FINAL Exam, Monday, April 30, 8:00 am
Daily Worksheet
CNN Arithmetic
The Food Issue
NY Times , Damaging the earth to feed its people
Ug99, a threat to food security hindustantimes
GLOBAL WARMING
Global child deaths plunge by 12,000/day (September 2011)
Luxury Consumption (D.B. Fowler)
Quiz 5 Answer
A. Plant and Soil Sciences Proficiency Exam
(PASS answers)
FRIDAY 1.
Research gone wrong
(Abstract Example, due January 18)
ASA Instructional (step by step)
Rationale
1. fundamental reason(s) serving to account for something.
2. a statement of reasons.
3. reasoned exposition of principles.
Truth
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth,
Scientific Oath
I promise to...
PhD, License to practice...
Nitrogen Fertilizer Rates
JD FURROW 2012
Class Reading (2012)
1. The Great Corn Con, by Steven Rattner
2. Science (Is there a road ahead for Cellulosic Ethanol?) August 2010
3. Science Humans are driving extreme
weather, time to prepare
Science 9 Billion
4. Seasonal and long-term changes in nitrate-nitrogen content of well water in Oklahoma. 1997. J. Environmental Quality, 26:1632-1637.
5. Central America Soils
6. Crain_OM_OC_Conversion
7. ASA view on global warming, 2011
8. Tillage and soil carbon sequestration - What do we really know? (Agric. Ecosystems & Env.)
9. Nitrogen accumulation in shoots as a function of growth stage of corn and winter wheat. J. Plant Nutr. 33:165-182.
10. World Energy Project, UNL
11. Hydrogen Ion Buffering, Ferguson
Homework 1 (Crain Answer)
12. R.H. Moll, E. Kamprath, W. Jackson. 1982.Analysis and Interpretation of Factors Which Contribute to Efficiency of Nitrogen Utilization. Agron. J. 74:562-564.
13. Bray, Confirmation of the Nutrient Mobility Concept of Soil - Plant Relationships. 1962.
14. Roger Bray. A Nutrient Mobility Concept of Soil-Plant Relationships. 1953.Bray's Mobility Concept (Tracy Wilson, Alex Cumbie)
15. NEW Abstract Example
16. NPR Audio of Dr. Borlaug
17. Economic and Agronomic Impacts of Varied Philosophies of Soil Testing
18. Class Presentation (Agriculture)
19. Interview
One Page Plan (due March 26)
Fertilization Based on Sufficiency, Build-up and Maintenance Concept (Macnack et al.)
20. Water Crisis in India
21. Ammonia Loss, Montana, Rick Engel (page 9)
Agrotain (NBPT, N butyl thiophosphoric acid triamide)
22. Perennial Solution (National Geographic)
23. Class Vision Proposals
24. March shatters Temperature Records
25. The Food Issue
26. Generalized Algorithm
1. Introduction
2.
Bias in Research
Error example1
Error
example2
3. Organic Carbon (Ranney Paper, OC conversion)
Brazil
C-Stocks
1.
N fertilizers decrease soil organic C,
Khan and Mulvaney
2. JEQ Article, Khan and
Mulvaney
or
High N rates can increase soil organic C,
Nutrient Content of Crops, USDA
4.
History of Yield
Potential
5. Nitrogen
6. Nitrogen Use Efficiency (Review)
(Soybean N Balance, Andres Patrignani, Romulo Lollato.)
7. Theoretical Applications
R.A. Olson, Soil Testing
8.
Nitrogen Fertilization Optimization Algorithm and the use of CV's
SBNRC-IOWA, Russ Linhardt
Concept, CV-RI
CV RI Homework
Examples/homework
NCR-rate recommendations, 1 Bundy
1.
Lahoma 502 (updated)
2.
Magruder
3.
Stillwater 222 (updated)
9.
Biometrical Applications (class survey)
Stability Analysis (excel)
Stability Analysis 502
10.
Radioisotopes
supplemental lecture
Radiation dose chart (T. Wilson)
a
11. P Solubility.
a.
Syers (Efficiency of soil and
fertilizer phosphorus use)
b.
Johnston
(New approach for PUE)
REVIEW
Andres Patrignani- Wheat yield plateau
12. Biofools
13. Ethanol
13. Resurgent Forests Can be Greenhouse Sponges (Science)
14. Soil Fertility and
Hunger in Africa
15.
Cereal nitrogen use efficiency in Sub Saharan Africa. J. Plant Nutr.
32:2107-2122
16.
Corn Farmers Making Money
16.
The Magruder Plots, Untangling the Puzzle. (Agron J. 1191-1198)
17. The Story of Wheat (from the Economist.com)
How can N2O emissions be reduced?
NEWTON
Inverse Distance Square Law
Isaac Newton and 2060
Newton Accomplishments
MS and PhD Preliminary Exam: Prelim
Homework: Estimate cereal P use efficiency, developed and developing world (Improving NUE, 1999)
Assumptions:
1. %
consumption of P fertilizer for cereals
2. cereal grain P values
3. P removed in cereals coming from the soil
Removal of P by field crops (Cornell)
Nutrient Removal (IPNI)
Student Nutrient Cycles
University of Illinois, Basic Mineral Nutrition
First
Hour Exam 2004
Second Hour Exam 2002
FINAL
EXAM 2002, KEY
FINAL
EXAM 2004, KEY
YIELD FIT Program (exe file)
TEXT BOOK
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.””
Research and Development Division
http://www.nass.usda.gov/research/avhrr/avhrrmnu.htm
Nitrogen Rich Strip (on left), Jason Lawles, NTech Industries
C
---------------------From 2010------------
1.Estimated Increase in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Due to worldwide
decrease in Soil Organic Matter
Great Pacific Garbage Patch Great Pacific Garbage Patch 2
3. Nitrogen Balance in the Magruder Plots Following 109 Years in Continuous Winter Wheat J. Plant Nutr. 26:1561-1580. (pdf)
4. Seasonal and long-term changes in nitrate-nitrogen content of well water in Oklahoma. 1997. J. Environ. Qual 26:1632-1637.
5. Tritium
11.
Effect of applied N on organic C, long-term experiments.
12.
Soil Plant Inorganic N Buffering
Agron J 1995 87: 827–834 (summary
page)
268mm = 10.5in
15.
Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency for
Cereal Production Agron.
J. 91:357-363
M.S. and Ph.D Proficiency Exam
March 11, 2010
Influence of Cation Exchange Capacity and Depth of Incorporation on Ammonia Volatilization from Ammonium Compounds Applied to Calcareous Soils (Fenn and Kissel)
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Seasonal and long-term changes in nitrate-nitrogen content of well water
in Oklahoma. 1997. J. Environmental Quality,
26:1632-1637. (consult the actual article)
b. Use of Stability Analysis for Long-Term Soil Fertility Experiments. Agron J. 85:159-167
Amino Sugar Papers
a. Farm
Journal
b.
Khan, Mulvaney, et al.
c. Khan, Mulvaney, 2001 SSSAJ
1.
Mid-Season Prediction of Wheat Grain Yield Potential Using Plant, Soil,
and Sensor Measurements. J. Plant Nutr.
2. Magruder Plots, Nitrogen Balance following 109 years of continuous winter wheat
3. Optical Sensor Based Algorithm for Crop N Fertilization
6.
Estimated land area increase of agricultural ecosystems to sequester
excess atmospheric carbon dioxide
7. Estimated Increase in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Due to Worldwide
Decrease in Soil Organic Matter. Commun. Soil Sci. Plant Anal.
30:1713-1719
8. Soil Plant Inorganic N Buffering (web link)
9. Francis, D.D., J.S. Schepers, and M.F. Vigil. 1993. Post-anthesis nitrogen loss from corn. Agron. J. 85:659-663.
10. Ammonia Volatilization from Surface-Applied Urea: Effect of Hydrogen Ion Buffering Capacity (Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 48:578)
11. Reseeding the Green Revolution (Science)
12. The NO2-Flux Conundrum (Science)
13. Nitrogen Oxide Pollution May Spark Seeds' Growth (Science)
14. Global Population and the Nitrogen Cycle (Scientific American)
15. Forecasting Agriculturally Driven Global Environmental Change (Science)
16. Soil Fertility and Hunger in Africa (Science)
17. NSF Report Paints a Global Picture (Science)
18. Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency for Cereal Production (Agron. J. 91:357-363)
| AMBROSE, SAMANTHA K | SAMANTHA.AMBROSE@OKSTATE.EDU |
| AMEDY, BAYAR M | BAYAR.AMEDY@OKSTATE.EDU |
| BELL, PATRICK RYAN | PAT.BELL@OKSTATE.EDU |
| BUSHONG, JACOB TRAVIS | JACOB.BUSHONG@OKSTATE.EDU |
| CALHOUN, STEVEN R | STEVEN.CALHOUN@OKSTATE.EDU |
| CRAIN, JARED LEVI | JARED.CRAIN@OKSTATE.EDU |
| CUMBIE, ALEXANDRA ELIZABETH | ALEXANDRA.CUMBIE@OKSTATE.EDU |
| DHAKAL, KUNDAN | KUNDAN@OKSTATE.EDU |
| DHITAL, SULOCHANA | SULOCHANA.DHITAL@OKSTATE.EDU |
| EDANO, MA LOURDES S | MA_LOURDES.EDANO@OKSTATE.EDU |
| FOSTER, ANSERD J | AJ.FOSTER@OKSTATE.EDU |
| HEDGES, WESLEY JOHN | WHEDGES@OKSTATE.EDU |
| LOLLATO, ROMULO PISA | ROMULO.LOLLATO@OKSTATE.EDU |
| MACNACK, NATASHA ELIZABETH | MACNACK@OKSTATE.EDU |
| MEEKS, KEVIN B | KBMEEKS@OKSTATE.EDU |
| PATRIGNANI, ANDRES | ANDRES.PATRIGNANI@OKSTATE.EDU |
| PITTMAN, JEREMY JOSH | JOSH.PITTMAN@OKSTATE.EDU |
| REINERT, MICHAEL DENIS | MICHAEL.REINERT@OKSTATE.EDU |
| SHEPHERD, LANCE M | LANCE.SHEPHERD@OKSTATE.EDU |
| THOMAS, CHRISTOPHER | CHRISTOPHER.A.THOMAS@OKSTATE.EDU |
| WEATHERS, KATLYNN R | KATLYNN.WEATHERS@OKSTATE.EDU |
| WILSON, TRACY | TRACY.WILSON@OKSTATE.EDU |
| YIMAM, YOHANNES TADESSE | YOHANNES.YIMAM@OKSTATE.EDU |
| Kanke, Yumiko | ykanke1@tigers.lsu.edu |
| Marilyn Dalen | mdalen1@tigers.lsu.edu |