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NCLE Research
Soil and Crop Management Systems
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NEW! Utilization of processed hog manure separation products in Manitoba
learn more, downloadable pdf summary
- Project leader Mario Tenuta
Reducing whole-farm surpluses of phosphorus and potassium in intensive livestock operations: a case study of dairy farms learn more
- Project leader Kees Plaizier
Developing a calculator for estimating the fertilizer equivalence of different manures
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- Project leader Wole Akinremi
NCLE long term sustainable nutrient management for manure applied to annual and perennial crops: differing livestock manure and crop management scenarios. Started fall 2007
- Project leader Don Flaten
- nutrient dynamics
- soil ecology (Mario Tenuta)
- greenhouse gas emissions (Mario Tenuta)
- pathogen dynamics (Denis Krause)
- weed dynamics (Rob Gulden)
learn more about the Long Term Manure and Crop Management Field Trial
Greenhouse gas emissions as related to forage-crop conversions: Determining agricultural land management practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions learn more, read the Report
- Project leaders Brian Amiro and Mario Tenuta
Downward movement of nitrate and phosphorus from liquid versus solid swine manure in an annual and perennial cropping system learn more, background information
- Project leader Wole Akinremi
Nutrient utilization, excretion and net greenhouse gas emissions from cattle during the overwintering period: Implications for supplementation of low quality forage diets with dried distillers grains (DDGS) learn more
- Project leaders Kim Ominski and Mario Tenuta
Sustainability of grassland systems receiving pig manure on coarse-textured soil: fate of nutrients and pathogens over time. La Broquerie Phase II (2003-2010) learn more
- Project leader Mario Tenuta
Use of high tannin forages to improve sustainability of integrated beef/forage production systems: - forage and cattle productivity, nutrient dynamics, greenhouse gases, pathogens
learn more, read the 2008 Tannin Study interim report
-Research team: Kim Ominski, Mario Tenuta, Denis Krause, Martin Entz, Karin Wittenberg; Tim McAllister, Kathy Buckley, Shannon Scott (Agriculture and AgriFood Canada)
Completed Projects:
Manitoba Beef Producers solid cattle manure management project: Nitrogen and non-nitrogen benefits of manure for crop production learn more. Read the executive summary, and final report
- Project leader Don Flaten
Quantitative assessment and mitigation of total greenhouse gas emissions from livestock manure applied to soil: Determining the impact of diet on net greenhouse gas emissions and developing equations relating nutrient composition of feed, manure and GHG emissions learn more, read the Final Report
- Project leaders Mario Tenuta and Ermias Kebreab
Soil organic carbon in long-term crop rotation and management studies in South Central Manitoba and the Red River Valley: contribution of cropping and management strategies to carbon sequestration. Read the Final Report
- Project leaders Mario Tenuta and Martin Entz
Carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emission benefit of including perennials in annual cropping systems learn more, read the Final Report
- Project leader Mario Tenuta
Greenhouse gas fluxes and budget for an annual cropping system in the Red River Valley, Manitoba, Canada learn more
- Project leader Mario Tenuta; Graduate student Aaron Glenn (PhD. candidate)
This trial conducted at the TGAS MAN site learn more
Effects of manure and formulated N fertilizers on greenhouse gas emissions in the Red River Valley Read the Final Report
- Project leaders Ermias Kebreab and Mario Tenuta
Forms of phosphorus in different manures and their impact on P runoff and leaching losses from manure amended soils Completed February 2009. Read the 2009 Final Report, read the Extension Summary
- Project leaders Don Flaten and Darshani Kumaragamage
Fertilization of forage land with liquid pig manure: Evaluating the potential of using hog manure as a fertilizer for forage crops in beef cattle production. La Broquerie Phase I
(2003-2007) learn more
- Research team: Kim Ominski, Mario Tenuta, Denis Krause, Rick Holley, Don Flaten, Karin Wittenberg
- Greenhouse gas emissions from soil
(Mario Tenuta)
- pathogens
(Denis Krause, Rick Holley)
- nutrient dynamics (Mario Tenuta, Don Flaten)
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