Ammonia loss from vegetable systems, Clyde, Victoria, 2014

This field campaign was conducted at Clyde between March and June 2014. The field study was conducted on two adjacent paddocks (~140 m by 220 m). Chicken manure and standard fertiliser practice was used at both sites. The nitrification inhibitor DMPP was applied one day after manure application. Open-path FTIR was used for NH3 measurment. Closed static chambers were used to measure N2O emission. 15N microplots were used for calculating the recovery of the applied N in the plant and the soil.