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Penn State University Cover Crop Cocktails: Surface Soil Inorganic Nitrogen Data

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posted on 2025-04-05, 00:04 authored by Madeline Luthard, Brosi A. Bradley, Charlie White, Sheryl C Hosler, Jason P. Kaye

The dataset is a cleaned/summarized version of data collected from 2012-2022 at the Cover Crop Cocktail site for surface soil inorganic nitrogen. Surface soil samples are collected approximately monthly during cover crop growing season. Data include sampling timepoint information (date, year, month, day), sampling plot information (entry, block, plot, strip), cover crop treatment, crop window, and sample values (nitrate and ammonium in parts per million (ppm) and milligrams of nitrogen per kilogram of soil (mg N/kg soil); total nitrogen in mg N/kg soil).

Funding

USDA-NIFA: 2019-68012-29904

History

Data contact name

Luthard, Madeline

Data contact email

msl5511@psu.edu

Publisher

Ag Data Commons

Temporal Extent Start Date

2012-08-01

Temporal Extent End Date

2022-05-31

Frequency

  • monthly

Theme

  • Non-geospatial

ISO Topic Category

  • farming
  • environment

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

data collection; cover crops; soil; nitrogen; soil sampling; growing season; nitrates; ammonium; total nitrogen

OMB Bureau Code

  • 005:20 - National Institute of Food and Agriculture

OMB Program Code

  • 005:040 - National Research

Pending citation

  • No

Public Access Level

  • Public