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Black oat (Avena strigosa) forage yield and quality under nitrogen fertilisation and long-term gypsum

Marcelo Vicensi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5061-5711 A , Renan C. Umburanas https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4112-3598 A * , Leandro Rampim https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8300-7424 A , Cristiano A. Pott https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4630-2659 A , Fabricio W. de Ávila https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0301-2720 A and Marcelo M. L. Müller https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5466-2398 A
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A Programa de Pós-Graduação em Agronomia, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste (Paraná), 838 Street Élio Antonio Dalla Vecchia, 85040-167 Guarapuava, PR, Brazil.

* Correspondence to: renan.umburanas@gmail.com

Handling Editor: Roger Armstrong

Crop & Pasture Science 72(12) 1034-1047 https://doi.org/10.1071/CP21026
Submitted: 1 April 2020  Accepted: 17 July 2021   Published: 1 December 2021

© 2021 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing

Abstract

Context: The effect of long-term gypsum on nitrogen (N) responsiveness in black oat (Avena strigosa Schreb.) forage lacks information.

Aims and methods: This study evaluated interactions between different rates of N (0, 50 and 100 kg N ha−1) and gypsum (0, 3, 6, 9 and 12 Mg ha−1) on the yield, nutrition and bromatology of forage black oats in a long-term experiment using a no-till system (NTS) in a Ferralsol in southern Brazil.

Key results: There was an interaction between residual gypsum and N rate on biomass forage yield in 2015, but not for the 2016 growing season. In 2015, the rate of 100 kg N ha−1 increased yield by 10% in the absence of gypsum and by 30% at low-medium rates of residual-gypsum (3 and 6 Mg ha−1), but there was no response to high N rate under high gypsum rates (9 and 12 Mg ha−1). In 2016, a poor-growing season, a gypsum rate of 6 Mg ha−1 and N rate of 100 kg ha−1 independently improved forage yield by 5%. Gypsum application produced higher forage contents of N, P, K, Ca and S, and decreased Mg content. N-fertilisation increased the N, K, Ca, and Mg contents, but decreased P content and S concentration. Gypsum had no effect on forage bromatological quality, and even with equivalent forage yield between 50 and 100 kg N ha−1, only the high N rate improved some of the forage quality attributes in both years.

Conclusions and implications: Neither gypsum nor topdressing of N altered N use by black oat forage.

Keywords: Avena strigosa, bromatology, cover crop, Glycine max, nutrient cycling, nitrogen use, nutrient uptake, phosphogypsum.


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