THE EFFICIENCY OF USING INNOVATIVE SOIL LIMING AND FERTILIZER MEANS IN WINTER WHEAT SOWINGS
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https://doi.org/10.17770/sfi2025.1.1.8375Keywords:
Digestate, wood ash, mixtures, winter wheatAbstract
Field trials were conducted at the Study and Research Farm “Peterlauki” of the Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies from 2020 to 2023. Soil characteristics: sod - stagnogley soil Luvisols (according to FAO classification); granulometric composition – heavy dusty sand clay. Winter wheat sowings were established using different variants of a fertilizer mix with cattle (from JSC “Ziedi JP”) manure digestate (D) and wood ash (P) (from LLC “Gren Jelgava”) in different ratios. The norms of the innovative mixed fertilizer for cattle manure digestate and wood ash were 5, 10, and 20 t per ha. Unfertilized winter wheat plots were used as control. Variants in the two-factor trial were randomized in triplicate. In the experiment, the influence of the researched factors on winter wheat grain yield, the content of protein, starch and gluten in grains, Zeleny index, grain volumetric weight (kg per hL), and the mass of 1000 grains were determined. The aim of the study was to determine the impact of biogas fermentation by-product (digestate) and cogeneration plant and boiler house residues (wood ash) on the yield and quality of winter wheat. Depending on the study variant, the winter wheat yield varied on average three years from 6.29 to 7.39 t per ha. It was established that the average winter wheat grain yield in the control variant was 5.05 t per ha, which is significantly (p<0.05) lower than in the variants using fertilizers of digestate and wood ash mixtures. Using digestate and wood ash mixtures, sufficiently high and high-quality winter wheat yields can be obtained without the use of mineral fertilizers. The mixtures of digestate and wood ash are an innovative fertilizer way for improving the soil fertility, which is also suitable for winter wheat.
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