Application of Cattle Waste on Sloping Cropland

A field study was carried out to see to what extent manure spreading affects the quality of runoff water from a maize field with a 6 per cent slope. The authors managed to collect runoff on 8 occasions during 3 years. Given mild winter weather, allowing nutrients to leach into the soil, 105 t per he...

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Published in:Journal of dairy science 1981-08, Vol.64 (8), p.1742-1748
Main Authors: Sutton, A. L, Nelson, D. W, Moeller, N. J, Hill, D. L
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:A field study was carried out to see to what extent manure spreading affects the quality of runoff water from a maize field with a 6 per cent slope. The authors managed to collect runoff on 8 occasions during 3 years. Given mild winter weather, allowing nutrients to leach into the soil, 105 t per hectare per annum of liquid dairy slurry or 52 of beet cattle waste could be applied without obvious detrimental trends being apparent from such data. Naturally, coliform counts were higher in runoff samples taken within 2 weeks of a manure application.
ISSN:0022-0302
1525-3198
DOI:10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(81)82758-0