Sentence examples for fertilizer leaching from inspiring English sources

Knowledge of seasonal nutrient demand is necessary to maximize potato (Solanum tuberosum) yield and profitability while also minimizing the risk of excess fertilizer leaching into waterways.

As the founding director of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems in St . Louis he led a staff drawn from many disciplines in investigating, among other things, lead poisoning in slums, the ecology of ghetto rats, the economics of conventional versus organic farming, and the pollution of rivers by fertilizer leaching.

Groundwater nitrate concentrations were high (max: 7.4 mgN l−1) owing to chemical fertilizer leaching from dryland fields forced by monsoonal rainfalls.

The enormous effort to satisfy that big appetite creates significant environmental impacts, from fertilizers leaching into our water supplies and overfishing to massive die-offs of bees from pesticides and habitat loss.

Poisonous nitrate fertilizers leaching into our rural wells and municipal drinking water supplies (where it combines into a super-toxic brew with pesticides) are a biological time bomb, a major cause of cancer, infertility, hormone disruption, and birth defects.

The conversion of large swaths of land into feed grain monocultures to raise ever-growing numbers of animals emits the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, as synthetic fertilizers leach into soils and water.

Fluctuations in uranium concentrations in surface-infiltration water can be attributed to releases of uranium from specific sources – migration from phosphate fertilizers and leaching from mineral deposits.

Instead of being injected into local fields as fertilizer and eventually leaching into the groundwater, the farm's manure sludge is now heaped onto enormous compost piles at the farm and turned into composted manure that is packaged and sold at Home Depots and garden centers across the region.

The high values could be as a result of nitrates from fertilizers being leached below the plant's root zone and eventually reaching groundwater (Ansa-Asare et al. 2009).

From the 114 kg ha−1 S applied as fertilizer the leaching was 0.480 kg ha−1.

As long as developers do not crowd the banks with condominiums and houses that spoil the quality of the water with leaching lawn fertilizer and oil-laced storm water from parking lots, the beds will replenish themselves.