Strategies to evaluate goodness of reference strips for in-season, field scale, irrigated corn nitrogen sufficiency |
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| Authors: | Walter C Bausch Mary K Brodahl |
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| Institution: | (1) Water Management Research Unit, Natural Resources Research Center, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, 2150 Centre Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA |
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| Abstract: | The nitrogen (N) sufficiency approach to assess plant N status for in-season N management requires a non-N-limiting reference
to make N recommendations. Use of reference strips in fields with spatially variable soils and the impact this variability
has within N enriched reference strips are not well understood. Consequently three strategies were investigated to evaluate
the impact of spatially variable sandy soils within reference strips in two commercial center pivot-irrigated corn fields.
Evaluation strategies were: (i) ignore soil spatial variability throughout the reference strips, (ii) account for soil variability
in the reference strips based on second-order NRCS soil map units, and (iii) account for soil variability based on apparent
electrical conductivity (ECa) data as a surrogate for soil texture differences in the reference strips. A sufficiency index (SI) calculated from radiometer
measured canopy reflectance data (SIsensor) and from SPAD chlorophyll meter data (SImeter) at two growth stages during corn vegetative growth were used to assess N sufficiency within the N enriched reference strips.
By ignoring soil spatial variability in the reference strips, corn in the sandier soils was designated N deficient. Accounting
for soil spatial variability using NRCS soil mapping units improved N sufficiency designations of corn in the reference strip
for the different soil types contained within the reference strip but tended to designate corn in lighter texture areas within
a mapping unit as N deficient. Use of ECa as a surrogate for soil texture typically performed best for classifying corn N sufficiency throughout the reference strip
and is recommended as a method to obtain reference strip normalizing values in fields with spatially variable sandy soils. |
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