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Precision N management for field vegetables in organic soils: a short review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2017

L. Longchamps  and
N. Tremblay
L. Longchamps*
Affiliation:
CRD St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, J3B 3E6, Canada
N. Tremblay
Affiliation:
CRD St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, J3B 3E6, Canada
*
†E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Field vegetables require large amounts of N and precision N management (PNM) may help increase their productivity, quality and profitability while reducing N leaching in the biosphere. Few studies investigated PNM for field vegetables. This may be explained by the great diversity in crops and cultivars which complicate the broad implementation of PNM discoveries. Field vegetables are often grown in histosols, which have unique properties such as quantity of N mineralized and the spatial pattern of organic soil depth. Finally, research gaps exist in the development of decision support systems adapted to field vegetable crops grown in histosols.

Keywords

histosolsdecision support systemsnitrogenfield vegetables
Type
Precision Nitrogen
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Advances in Animal Biosciences , Volume 8 , Special Issue 2: Papers presented at the 11th European Conference on Precision Agriculture (ECPA 2017), John McIntyre Centre, Edinburgh, UK, July 16–20 2017 , July 2017 , pp. 308 - 311
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© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada 2017 

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