Claim · model-written summary
Improved fallow management was associated with lower nitrogen water quality risk.
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Verbatim
e0“They included improving fallow management and reducing tillage and compaction, practices that have been promoted for production rather than N discharge benefits.”
e1“agronomic practices that could be promoted to reduce water quality risk while maintaining or improving yields of sugarcane crops”
Title
Peter J. Thorburn; Jody S. Biggs; Kevin McCosker; et al. Journal of Environmental Management 2022. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115932
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Method / resource The NiLRI metric expresses nitrogen discharge risk as fertilizer applied per cane yield.
- Method / resource NiLRI values from experiments and commercial crops spanned all seven risk classes.
- Association Practices most influential for NiLRI had little direct impact on nitrogen management.
- Association Reduced tillage and compaction were associated with lower nitrogen water quality risk.