The influence of dairy manure on atrazine and 2,4- dichlorophenoxyacetic acid mineralization in pasture soils

Abstract

Finds greater amounts of total fungal and bacterial biomass in soils that received added manure. There were no differences among active bacterial and fungal biomass between pasture soils that received manure application and pasture soils that received no manure. Greater amounts of atrazine and 2,4-D were mineralized when manure was applied than when soil received no manure or fertilizer. The application of dairy manure to pasture soils will significantly increase herbicide degradation rates. -from Authors