Manure is rich in nitrogen, organic matter and a variety of minerals, adding nutrition and tilth to the soil and ensuring rich harvests of green and happy vegetables. It’s generally considered to be one of the best amendments you can add to your garden. At least it used to be. Now add...
The decomposition of organic thoughts into a digital residue that, much like traditional compost (or manure, for that matter), may contain some trace nutrients… or may just smell bad.
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phenolic functional groups are preferred sorption sites of PhACs in soil. The large increase in sorption of all PhACs by acetic acid was attributed to a loosening of the soil organic matter and thus the creation of additional sorption sites. The effect of C:19 fatty acid, however, was inconsi...
While biogas is a mixture of methane, CO2, and other gases, produced by anaerobic digestion of organic materials in an oxygen-free environment, biomethane is a nearly pure source of methane created either by upgrading biogas or by gasifying solid biomass, followed by methanation [19]. However,...
Anaerobic lagoons involve treatment of manure in earthen ponds where the components of the manure, i.e., urea, proteins, and organic solids, are transformed into ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen by a symbiotic interaction of aerobic and anaerobic microbes [6–9]....
and water at different percentages and in different combinations. QuEChERS extraction with the use of a mixture of water and an organic solvent (ACN or MeOH) combined with NaCl and MgSO4was also tested. Other investigated parameters were: (I) sample weight, (II) extraction solvent volume, (...
No organic materials were applied to any plots throughout the six-year study period. In 2008, the lysimeter plots were converted from paddy to upland conditions, and soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr. cv. Ryuho) was cultivated for three years (2008–2010). Based on the cultivation guidelines...