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Shallow injection of hog manure into grassland

2000· article· en· W2902352231 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
R. Pastl, M. Michie, J.J. Schoenau

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicBotany and Plant Ecology Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsManureGrasslandEnvironmental scienceHydrology (agriculture)AgronomyGeologyBiologyGeotechnical engineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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With the expected increase in hog production in Saskatchewan, concern has risen regarding the availability of sufficient land to utilize the manure resource to its full potential as a source of plant nutrients. Increases in inorganic fertilizer costs and concerns about the environmental effects of alternative manure disposal methods have stimulated interest in the use of livestock manure as a plant nutrient source (Hoff , Nelson and Sutton, 1981). Liquid hog manure is a valuable plant nutrient source, which is best perceived as a dilute multi-nutrient solution fertilizer blend. Therefore, application rates in the order of several thousand liters per hectare are required to meet the nutrient requirements of the crop versus 90 to 200 liters per hectare for concentrated commercial solution fertilizer blends (Schoenau, 1997). Ammonia-N losses from livestock manure have been reported to range from 10 to 90% when surface-applied to the soil (Vanderholm, 1975). Hoff, Nelson and Sutton, (1981) showed that 14 to 65% of the ammonia-N was lost over a 3.5 day period, when the hog manure was broadcast on the soil surface. However, if the hog manure was injected, the ammonia-N losses were reduced to 2.5% or less. Hoff, Nelson and Sutton, (1981) suggested that injecting hog manure into the soil would maximize the nutrient value of the hog manure as a fertilizer and would minimize surface water and atmospheric N contamination. There currently is little information on the plant and soil response to injection of hog manure into grasslands on the Canadian prairies. The objectives of the study are (1) to evaluate the practicality of shallow injection of hog manure into typical grassland stands in Saskatchewan (2) to determine the effect hog manure has on forage yield, forage quality and forage nitrate levels at various application rates (3) and to determine the effect on soil nutrients under various hog manure application rates.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.364
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.186
Teacher spread0.177 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations7
Published2000
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