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The potential for potassium chloride fertiliser applications to leach cadmium from a grazed pasture soil

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posted on 2024-06-21, 03:52 authored by Rich McDowellRich McDowell
Cadmium (Cd) is a biotoxic element that can enter the human food chain via plants grown in Cd-enriched soil. Chloride (Cl) can solubilise Cd in soil. Although fertilisers containing Cl are not recommended as they may increase plant uptake of Cd, potassium chloride (KCl) is regularly applied to replenish and maintain K in the soil of grazed pastures. A trial was conducted to see if an autumn application of low or high KCl and the same molar rates of CaCl2 would leach Cd over 4-months of normal or high autumn-winter rainfall without enriching Cd in plant shoots. Applying Cl (e.g. as KCl) in autumn may be a simple strategy to help slow the enrichment of soil Cd and does not increase the uptake of Cd by pasture shoots.

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Funded by the New Zealand Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment's Our Land and Water National Science Challenge (Toitū te Whenua, Toiora te Wai) as part of project Sources and Flows|Phosphorus Best Practice

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Publication date

2019-11-07

Language

  • English

Does this contain Māori information or data?

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Journal title

Geoderma

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