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                                            [authorname] => Lucille Brown
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                                            [title] => Soil Science MSc Thesis Defence
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
9:00 A.M.
Room 2E17, Agriculture Building
 
Novel organic amendments to improve soil fertility
and plant nutrition
 
Jocelyn Stefankiw, MSc candidate
 
There is worldwide demand for organic materials that would be suitable for addition to soils to improve fertility and thereby enhance the production of annual crops and forages. The overall objective of the work described in this research was to determine the fertility and plant nutrition benefits that may be realized by adding novel amendments to soil. Three separate studies were conducted: 1) a study on the effect of adding different types of DDGS-fed cattle manure on canola growth and nutrition in the growth chamber, 2) a field reclamation study with alfalfa pellets and biochar added to disturbed soils near a potash mine, and 3) a growth-chamber study on use of biochar to improve canola growth and the use efficiency of added fertilizer nutrients on two contrasting Saskatchewan soils.
In the DDGS-fed manure study, the wheat-based DDGS-fed composted cattle manure added the most nutrient per unit weight of added manure of the different manure sources evaluated and toxicity effects were observed at high rates of application (180 and 240 t ha-1). In the reclamation field trial, there was increased biomass of tall wheatgrass on soil amended with alfalfa pellets that is attributed to increased soil N availability, as also shown in increased soil NO3-N contents. The biochar treatment on the berm resulted in increased soil organic carbon content. Biochar added to two Saskatchewan agricultural soils under controlled environment conditions revealed no significant effect of biochar, without or with fertilizer, on the canola yield, nutrient concentration, or fertilizer N recovery by canola grown on the two soils. All three types of organic amendments studied have different characteristics and potential for enhancing soil fertility, plant growth, and nutrition. Further field-scale research on the application of these amendments is required to determine the long-term effects on plant growth and nutrition.
 
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                                            [title] => M.Sc. Defense Seminar
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M.Sc. Defense Seminar
Rajendram Janardhanan
"Behavioural Analysis of Pigs when Presented with Pea Diets"
Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 9:00 a.m.
2E25 AGRI
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M.Sc. Defense Seminar
Rajendram Janardhanan
"Behavioural Analysis of Pigs when Presented with Pea Diets"
Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 9:00 a.m.
2E25 AGRI
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                                            [enddate] => 2012-05-31 13:41:22
                                            [date] => 1338303622
                                            [category] => Animal and Poultry Science
                                            [link] => http://agbio.usask.ca/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=180&cntnt01returnid=2645
                                            [titlelink] => M.Sc. Defense Seminar
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