DEMONSTRATION PLOT

Pivot in La Melusa

DATA OF THE DEMONSTRATION FIELD


  • Surface: 6.4 has
  • Crop: Maize
  • Type of soil: Deep and clayey
  • Location: La Melusa – Tamarite de Litera (Huesca)
  • Irrigation system: Pivot – Low-pressure irrigation (0.4 bar) – Nozzles 40 cm above the ground (bellow the crop canopy).
  • Irrigation flow rate: 48 m3/h

Results of the first campaign - 2018

  • Type of maize: Cycle 500
  • Sowing: 27/06/2019
  • Base dressing: –
  • Top dressing: Pig slurry liquid fraction –164 kg N-NH4+/ha
  • Yield: 10.900 kg/ha (14%)
  • Ammonia emission reduction related to the reference plot: 64%

Results of the second campaign - 2019

  • Type of maize: Cycle 700
  • Sowing: 27/06/2019
  • Base dressing: 550 kg/ha of superphosphate 18%
  • Top dressing: Pig slurry liquid fraction –203 kg N-NH4+/m3
  • Yield: 13.527 kg/ha (14%)
  • Ammonia emission reduction related to the reference plot: pending

Results of the third campaign – 2020

  • Type of maize:
  • Sowing:
  • Base dressing:
  • Top dressing:
  • Yield:
  • Ammonia emission reduction related to the reference plot:

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