
WERA103: Nutrient Management and Water Quality
(Multistate Research Coordinating Committee and Information Exchange Group)
Status: Active
SAES-422 Reports
05/29/2026
Abiola, S. O., Bigatao Souza, J. L., Sharry, R., Derrick, J. R., Maatougui, M., & Arnall, D. B. (2025). Split nitrogen applications provide no benefit over a single well timed application in rainfed winter wheat. Frontiers in Plant Science, 16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2025.1698494
Adams, C.B., Rogers, C.W., Marshall, J.M., Walsh, O.S.,*Thurgood, G., *Dari, B., Loomis, G. (2025). Wheat grain and total biomass nutrient accumulation and harvest indices. Agronomy Journal, 117, e70066. doi.org/10.1002/agj2.70066 (ARIS: 422182).
Adebayo, O., Strohm, T. N., Acosta-Martinez, V., Fonte, S. J., Schipanski, M., Mikha, M. M., Bista, P., Angadi, S. V., & Ghimire, R. (2026). Linking biological and organic matter indicators of soil health with soil water functions in semi-arid compost-amended and intensified cropping systems [Article]. Geoderma, 466, 13, Article 117692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2026.117692
Adebayo, O., Thapa, V. R., Ulery, A., Schipanski, M., & Ghimire, R. (2025). Optimizing inorganic nitrogen extraction method to evaluate alternative cropping strategies [Article]. Agronomy Journal, 117(4), 11, Article e70120. https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.70120
Anselmi, K. A., Hansen, N. C., Hopkins, B. G., & Hulet, A. 2025. Monitoring of soil fertility using in situ soil electrical conductivity sensor in sports turf field. International Turfgrass Society Research Journal, 15, 1135–1138. https://doi.org/10.1002/its2.70080
Antonangelo, J. A., Bigatao Souza, J. L., & Zhang, H. (2025). Fertilizer potential of biochar and ryegrass productivity in metal-contaminated soil. Frontiers in Plant Science, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2024.1475939
Arp, J. T., Sanyal, D., Kaur, J., Karki, D., & Bly, A. (2026). Exploring the nexus between regenerative agriculture and soil health: a special emphasis on semi-arid and arid agriculture. Frontiers in Agronomy, 8, 1666008. https://doi.org/10.3389/fagro.2026.1666008
Attalah, S., Elsadek, E. A., Waller, P., Hunsaker, D. J., Thorp, K. R., Bautista, E., ... & Elshikha, D. E. M. (2025). Evaluation and comparison of OpenET models for estimating soil water depletion of irrigated alfalfa in Arizona. Agricultural Water Management, 320, 109850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109850
Barroso, J., Reardon, C., Singh, S., Machado, S., Gourlie, J., Namdar, G., Oreja, F., Pritchett, L., Kriete, L., Calderon, F., Berry, P., McGee, R., Durfee, N., Adams, C., and Hagerty, C. 2025. Biomass production, weed suppression, and soil water use of cover crops in dryland wheat production systems. Agronomy Journal 117(2), e70053. https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.70053
Bourns, M., Slaton, N.A., G. Buol, J.T. Spargo, L. Gatiboni, M.A. Yost, D. Kaiser, D. L. Osmond. 2025. FRST: The fertilizer recommendation support tool relational database and decision interface tool. Agricultural & Environmental Letters. 10(1): e70016. https://doi.org/10.1002/ael2.70016.
Bourns, M.A., Osmond, D.L., Slaton, N.A., Spargo, J.T., Gatiboni, L., Lacey, C., Sawyer, D., & Yost, M. (2025). Stakeholder engagement with soil testing: Practices and perspectives in U.S. agriculture [Data set]. Ag Data Commons. https://doi.org/10.15482/USDA.ADC/29656808.
Carr, P.M., M.M. Volkman, S.I Fordyce, Crookston, B., M.A. Yost, and J.R. Reeve. 2025. Composted manure legacy impacts on organic wheat in the northern Great Plains. Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 105:1-13. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjps-2025-0008. Invited.
Clark, C. M., Dolda, S., Singh, U., Delgado, J. A., Hopkins, B. G., Olk, D. C., Pavuluri, K., Roy, A., Venterea, R., Wilson, M. Fugice, J. 2026. Environmental sustainability of future fertilizers: tradeoffs between ammonia volatilization and nitrate leaching for 11 enhanced efficiency fertilizers. Journal of Plant Nutrition, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01904167.2025.2595092
Cory, A. B., Wilson, R. M., Holmes, M. E., Riley, W. J., Li, Y. F., Tfaily, M. M., ... & Chanton, J. P. (2025). A climatically significant abiotic mechanism driving carbon loss and nitrogen limitation in peat bogs. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 2560. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-85928-w
Das, T. K., Kaur, J., Mukhopadhyay, R., Bezbaruah, A., & Sanyal, D. (2025). Engineered nanomaterials for removal, recovery, and reuse of phosphorus: From water to fertilizer pathways. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 103672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cis.2025.103672
Dolui, M., Nel, T., Phillips, L. M., McMurtry, A. R., Moreland, K., Tfaily, M., ... & Berhe, A. A. (2026). Composition and persistence of soil organic matter along eroding and depositional transects in buried vs. modern soil layers: A case of the Brady paleosol at Wauneta, Nebraska. Geoderma, 465, 117660. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117660
Elsadek, E. A., Attalah, S., Waller, P., Norton, R., Hunsaker, D. J., Williams, C., ... & Elshikha, D. E. M. (2025). Simulating water use and yield for full and deficit flood-irrigated cotton in Arizona, USA. Agronomy, 15(9), 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy15092023
Farooqi, Z.U.R., Ahmad, I., Sabir, M., Jamal, A., Qadir, A.A., Hopkins, B.G., Ashraf, M.N. 2025. Gypsum and Manure Impacts on Contrasting Textured Saline-Sodic Soils and Greenhouse Gas Emissions. J Soil Sci Plant Nutr. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42729-025-02852-8
Flint, E.A., M.A. Yost, & B. G. Hopkins. 2025. On-farm variable rate nitrogen management in irrigated potato. Precision Agric 26, 62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11119-025-10255-z
Frene, J. P., Kasera, N., Jaisi, D. P., Sapkota, S., O'Connell, D. W., Higgins, S., Adhikari, S., & Ghimire, R. (2025). Enhancing soil health and phosphorus use efficiency with modified biochar amendment. Science of the total environment, 1004, 180794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180794
Gelardi, D.L., Lazicki, P.A., Rath, D., Leinfelder-Miles, M.M., Scow, K.M., Geisseler, D., Parikh, S.J. Three-year field trials with seven biochars reveal minor changes in soil chemical properties but no impact on crop yield. Field Crops Research, 325: 109807.
Graham, C., Sanyal, D., Brennan, J., & Olson, K. (2025). Short‐term effects of livestock on northern, semi‐arid US Great Plains spring wheat grain yield. Agronomy Journal, 117(5), e70149. https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.70149
Grover, K., J. L. Safanelli, J. Sanderman, B. G. Hopkins, and C. Brungard. 2025. The utility of laboratory measurement uncertainty: A case-study using the open soil spectral library service. European Journal of Soil Science 76, no. 4: e70166. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70166.
Islam, M.R., Abdullah, H.M., Rahman, M.F., Islam, M., Tuhin, A.K., Ashiquzzaman, M., Islam, K.S., Geisseler, D. Mitigation of water-deficit stress in soybean by seaweed extract: The integrated approaches of UAV-based remote sensing and a field trial. Drones, 9: 487.
Jadhav S., DeVetter L.W., LaHue G.T., Spencer S.L., Prudencio A., Caldana C., Fernie A.R., and M. Borghi. 2025. Nitrogen fertilizer exerts little impact on highbush blueberry floral chemistry, pollinator visitation, yield, and fruit quality. Physiol. Plant., 177:70526. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.70526
Jones, C.A., Zabinski, C.A., Miller, P.R., D'Agati, K., Tallman, S.M. & Housman, M.L. 2025. Soil health responses to cover crop functional group and richness in semi-arid Montana. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 89:e70045. http://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.70045
Khorram, M., Sanyal, D., & Kumar, S. (2026). More than just spectra: the synergistic role of pH in advancing hyperspectral SOC prediction. Catena, 263, 109712. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2025.109712
Koenig R.T. and P.R. Grossl. 2025. Urban Soil Management. Chapter 5 In: WSU Master Gardener Manual. WSU Extension EC0001, Pullman, WA.
Koenig R.T. and T.C. Koenig. 2025. Plant Mineral Nutrition and Fertilizers. Chapter 4 In: WSU Master Gardener Manual. WSU Extension EC0001, Pullman, WA.
Leytem, A.B., Moore, A.D., Dungan, R.S., Rogers, C.W., & Strausbaugh, C. (2025). Utilization of dairy manure in sugar beet production. Crop Science, 65, e70144. doi.org/10.1002/csc2.70144 (ARIS: 4238332)
Mahato, G., Plunkett, R., Singh, S., Barroso, J., B., Machado, S., Namdar, G., Graebner, R., Adams, C., Weinke, C., Durfee, N., Calderon, F., and Hagerty, C. 2025. Short-Term Effects of Cover Crop Rotation on Soilborne Pathogens of Winter Wheat in Traditional Crop-Fallow Systems. Phyto Frontiers Journal, https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTOFR-01-25-0007-R
Mayernik, C.M., Ewing, S.A., DeGrandpre, M.D., Koffman, T.N.B., Foster, M.J., Dixon, J.L., Jones, C.A., Reinhold, A.M., & Payn, R.A. 2025. Riparian processes in semi-arid landscapes: Understanding controls on nitrate loss and sulfate production in agricultural stream corridors. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 130, e2024JG008559. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008559
Montazar, A., Geisseler, D., Cahn, M. Assessing water and nitrogen management practices in drip-irrigated desert lettuce. Horticulturae, 2025(11): 1507.
Okorie, B., S. Sharma, M. D. Toor, and M. Yost. (2025). Biofertilizer Research in Global Drylands: A Bibliometric Insights for Sustainable Agriculture. Bibliometric Insights from Biofertilizer Research in Dryland Agriculture. Applied Soil Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.106686.
Petrazelka, P., J.D. Ulrich-Schad, and M.A. Yost. 2025. Utah producers and soil health: Digging deeper. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-024-10697-7.
Ramirez, P., Calderon, F., Singh, S., and Machado, S. 2025. Legume-Based Rotation Enhance Long-Term Soil Carbon Storage in Eastern Oregon Dryland Wheat Systems. Nature Scientific Reports Journal. 15(1), 13842. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-98916-x
Rogers, C., J.A. Spackman, D. Tarkalson, G. Hu, J. Marshall, O. Adeyemi, and C. Evans. 2025. Irrigated Spring Hull-less Food Barley Response to Nitrogen Fertilizer. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 89.2 (2025): e70029 https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.70029
Rogers, C.W., *Pramanik, C., Hu G., Marshall, J.M., Tarkalson, D.D., Hatzenbuehler, P., & Evans, C. (2025). Irrigated malt barley nitrogen management: Insights from historical and modern cultivars. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 89, e70124. doi.org/10.1002/saj2.70124 (ARIS: )
Rogers, C.W., Adams, C.B., Marshall, J.M., Thurgood, G., Dari, B., Loomis, G. (2025). Barley grain yield-mineral nutrient concentrations, uptake, and harvest indices relationships. Journal of Plant Nutrition, 48(20), 3722–3733. https://doi.org/10.1080/01904167.2025.2522248 (ARIS: 425361)
Rogers, C.W., Thurgood, G., Dari, B., Sihi, D., Marshall, J.M. (2025). Barley, corn, and wheat residue decomposition as affected by tillage and nitrogen rate in semi-arid conditions. Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment, 8, e70229. doi.org/10.1002/agg2.70229 (ARIS: 423852)
Santiago, S.T., Clark, N., Leinfelder-Miles, M., Light, S., Mathesius, K., Wilson, R., Parikh, S., Savidge, M., Geisseler, D. Nitrogen mineralization from soil organic matter under field conditions in California soil. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 89: e70055.
Sharry, R. L., Smith, M., Moulay, H., Souza, J., Sharma, S., & Arnall, D. B. (2025). Soil pH influence on cotton lint yield and quality. Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/agg2.70065
Sharry, R., Arnall, D. B., Phillips, S., & Souza, J. B. (2025). Recovery of beef cattle manure nitrogen in a long-term winter wheat fertility study. Nitrogen, 6(2), 28. https://doi.org/10.3390/nitrogen6020028
Simmons, R., T. Koenig and R.T. Koenig. 2025. Waterwise Landscaping. Chapter 25 In WSU Master Gardener Manual. WSU Extension EC0001, Pullman, WA.
Singh N., Flury M., Neely H., Akin I., Bary A., and G.T. LaHue. 2025. Compaction of a sandy loam soil not impacted by long-term biosolids applications. Soil Tillage Res. 253:106648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2025.106648
Singh, S., Singh, S., Schillinger, W. F., Neely, H., Cappellazzi, S. B., and Norris, C. 2024. Does crop intensity translate into better soil health in dryland wheat systems? Applied Soil Ecology 204, 105728 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105728
Singh, S., Singh, S., Schillinger, W., Griffin-LaHue, D., and Neely, H. 2024. Biosolids’ legacy benefits persist even seven years after the application in a dryland wheat-fallow cropping system. Soil Use and Management Journal 40, e13163. https://doi.org/10.1111/sum.13163.
Stapley, S.H., C.S. McIntosh, M.A. Yost, N.C. Hansen, R.C. Christensen, B. G. Hopkins. 2025. Stacking and intersecting nitrogen 4Rs on potato: Economic analysis. American Journal of Potato Research. 102, 440–448. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12230-025-09999-1
Strohm, T. N., Fonte, S., Ghimire, R., Mikha, M. M., Adebayo, O., Bista, P., Acosta-Martinez, V., Angadi, S., & Schipanski, M. (2025). Soil health indicators for water-limited regions: Evaluating relative sensitivity to compost and cropping intensification [Article]. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 80(4), 438-458. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224561.2025.2477320
Stubbs, L., Singh, S., Wysocki, D., Heineck, G., Neely, H., and Singh, S. 2025. Improving Sustainability of inland Pacific Northwest Rain-Fed Agriculture Systems with Pea-Canola Intercropping: A Review. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Journal, 9, 1639908. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2025.1639908
Sullivan, T., M. Yost, D. Boren, E. Creech, G. Cardon, and B. Bugbee. 2025. Response of floral hemp to fertilizer nitrogen and phosphorus rates. Agrosystems, Geosciences, and Environment. 8(2): e70125. https://doi.org/10.1002/agg2.70124.
Sun, L,, Safanelli, J.L., Sanderman, J., Georgiou, K., Brungard, C., Grover, K., Hopkins, B.G., Liu, S., Bremer, T. 2025. Self-supervised and Multi-fidelity Learning for Extended Predictive Soil Spectroscopy. arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.15965.
Tarkalson, D.D., Olsen, D., Bjorneberg, D.L., & C.W. Rogers (2025). The case for static range nitrogen management in Northwest U.S. Sugarbeet production. Soil Science Society of America, 89, e70025. doi.org/10.1002/saj2.70025 (ARIS: 414008)