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{"title":"Changes in soil hydraulic conductivity in sweet potato field with living mulch","authors":"Junko Nishiwaki,&nbsp;Takuya Koseki,&nbsp;Naomi Asagi,&nbsp;Hirotaka Saito,&nbsp;Roy C. Sidle","doi":"10.1002/ael2.20106","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ael2.20106","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Living mulch (LM) is used in agricultural fields to suppress weeds, control diseases, and mitigate erosion. It also enhances soil nutrient supply at the root death and decay stage during the growing season. However, benefits of LM to soil hydraulic properties related to soil pore structure have not been elaborated here. We focus on temporal changes in soil hydraulic conductivity (<i>K</i>) in a field where sweet potato was grown with and without LM (barley, <i>Hordeum vulgare</i> L.). <i>K</i> was measured in the field using a mini-disk infiltrometer at three different pressure heads. In the plots with LM, <i>K</i> decreased significantly in August and then increased in October compared to plots without LM (at –0.5 cm pressure head). Changes in soil pore structure due to root growth or death and decay may alter soil hydraulic conductivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48502,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural & Environmental Letters","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ael2.20106","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49452703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thanks to our 2022 reviewers","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ael2.20107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ael2.20107","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Maintaining the editorial standards of a scientific journal is the primary task of the journal editors. Their task is made much easier with the help of colleagues who are invited to review manuscripts. Through their critical comments and helpful suggestions, these volunteer reviewers have done much to maintain and further the quality of research reported in &lt;i&gt;Agricultural Letters &amp; Environmental Letters&lt;/i&gt;. The members of the &lt;i&gt;Agricultural Letters &amp; Environmental Letters&lt;/i&gt; Editorial Board express their appreciation to the following individuals who reviewed manuscripts in 2022. Many of the reviewers listed below reviewed more than one manuscript. We extend our apologies and thanks to those reviewers whose names have been inadvertently omitted from this list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Acosta-Martinez, Veronica, USDA-ARS&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Archer, David, USDA-ARS-NGPRL&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bardhan, Sougata, Lincoln University of Missouri&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Basche, Andrea, University of Nebraska-Lincoln&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Belasco, Eric&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brorsen, Wade, Oklahoma State University&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bryant, Ray, USDA-ARS-Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Buda, Anthony, USDA-ARS&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Castellano, Michael, Iowa State University&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cates, Anna, University of Minnesota Twin Cities&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chakraborty, Debolina, University of Florida&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cheng, Weiguo, Yamagata University&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cheong, Kit-Leong&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clemensen, Andrea&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Collick, Amy, Morehead State University&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Culman, Steven, Washington State University&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Daigh, Aaron, University of Nebraska-Lincoln&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;De Guzman, Christian, University of Arkansas System&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dell, Curtis, USDA-ARS Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;DeSutter, Thomas, North Dakota State University&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Devkota, Pratap, University of Florida&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dungan, Robert, USDA-ARS&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Elnaker, Nancy, Khalifa University&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Essington, Michael, University of Tennessee&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ewing, Patrick, USDA-ARS North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Farmaha, Bhupinder, Clemson University&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Faulkner, Joshua, University of Vermont&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Francisco, Eros&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Franzen, David, North Dakota State University&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Franzluebbers, Alan, USDA&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gailans, Stefan, Practical Farmers of Iowa&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gatiboni, Luke, North Carolina State University at Raleigh&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ghanem, Michel Edmond, ITK&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ghimire, Rajan, New Mexico State University&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ginakes, Peyton, University of Maine System&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Good, Laura, University of Wisconsin-Madison&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Graham, Jennifer, US Geological Survey Northeast Region&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Guo, Mingxin, Delaware State University&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Haden, Ryan, The Ohio State University&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hatfield, Jerry, USDA-ARS&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hawkesford, Malcolm J., Rothamsted Res&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He, Zhongqi, USDA-ARS&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Heilman, Philip, USDA-ARS&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Joshi, Deepak, South Dakota State University&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kharel, Tulsi, USDA-ARS&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Knappenberger, Thorsten, Auburn University&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kral-O'Brien, Katherine, North Dakota University System&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kukal, Meetpal, Pennsylvania State","PeriodicalId":48502,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural & Environmental Letters","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ael2.20107","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50122061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recipients of A&EL Editor's Citation for Excellence named","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ael2.20104","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ael2.20104","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The <i>Agricultural &amp; Environmental Letters</i> (A&amp;EL) editorial board has selected two individuals for recognition for excellence in performing their work as associate editors. The recognition is based on their efforts in establishing a quality review process—for timely and professional manuscript editing, for fair and rigorous integration of reviewer comments, and for overall excellence in managing a professional review process. The editorial board has also awarded three individuals the Editor's Citation for Excellence in Review. Members of the A&amp;EL editorial board express their deepest appreciation for these associate editors and volunteer reviewers, who have benefited our journal, our community, and our sciences through their outstanding work.</p>","PeriodicalId":48502,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural & Environmental Letters","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ael2.20104","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43957034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Soil health tradeoffs may be minimal in phosphorus-enriched Coastal Plain soils","authors":"Lauren R. Mosesso,&nbsp;Amy L. Shober","doi":"10.1002/ael2.20101","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ael2.20101","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Soil health practices can improve soil conditions and provide ecosystem services, but increased risk of phosphorus (P) loss can be an unintended consequence. We investigated conservation tillage and cover crops effects on soil P stratification, P accumulation at depth, and soil aggregation for sandy Coastal Plain soils from the Mid-Atlantic United States soil cores from 10 agricultural fields with 0–15 years of conservation tillage or cover cropping were analyzed for Mehlich-3 P and dry aggregate stability. We found no evidence that conservation tillage or cover cropping caused P stratification or accumulation in study fields that were already enriched with P prior to soil health implementation. Annual particulate, dissolved runoff, and leachate P loads decreased when estimated using the North Carolina Phosphorus Loss Assessment Tool assuming no-till and cover crops (soil health) compared to conventional till and winter fallow (conventional). We suggest that soil health practices are unlikely to exacerbate P losses from high P Coastal Plain soils beyond their initial risk profile.</p>","PeriodicalId":48502,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural & Environmental Letters","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ael2.20101","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43579049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating tradeoffs in nitrogen loss pathways using an environmental damage cost framework","authors":"Giovani Preza-Fontes,&nbsp;Laura E. Christianson,&nbsp;Cameron M. Pittelkow","doi":"10.1002/ael2.20103","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ael2.20103","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Few studies have addressed whether in-field practices to reduce nitrate-nitrogen (NO₃-N) leaching might increase nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions, which could undermine attempts to mitigate agricultural N pollution. Over a 3-year period, we assessed the impacts of N application timing and cereal rye (<i>Secale cereale</i> L.) cover crop on subsurface drainage NO₃-N leaching and N₂O emissions to quantify changes in total N loss and corresponding social and environmental damage costs under continuous corn (<i>Zea mays</i> L.). While NO₃-N losses were reduced by 37% with the combination of in-season split N application and cereal rye cover crop relative to pre-season N application, soil N₂O emissions increased by 26%, highlighting a tradeoff between N loss pathways. As a result, total N losses and social and environmental damage costs from each system were not different. These results demonstrate the importance of addressing agricultural N pollution using a holistic framework accounting for the environmental and social risks of both NO₃-N losses and N₂O emissions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48502,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural & Environmental Letters","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ael2.20103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45899046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Raman spectroscopic assessment of fibers and seeds of six cotton genotypes","authors":"Zhongqi He,&nbsp;Sunghyun Nam,&nbsp;David Fang","doi":"10.1002/ael2.20102","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ael2.20102","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Raman spectroscopy (RS) is a vibrational spectroscopy. This work reported the RS spectral characteristics of fiber and seed of six cotton (<i>Gossypium</i> sp.) genotypes differing in fiber length. While the RS spectra of fiber samples were dominated by the cellulose-related peaks, the spectra of cottonseed samples were featured by the bands related to oil, protein, carbohydrate, and lignin components. Principal component analysis (PCA) revealed that the first two principal components (PCs) accounted for &gt;87% of the total variation of the two types of samples. The PC1 versus PC2 plot classified the six fiber samples into three groups, but their cottonseeds into four groups. This experimental evidence implied the possibility of RS combined with PCA for rapid fiber phenotyping of cotton as well as for evaluating cottonseed nutrient information.</p>","PeriodicalId":48502,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural & Environmental Letters","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ael2.20102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43446967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Publisher's Report 2022: Agricultural & Environmental Letters","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ael2.20105","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ael2.20105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48502,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural & Environmental Letters","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45727658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cropping systems with perennial vegetation and livestock integration promote soil health","authors":"Abigail J. Augarten,&nbsp;Lindsay Chamberlain Malone,&nbsp;Gregory S. Richardson,&nbsp;Randall D. Jackson,&nbsp;Michel A. Wattiaux,&nbsp;Shawn P. Conley,&nbsp;Amber M. Radatz,&nbsp;Eric T. Cooley,&nbsp;Matthew D. Ruark","doi":"10.1002/ael2.20100","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ael2.20100","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Soil health can differ across cropping systems because of variation in edaphic and management factors. We evaluated how biological indicators of soil health (soil organic matter [SOM], permanganate oxidizable carbon [POXC], mineralizable carbon [MinC], autoclaved-citrate-extractable [ACE] protein, and potentially mineralizable nitrogen [PMN]) compared across four common Wisconsin cropping systems: grazed cool-season pastures, forage-based rotations that included perennial legumes or grasses, annual rotations receiving manure, and annual rotations receiving synthetic fertilizers. Biological indicators of soil health were up to 195% greater in pastures than other cropping systems. MinC, POXC and PMN were 10%–90% greater in forage-based rotations than annual cropping systems, but only MinC and POXC were greater in annual systems with manure compared to those without manure by 35% and 7%, respectively. Perennial vegetation and livestock integration offer the greatest potential to increase biological indicators of soil health in agricultural lands.</p>","PeriodicalId":48502,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural & Environmental Letters","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ael2.20100","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42806283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Predicting cereal cover crop biomass using shoot length in California vegetable systems","authors":"Eric B. Brennan,&nbsp;Richard F. Smith","doi":"10.1002/ael2.20099","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ael2.20099","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To better understand cover crop benefits and receive nitrogen scavenging credits for cover cropping, farmers need simple and robust methods of predicting cover crop biomass production. A new regulation focused on improving nitrogen management on over 200,000 ha of irrigated land in the central coast of California motivated us to evaluate if the shoot length of rye (<i>Secale cereale</i> L., ‘Merced’) and triticale (× <i>Triticosecale</i> Wittmack, ‘Pacheco’) could predict shoot biomass. Field samples for rye (<i>n</i> = 162) and triticale (<i>n</i> = 126) were collected at various developmental growth stages from organic and conventional vegetable farms and planting date trials, across multiple soil types, planting times, row spacings, and plant densities. Main shoot length was well-correlated with oven-dry shoot biomass for rye (<i>r</i>² = 0.87) and triticale (<i>r</i>² = 0.88). This provides farms in California and beyond with a simple, robust method to estimate cover crop shoot biomass.</p>","PeriodicalId":48502,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural & Environmental Letters","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ael2.20099","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49191998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Haney Soil Health Test changes with season, not subsurface drainage","authors":"Kyle Sherbine,&nbsp;Aaron Frankl,&nbsp;Fabian Fernandez,&nbsp;Lindsay Pease,&nbsp;Anna M. Cates","doi":"10.1002/ael2.20098","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ael2.20098","url":null,"abstract":"The Haney Soil Health Test (HSHT) is used to quantify soil health using soil biological activity and water‐extractable C and N. However, suitability of the HSHT to measure soil health in subsurface drained fields remains unknown. Our goals were to use the HSHT in Minnesota cropand to (a) test the effect of recent tile drainage installation, (b) evaluate seasonal variability, and (c) calculate a potential N fertilizer credit. Three soil biological indices used in the HSHT were measured seasonally across 2 yr and used to calculate a soil health score and N credit. All metrics were unaffected by subsurface drainage, but all varied seasonally (greatest in spring) and annually (greater in 2020 than in 2021). Soil biological indicators did not change abruptly following subsurface drainage but may change gradually, and this needs to be tested further. Significant seasonal variability may pose challenges in tracking soil health over time.","PeriodicalId":48502,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural & Environmental Letters","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ael2.20098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46852626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}