{"id":140,"date":"2019-04-13T13:28:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T13:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/?p=140"},"modified":"2019-04-13T13:28:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T13:28:44","slug":"chemical-fertilizer-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/2019\/04\/13\/chemical-fertilizer-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Fertilizer Application"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The past two weeks I continued on preparing the trial\nplots for digestate and fertilizer application. Soil temperatures were closely\nmonitored over the past two weeks. On Monday, soil temperatures were taken and\ndropped to an average of approximately 9.9 \u00baC. Results from initial soil sample\nthat were taken and sent to JHG Laboratories for microbiological analysis were\nreturned and will be statistically analysed along with further results to come.&nbsp; Chemical fertilizer was applied to all three\nfarms using a rotary lawn spreader. Both the type and quantity of chemical\nfertilizer was determined by the Nutrient Management plan I created for each\nfarm. Next week soil temperatures will be continued to be monitored and samples\nfor both soil and herbage will be taken. I will be visiting JHG laboratories\nfor a meeting on soil analysis and I hope to attend a discussion group run by\nTeagasc on monitoring grass growth. I hope to attend a seminar in IT Tralee on\nBiogas application in Irish agriculture and the future of small-scale AD\ndigesters on Irish farms on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2019\/04\/Fertilizer.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2019\/04\/Fertilizer.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2019\/04\/Fertilizer-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past two weeks I continued on preparing the trial plots for digestate and fertilizer application. Soil temperatures were closely monitored over the past two weeks. On Monday, soil temperatures were taken and dropped to an average of approximately 9.9 \u00baC. Results from initial soil sample that were taken and sent to JHG Laboratories for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/2019\/04\/13\/chemical-fertilizer-application\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chemical Fertilizer Application<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}