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Publication Type:
| Refereed |
Author(s): | Amoozegar, Aziz;
Peacock, Charles;
Niewoehner, Christopher |
Author Affiliation: | Amoozegar: Department of Soil Science ; Peacock and Niewoehner: Department of Crop Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina |
Title: | Suitability of an animal waste-based root zone mixture for putting green construction |
Section: | Soil physics and rootzone construction Other records with the "Soil physics and rootzone construction" Section
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Meeting Info.: | Santiago, Chile: July 26-30 2009 |
Source: | International Turfgrass Society Research Journal. Vol. 11, No. Part 2, 2009, p. 1033-1040. |
Publishing Information: | Madison, WI: International Turfgrass Society |
# of Pages: | 8 |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Animal manures; Golf green construction; Hydraulic conductivity; Inorganic amendments; Root zone mixture; Soil water retention; USGA recommendations
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Abstract/Contents: | "The United States Golf Association (USGA) standards for putting green construction allow organic and inorganic materials other than peat to be used as an amendment in root zone mixtures. In recent years, a private company in North Carolina has used hog-wastes to develop a special pathogen free organic soil amendment, referred to as SuperSoil® (hereafter referred to as super-soil), with no objectionable odor and little heavy metal content. Saturated hydraulic conductivity and water retention of sand:super-soil mixtures packed at different bulk densities were compared with sand:peat mixtures commonly used for golf green construction. On average, saturated hydraulic conductivity values for sand:peat mixtures were numerically higher than the corresponding Ksat values for the sand:super-soil mixtures. As expected, the highest bulk density for each mixture had the lowest water content and the lowest bulk density had the highest water content at saturation. At 3 kPa pressure, however, the highest bulk density had numerically the highest water content and the lowest bulk density had the lowest water content for each mixture. Overall, the average water content and air-filled porosity for almost all bulk densities for the 80:20 and 85:15 mixtures were within the USGA standards." |
Language: | English |
References: | 9 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): Amoozegar, A., C. Peacock, and C. Niewoehner. 2009. Suitability of an animal waste-based root zone mixture for putting green construction. Int. Turfgrass Soc. Res. J. 11(Part 2):p. 1033-1040. |
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