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Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Ryegrass Yield after Application of Solid-Liquid Pig Slurry and Biochar to an Agricultural Soil
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Background: The application of animal slurry to the soil improves its quality, as manure contains many nutrients for
plants. However, this could negatively impact the environment.
Objective: This field study investigated the effects of the addition of biochar after the mechanical separation of
Whole pig Slurry (WS) into Solid (SF) and Liquid Fractions (LF) on Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions (N2O, CO2,
and CH4) and ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam. cv magnum) yield.
Methods: Biochar (1.0 kg m-2) was applied in plots alone or together with each of the three slurries (80 kg N ha-1) in
a total of eight treatments with three replications, including just soil with and without biochar as controls. Soil
properties, Greenhouse Gas (GHG) fluxes, and yield were measured during theautumn/winter growing season.
Results: The results showed that the addition of biochar to these three slurries significantly increased the soil pH
and showed no impact on the other physicochemical properties. The GHG emissions were not significantly different
between treatments with and without biochar. The N use efficiency increased significantly in SF > WS > LF, whereas
no differences were observed among these three slurries with and without biochar.
Conclusion: It can be concluded that the addition of biochar combined with WS or SF/LF to sandy-loam soil appears
to have no impact on GHG emissions and ryegrass yield during the autumn/winter season. Overall, this finding
suggests that amounts higher than 1.0 kg m-2 of biochar combined with SF may need to be applied to soil to reduce
GHG emissions and nitrate leaching and increase N use efficiency and crop yield
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Biochar GHG emissions Pig slurry Solid-liquid separation Ryegrass