Fertilization strategies with phosphorus, nitrogen and sulfur in an agricultural rotation under no tillage (Pergamino, Argentina)
- Objective
- Evaluate direct and residual effects of the application of different fertilization strategies with phosphorus, nitrogen and sulfur on crop yields and soil properties evolution in an agricultural rotation under no-tillage
- Data Access Statement
- Available to collaborators only
- Data license
- Don't know
- Data policy
- Don't know
- Organization
- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología AgropecuariaResearch organisation
- Person
- Ing. Agr., MAgrSc Manuel FerrariPrincipal investigatorINTA-ArgentinaEstación Experimental Agropecuaria Pergamino
Site: INTA Pergamino (Argentina)
- Type
- research station field
- Location
- PergaminoBuenos AiresArgentina
- Geographic location
- -33.9578333, -60.5765083333333
- Elevation
- 64 Metres
- Visits permitted?
- Yes
- Visiting arrangements
- Contact: Ing. Agr. Manuel Ferrari (ferrari.manuel@inta.gob.ar)
- History
- Long time under continuous cropping, the last years with no tillage
- Management
- Continuous no tillage
- Soil type
- unknown
- Soil description
- Typic Argiudoll
- Climatic type
- humid subtropical climate
Design period: Split-plot (2001—)
- Design Type
- Split-plot
- Description
- Field experiment with rather large subplot dimensions (7 m x 35 m), conducted under continuous no tillage with a Maize - Full season soybean - Wheat/Double cropped soybean. Four combinations of N and S fertilization are compared in sub-plots
- Number of plots
- 8
- Number of subplots
- 32
- Number of replicates
- 4
- Number of harvests per year
- 2
- Crops
Crop Years grown wheat maize soybeans - Crop Rotation
- Unnamed
- 1maize
- 2soybeans
- 3wheatsoybeans
- Factors
- Factor name
- Factor levels
- phosphate fertilizer exposure In the main plots, two P fertilizer treatments are compared.
Pr
No P fertilizerPa
P fertilizer rate to match nutrient removal in grain- nitrogen fertilizer exposure Applied in the subplots factorially with S.
N0 (0 )
No N fertilizerN1 (100 kgN/ha)
To wheat and maize only.- sulfate fertiliser exposure Applied in the subplots factorially with N
S0 (0 )
No S fertilizerS1 (15 kgS/ha)
To wheat and maize only.
- Measurements
Variable Material Units Frequency Scale Comment Grain yield trait All crops kg/ha annually Soil organic matter Soil g/kg annually pH Soil annually Extractable P Soil mg/kg annually Bray and Kurtz 1-P Nitrate-N Soil mg/kg annually (maize and wheat) Sulphate-S Not specified mg/kg annually (maize and wheat) Potential of N mineralization Soil mg/kg before wheat drilling 7-day anaerobic incubation test N content in grain All crops percent annually S content in grain All crops percent annually P content in grain All crops percent annually thousand grain weight All crops g annually