen; Experimental blocking; Nitrate-nitrogen; Sampling depth
Parameter: Background soil mineral nitrogen content
Parameter: Block number
Parameter: Depth of soil sampling
Parameter: Soil ammonium-nitrogen content
Parameter: Soil nitrate-nitrogen content

Geographic Extent -     Longitude (West): -2.78     Longitude (East): -2.51     Latitude (South): 52.03     Latitude (North): 52.20

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Phenomenon Time -  Start Date/Time: 2011 End Date/Time:  2011
Result Time: 2011
Valid Time -  Start Date/Time: 2011 End Date/Time:  2011
Feature of Interest: biosphere
Publication Date: 2017-04-05

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	Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Inventory Research Platform - InveN2Ory. Fertiliser experimental site in Herefordshire, 2011