Subsoil nutrition - residual benefits?

2004

Research organisaton
Funding source

Trial details

Researcher(s) Sam Doudle
Year(s) 2004
Contributor South Australian Research and Development Institute
Trial location(s) Eyre Peninsula, SA
Subsoil nutrition - residual benefits? locations
Aims

To determine if applying fertiliser to the subsoil gives any residual benefits to crops in subsequent years.

Key messages
  • Trace elements applied to the soil (either shallow at seeding or deep prior to seeding) two years previously benefitted wheat at a clay spread site.
  • Accross all sites and six years of measurements there were no measurable residual responses to deep placed nutrients.
Lead research organisation N/A
Host research organisation South Australian Research and Development Institute
Trial funding source GRDC UA00087
Related program More Profit from Crop Nutrition
Acknowledgments N/A
Other trial partners Not specified

Method

Crop type Cereal (Grain): Wheat
Treatment type(s)
  • Soil Properties: Type
Trial type Experimental
Trial design Unknown

Eyre Peninsula 2004

Sow date Not specified
Harvest date Not specified
Plot size Not specified
Plot replication Not specified
Fertiliser

Phosphoric acid, urea, zinc, manganese and copper sulphate, ammonium nitrate

Other trial notes

Doudle S (2005) Subsoil nutrition - residual benefits? In: Eyre Peninsula Farming Systems 2004 Summary pp 118-120 Eds A Cook, G Secomb, S Doudle, N Wilhelm, N Cordon, M Bennet, J Hancock, L Guerin, WOOF Design and Print, Port Lincoln, Australia.

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Trial last modified: 09-10-2019 11:38am AEST