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Optimale N-bemesting zomertarwe : resultaten onderzoek 2008
In opdracht van LTO en het ministerie van LNV is PPO in 2007 onderzoek gestart naar de optimale N-bemesting van zomertarwe. Hiertoe zijn bemestingsproeven aangelegd op drie klei- en drie zandlocaties met de bedoeling de benodigde datasets te verzamelen om een eventuele aanpassing van het bestaande stikstofbemestingsadvies mogelijk te maken. In 2008 is dit onderzoek voortgezet op 2 klei- en 2 zandlocaties. In dit rapport worden de resultaten van het onderzoek in 2008 weergegeven
Aanpassing N-bemestingsadvies zomertarwe
Door het ministerie van LNV en het Productschap Akkerbouw is aan PPO de opdracht verleend om na te gaan in hoeverre er aanleiding bestaat om voor zomertarwe het stikstofbemestingsadvies in de ‘Adviesbasis voor de bemesting van akkerbouw- en vollegrondsgroentegewassen’ te actualiseren. De conclusie die in deze studie wordt getrokken, is een aanbeveling voor aanpassing van het bemestingsadvies. De analyse is uitgevoerd met de datasets die beschikbaar zijn gekomen door het uitvoeren van bemestingsproeven op zand- en kleigrond in 2007 en 2008. De economisch optimale N-gift is afhankelijk van de kosten voor stikstof en de telersprijs voor tarwe. Zowel de prijs voor stikstof als voor tarwe varieerde de laatste twee jaar sterk. Kunstmest is echter in verhouding duurder geworden dan tarwe, waardoor de optimale economische N-gift lager ligt dan twee jaar geleden toen het onderzoek van start ging. Ondanks deze verandering in prijsverhouding was de economisch optimale N-gift in de proeven hoger dan het huidige advies. Conclusie is daarom dat het bestaande advies geactualiseerd dient te worden. Voorgesteld wordt om voor alle grondsoorten het N-bemestingsadvies met 20 kg N/ha te verhogen
Within-Row Irrigation Saves Water on Croplands
Excessive water use and soil erosion from furrow irrigation are two of the most serious
management problems on irrigated silt loam soils in southern Idaho, U.S.A. These problems
are especially serious on croplands planted to dry beans. In conventional bean
production, fields are irrigated before planting to wet the entire soil surface. It is not
unusual for farmers to apply as much as 30 cm of water over the entire field during a
single preplanting irrigation.
Results from this study showed that planting beans in the bottom of pre-irrigated
furrows without soaking completely between the furrows reduced preplanting water
application by 60%. The continuing within-row treatments reduced irrigation water use
by 42% compared to conventional irrigation practices. Total bean yields on the preplanting,
within-row treatments were not significantly different from the conventional
treatments
A Buried Drain Erosion and Sediment Loss Control System
The lower ends of most furrow irrigated fields have become
convex shaped, meaning the slope progressively increases
from a point 20 to 60 feet from the field end to the
tailwater ditch. This increasing slope is the result of maintaining
tailwater ditches too deep and keeping them cleaned
so runoff from these fields is not restricted. The process of
forming a convex field end continues yearly at an increasing
rate. With each passing year, the slope at the end of the
field becomes greater so that runoff water runs faster and
has more energy to erode. Over many years, large quantities
of soil have been lost from the lower ends of furrow
irrigated fields. Field ends 1.5 to 2.0 feet lower than the furrow
elevation 20 to 60 feet upslope are common. Much of
the soil loss is from the lower ends of fields
A Buried Pipe System for Controlling Erosion and Sediment Loss on Irrigated Land
A new system comprised of a buried pipe, with riser inlets from the
surface at intervals, along the lower end of furrow-irrigated fields was
designed, installed, and evaluated on 21 fields to determine its effectiveness
as an erosion and sediment loss control system for irrigated land.
The system utilizes small sediment collection ponds with the riser inlets
from the buried pipe serving as overflow outlets for the ponds. This
system corrects convex-shaped field ends caused by erosion and solves
an energy related erosion problem common on furrow-irrigated land.
During the first season, these system removed from 80 to 9S% of the
sediment from runoff water and collected from 4.1 to 40.5 Mg ha-¹
from 12 fields on irrigated land where detailed data were collected. All
systems performed without problems and all convex end problems except
one were corrected the first season. After the convex ends are corrected,
the system continues to reduce sediment loss. This new system eliminates
the tailwater ditch, puts more land into crop production, reduces weed
problems, and prevents the usual problems associated with a wet tailwater
ditch. The buried pipe erosion and sediment loss control system
is a major advance in the control of erosion and sediment loss on irrigated
land
Crop sequences and conservation tillage to control irrigation furrow erosion and increase farmer income
Five years of research show that there are many benefits to conservation tillage
on furrow-irrigated land. Benefits are enhanced when cropping sequences are altered to
accommodate the fewest number of tillage operations over the entire cropping sequence.
Results showed that soil erosion can be reduced 47 to 100 percent, crop yields can be
sustained, and farmer net income can be increased an average of more than $125 ha-1
each year over a 5-year cropping sequence
Furrow Erosion and Sediment Losses on Irrigated Cropland
Sediment losses from furrow erosion on irrigated cropland ranged from 0.5
to 142 metric tons per hectare (0.2 to 63.0 tons/acre) on 49 Idaho fields during one irrigation
season. Field slope varied from 1.0 to 5.0 percent and furrow stream size from 11.3
to 49.9 liters per minute (3.0 to 13.2 gal/min). Erosion increased sharply on row-cropped
fields when slopes exceeded 1.0 percent. Furrow erosion can be reduced by: (a) reducing
furrow stream size when water reaches the furrow ends, (b) avoiding irrigation of row
crops on slopes that are too steep, (c) keeping the tailwater ditch shallow and the water in
it moving slowly, (d) installing tailwater control systems, and (e) alternate-furrow irrigation.
Sediment losses from irrigated lands can also be reduced markedly by planting
vegetative filter strips and using sediment retention basins. Total phosphorus losses were
reduced in proportion to the reduction in sediment losses
Performance of TCP with multiple Priority Classes
We consider the dimensioning problem for Internet access links carrying TCP traffic with two priority classes. To this end, we study the behaviour of TCP at the flow level described by a multiple-server Processor Sharing (PS) queueing model with two customer classes, where the customers represent flows generated by downloading Internet objects; the sojourn times represent the object transfer times. We present closed-form expressions for the mean sojourn times for high-priority customers and approximate expressions for the mean sojourn times of low-priority customers. The accuracy of the model is demonstrated by comparing results based on the PS model with "real" TCP simulation results obtained by the well-known Network Simulator. The experimental results demonstrate that the model-based results are highly accurate when the mean object size is at least 10 IP-packets, and the loss rate is negligible
Furrow Erosion Reduces Crop Yields
Furrow irrigation erosion redistributes topsoil within
fields and causes serious topsoil losses from farms. Erosion
occurs on the upper portions of fields where the
furrow streams are largest and the energy greatest. The
furrow stream must be large enough at the head end of
the furrow to supply sufficient water for infiltration over
the entire furrow length
The Effect of Furrow Irrigation Erosion on Crop Productivity
Furrow irrigation erosion redistributes topsoil by eroding upper
ends of fields and depositing sediment on downslope portions causing
a several fold topsoil depth difference on individual fields. This
investigation was conducted to evaluate the effects of this erosion
and deposition process on crop yield and to develop crop yield-topsoil
depth relationships. Studies were conducted on 14 farmer-operated
fields and on field plots with a continuous topsoil depth gradient
from 10 to 66 cm. Severe erosion on the upper ends of fields combined
with tillage has mixed light-colored subsoil with topsoil and
caused these areas to become whitish in color. Crop yields have
sharply decreased on these whitish areas compared to areas where
the topsoil depth is 38 cm, or the original depth. Yields were increased,
but less sharply, where sediment deposition has increased
topsoil depth above 38 cm up to a depth of about 66 cm. Yield-topsoil
depth relationships followed the equation Y = a+b 1nX with
significant correlation coefficients for wheat (Triticum aestivum L.),
sweet corn (Zea mays L.), barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), alfalfa
(Medicago sativa L.), dry beans (Phaseolus sap.) and sugarbeets (Beta
vulgaris L.). Yield decreases per unit loss of topsoil were greatest
for wheat and sweet corn and least for sugarbeets. Yields on whitish
soil areas could not be improved more than indicated by these relationships
by adding additional fertilizer phosphorus or potassium
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