{"id":162,"date":"2019-06-27T16:49:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T16:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/?p=162"},"modified":"2019-06-27T16:49:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T16:49:49","slug":"second-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/2019\/06\/27\/second-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Soil temperatures and grass growth were continued to\nbe monitored. Soil temperatures were up to 13\/14\u00b0C on all three farms between\nthe 10<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 20<sup>th<\/sup> June.&nbsp;\nHowever, between the 24th and 28<sup>th<\/sup> of June temperatures on\nall 3 farms were up to 15-16\u00b0C, which is consistent with the increase in air\ntemperatures. Received results back from FBA which will be statistically\nanalysed along with all other results. Soil and herbage samples were taken and\nsent to FBA for SR3 and Mineral trace scan and feed analysis. Prof Charles\nSpillane and Dr Galina Brychkova visited all three farm plots on Monday 17<sup>th<\/sup>\nJune. On advisement a weed assessment was carried out on Farm A and Farm C as\nwell as a red clover : ryegrass % was calculated and both results will be\nanalysed. On Thursday all 3 farm plots were mown and the grass was gathered and\nweighed to compare digestate v\u2019s chemical fertilizer plots. There was\nexponential differences with digestate fertilized showing much higher yields. Another\nround of digestate and chemical fertilizer will be applied next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2019\/06\/Mow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-160\" width=\"342\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2019\/06\/Mow.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2019\/06\/Mow-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2019\/06\/Mow-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163\" width=\"347\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2019\/06\/Mow-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2019\/06\/Mow-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soil temperatures and grass growth were continued to be monitored. Soil temperatures were up to 13\/14\u00b0C on all three farms between the 10th \u2013 20th June.&nbsp; However, between the 24th and 28th of June temperatures on all 3 farms were up to 15-16\u00b0C, which is consistent with the increase in air temperatures. Received results back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/2019\/06\/27\/second-cut\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Second Cut<\/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":[12,14,13],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anaerobic-digestion","tag-carbon-footprint","tag-sustainable-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","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=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/arlene-mc-grath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}