Soils, Fertilizer and Food Security · –Restoring soil health - local actions, global...
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Soils, Fertilizer and Food Security
Paul Fixen
Sr. Vice President, IPNI
President Elect, ASA
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IPNI Member Companies
Brazil Staff
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• International scientific and professional society
• Professional home for:
– 8,000+ members
– 14,000+ certified professionals (CCAs and CPAs)
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Institutions with much in common
Make life better for human kind through the food
we eat, water we drink, air we breath, the beauty
we see in our surroundings
Combine science
and fertilizer to:Combine science
and agronomy to:
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An opportunity for each of
us to tell our own soil story
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My soil story
begins in Norway
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The original Fixen Farm: near Fykse, Norway
Steep, rocky, shallow soils
low in organic … and low
in productivity
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Poor soil drove the family from
its home to a foreign land holding
the promise of a better life
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Minnesota
Iowa
Where the
clan landed
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Deep dark high organic matter prairie soils … a
farmer’s heaven!
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High school soil judging in FFA
• Soil has 3 dimensions
• What’s below the surface explains much of what happens on the surface
• Soil is important to farming … and complex
Led to a PhD in soils and
career in soil fertility
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We study and manage soils not just
for us … but for those that follow
Measuring plant
height and
residue cover
1992
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What’s your soil story?
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Provision of food,
fiber and fuel
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The food security challenge: to produce more food over the next 50 year than in all of human history
Graph provided by J. Hatfield, USDA-ARS
Petacal = 1015
Exacal = 1018
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Global population and arable land per capita
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Our biggest challenge: the permanent“greening” of this map
% of population
undernourished
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Scenes that are far too common
• Food crops come from only 12%of earth’s land area
• Approximately 40% of agricultural soils are degraded … 65% in sub-Saharan Africa
• Half of earth’s topsoil has been lost during the last 150 years
Photos from J. Hatfield, USDA-ARS
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Soil conserving/building practices are essential components of sustainable systems
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Soil health
• Soil health (USDA-NRCS): the continued capacity of the soil to function as a vital living ecosystem that sustains plants, animals, and humans
• Soil health management requires an integrative approach that recognizes the physical, biological and chemical processes in soils.
Soil organic matter is
a primary factor in all
three processes
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Organic C levels in soils of the northern Pampas since beginning of agriculture
(Argiudolls)
y = -6,4 Ln(x) + 70
R2 = 0,71
0
20
40
60
80
0 30 60 90 120
Years under cropping
Ca
rbo
n (
t/h
a)
Source: Alvarez y Steinbach (2006) from data of Andriulo and Cordone (1998)
43% of
original
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Hypothetical hydroelectric plant
• Opening valve B temporarily increases power generation, but at the expense of water storage.
• Closing valve B increases water stored, but reduces power generation.
• Increasing both storage and power requires an increase in water inflow.
Janzen, 2006
Crop
residues
O.M.
decay
Biological
benefits
Soil
organic
matter
More residue production
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Soil fertility restrictions in Brazil
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Response to P & K fertilization in the cerrado of Brazil
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Yield attributed to fertilizers
• Temperate soils: 40-60%
• Tropical soils: much higher
Stewart et al., 2005.
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Crop residue you do not see - roots
And much additional biota below the soil surface
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Organic C evolution during 40 yearsRotations Study INIA La Estanzuela (Uruguay)
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
1958 1968 1978 1988 1998 2008
Años
C o
rgá
nic
o (
%)
S 1
S 2
S 5
S 7
Source: A. Morón (2003)
Years
System
% Row
Crop*
Fertil-
ization
50%66%
100%
100%
Yes
No
*Other crop in rotation is pasture
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Soil carbon in 0-7.5 cm soil depth as a function of N and P fertilizer rates.
0 22 45 67 90 112 135 157 179
N fertilizer rate, kg/ha
77 kg P2O5/ha
No P fertilizer
Halvorson and Reule, 1999
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P-inefficient
genotypes
P-efficient
genotypes
P-inefficient
genotypes
P-efficient
genotypes
Insufficient P leads to reduced C sequestration … bad for soils, bad for climate
• Low P plants:
– Lose more C through root respiration
– Have increased root exudation of C
– Often have increased physiological C costs
Lynch and Ho, 2005
Root carbon costs of bean genotypes
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Soil glomalin concentration under different fertilization treatments (Argentina)
Grumberg et al., 2012
Glomalin
Wright, USDA-ARS
Coats fungus growing on maize roots slowing
decomposition and keeping carbon in the soil
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Integrated management of fertilizers and organic nutrient sources
Treatment Avg Soil org. C
N-P-K Manure yield (9yrs) after 9 yrs
kg/ha t/ha t/ha t/ha
0-0-0 0 1.3 14.1
0-0-0 10 1.7 15.4
120-26-33 0 2.4 16.9
120-26-33 10 3.0 18.6
LSD 0.05 0.2 1.9
Singh and Ryan, 2015.
Irrigated wheat/soybean system in sub-temperate
region of North India.
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Nutrient removal by the 18 leading crops of Brazil
• Fertilizer nutrients replace those removed by crop harvest to avoid soil nutrient exhaustion AND …
• To maintain or build soil organic matter
Factor N P2O5 K2O
Million tons
Crop removal 6.50 1.84 3.03
Legume fixation 4.35
Average of 2009-2012.
Francisco et al., 2015.
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Outcomes
of
4R Nutrient
Stewardship
are greatly
influenced
by
crop and pest
management
and by
soil and
water
conservation
practices
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Soil Health in a Jug?
Dec, 2014
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4R Practices are found at the intersection of:
The rigorous world of
science …Adsorption Index (mg kg-1)
0 150 300 450 600 750 900 1050
So
il D
ep
th (
m)
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8
No N or P135 N + 0 P135 N + 80 P
No Manure
0 150 300 450 600 750 900 1050
No N or P135 N + 0 P135 N + 80 P
Manure
Wright
and the practical world of
real farms.
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Photo by Bill Pan
Think about how we manage soil
conditions and nutrition of each
plant
Scale down to the environment of individual plants … remembering genetics, culture, and technology
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Soil type matters - wheat response to P fertilizer in Australia
“Better Fertilizer Decisions for Crops in Australia”
www.bfdc.com.au
VertosolsAll sites
Soil type and condition can significantly influence
nutrient response
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Negative effects on soil health resulting from above optimum nutrient use
• Soil acidification
• Altered microbial composition
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Food or nutritional Security?Nutrient content of global cereal
supply has declined as production increased
Iron
Zinc
Energy
Protein
DeFries et al., 2015
Dietary reference
intake
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Learn more about soils and food security …
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• Summer 2015: Nutrients and Soil Biology
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• Winter 2015:
Quarterly Series on IYOS
Learn more about soils and food security …
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Learn more about soils and food security …
www.nutrients4soils.info
https://www.soils.org/iys
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4R: “right” means sustainable
“Building public trust”
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Tell your soil story and include the
critical role of fertilizers in soil health
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“Upon this handful of soil our survival depends. Husband it and it will grow our food, our fuel, and our shelter and surround us with beauty. Abuse it and the soil will collapse and die taking man with it.”
Fertilizer nutrients used according to the concepts of 4R Nutrient Stewardship are a critical component of that husbandry.
Sanskrit literature from between 2000 and 1500 BC