Cover crops differentially influenced nitrogen and phosphorus loss in tile drainage and surface runoff from agricultural fields in Ohio, USA.

Journal of Environmental Management
Brittany R HanrahanVinayak S Shedekar

Abstract

Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) loss from crop production agriculture is transported to adjacent and downstream water bodies, resulting in negative environmental impacts including harmful and nuisance algal blooms. Cover crops are a conservation management practice that replaces bare soil with vegetation outside of the cash crop growing season, purportedly reducing N and P loss by increasing water and nutrient demand in agroecosystems. In this study, we compared nitrate (NO3--N), total N (TN), dissolved reactive P (DRP), and total P (TP) loads in subsurface (tile) drainage and surface runoff from fields with cover crop management (CC) and fields without cover crop management (NoCC) using continuous monitoring data from 40 agricultural fields located throughout northcentral Ohio, United States (US). We found that average monthly tile NO3--N and TN loads from CC fields were ~50% less than NoCC fields, while average monthly tile discharge, DRP, and TP loads did not differ between CC and NoCC fields. Cover crops also did not significantly influence average monthly surface metrics. Cover crops reduced monthly totals of tile NO3--N and TN loads by ~1.0-2.6 kg N ha-1 from January to June (winter and spring), coinciding with critical p...Continue Reading

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