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Tolls, However, information on hormone transport The field study was conducted from April to July in soils under field conditions is lacking. This infor- silt loam soil coarse-silty, mixed, mesic Fluventic Hap- mation is critical in determining if there are environmental lustoll. Soils were characterized in a previous study Aga risks and the effects of agricultural management practices et al.

Average percent organic matter and pH are that will minimize risks associated with land application of summarized in table 1 for reference.

The average water manure. Given the number of variables that could affect the content of the soil is 0. The manure storage, level and frequency of manure application, climate at North Platte, Nebraska, is semi-arid, with an precipitation, soil type, etc.

On average, about periment. Each lysimeter feedlot located at the Haskell Agricultural Laboratory near contained an undisturbed soil core with a diameter of 0. Forty-eight heifers and a depth of 2.

Both The lysimeters had been used successfully for several ni- implants were purchased from Intervet, Inc. Merck Animal trate-leaching experiments Klocke et al. The heifers also received 0. Animal waste, accumulated on A randomized block design with three treatments and the feedlot surface, was removed using a box scraper and three replications nine plots with lysimeters was used for placed in six separate piles that were either composted this study. The treatments consisted of stockpiled manure, three piles or stockpiled three piles.

The average weight composted manure, and a control no manure, commercial of the piles was to kg. The manure was placed on a concrete pad under a roof to prevent rainfall from en- Table 1. Average soil properties of the experimental field at the West- Central Research and Extension Center, North Platte, Nebraska, as tering the manure piles.

Water and corn silage were added reported by Aga et al. There was a one-time ap- 0. Corn silage 0. Manure was surface applied to the lysimeters Table 2. Cropping history and irrigation applied during study period.

The control Soybean None plots received surface-applied commercial nitrogen fertiliz- er urea to match the manure N availability of kg N ha-1 of plant-available nitrogen. Additionally, potassium 1. Bromide concentrations were deter- Sampling was conducted 11 times from May to mined in leachate to identify the vertical transport rate be- December in , four times in May, June, Septem- neath each plot.

Soil samples were taken adjacent to but outside the the surrounding field in the fall of and , while lysimeter from each plot at six depths 0. Sprinkler was applied. After manure application, soil samples were irrigation was used once in and four times in To reduce sampling errors created by spatial ured using four rain gauges located adjacent to the study variability, five subsamples were taken from each depth.

All leachate and soil samples www. For water-equivalent data sis. Using 17 steroid hormones and their metabolites table 3. The these three data sources, a precipitation record was con- method details are reported elsewhere Snow et al. Addi- Hydroprobe, Boart Longyear Co.

Two tionally, leachate samples were analyzed for bromide at the aluminum access tubes were installed in each of the nine EPA National Environmental Research Laboratory in Ada, plots: one in the lysimeter and one in the adjacent plot. Soil Oklahoma, using flow injection colorimetric methods on an water content readings were recorded at 0. Seventeen steroid hormones and metabolites analyzed in this study, their instrument detection limits IDL , method detection limits MDL , and recoveries for water samples using on-line solid phase extraction SPE and soil samples using microwave-assisted solvent extraction MASE.

Spiked analyte concentrations are 5 ng L-1 for on-line SPE and 0. Standard quality control practices were fol- Instrumental detection and quantification of steroids lowed, including analyses of duplicates, reagent blanks, and from on-line extraction and MASE extracts utilized multi- fortified blanks. Brief- 30 min total. Each cartridge of the standards. Except for the corrective effect of isotope was eluted directly to a Waters HPLC followed by a dilution, analyte concentrations were not adjusted for recov- Micromass Quattro Micro triple-quadrupole mass spec- ery in samples.

The instrument detection limits, method de- trometer. A mixture of toluene and methanol was used as tection limits, and average recoveries for on-line SPE and the dopant to improve ionization efficiency Snow et al. Thus, the occurrence presence of half-life of 5 to 15 h in soils Khan and Lee, In con- steroids in leachate and soil samples was reported in terms trast, Schiffer et al.

However, unlike the current study, the above study was conducted with liquid manure under anaerobic conditions in a storage pit. The size and mois- moisture content, with composted manure having a higher ture level of a manure pile may influence the portion of the moisture content Eleven of the 17 steroids and metabolites were tion.

The occurrence limits. Khan et al. N[e] tification limit 0. This result is consistent Stockpiled 7. Considering this deg- radation pattern, it was unlikely that any MGA would be Table 5. The manure were applied to the lysimeters and surrounding remaining six steroid hormones or metabolites listed in table 3 were not detected in either composted or stockpiled manure.

Steroid Hormone Stockpiled Composted Detection of testosterone in composted manure may re- or Metabolite Manure[a] Manure[b] flect enzymatic microbial transformation of progesterone [c] Testosterone ND 5. Bartelt-Hunt et al. It required to mm of water leachate 46 days after excretion. Klocke et al. Identifying higher soil water content from the later part of to the the exact sources of these compounds in our study was end of the study fig.

For the produced by commonly found Fusarium fungus in fer- control and the composted manure treatments, this was mented corn Hartmann et al. There was no de- the environment. As discussed earlier, the potential biologi- tection of any steroids or metabolites in the leachate from cal significance of these levels can only be adequately plots treated with composted manure throughout the study evaluated after determining the mobility and persistence in period fig.

The Br concentration oid analysis over the study period from April to July curve indicated that the average transport time in the stock- Because of occasionally insufficient leachate, often associated with lower soil water content, not all lysimeters were sampled every time. The average soil water content over the eight depths is given in figure 1. Statistical analy- sis was performed for four dates of soil water measure- ment: one date in July in each of the four study years.

In July and July , the average soil water contents of the composted and stockpiled manure treatment plots were significantly lower than that of the Figure 2. Relative bromide concentration in leachate as a function of control treatment plot.

Bromide was applied to the lysimeters in June Steroid hormone concentration and cumulative bromide mass found in leachate from percolation lysimeters in a composted manure, b stockpiled manure, and c control treatments. White symbols are data from replica- tion 1, black symbols are data from replication 2, and gray symbols are data from replication 3.

Pro- fig. The fact that steroid age in May , again before Br, also in the stockpiled hormones were detected in leachate before bromide may be manure treatment fig. The endogenous hormones testos- terone 0. Possible sources of these endogenous hormones and sampling events , and one sampling event. A sum- mycotoxin include wildlife and residues from earlier ma- mary of the steroid hormone analysis of soil samples is nure application. The presence of both zeranol-related Fusarium 4-androstenedione was detected within the top 0.

According to studies by Lee et al. There was a nearly equal , it is likely that transformation and persistence are frequency of detections in each treatment, although the the controlling factors in the soil profile. Estrone was de- types of hormones or metabolites were different. Most tected at the 0. In the stockpiled 2. Table 6. Detected hormone concentration in soil ng g-1 for various depths cm, in parentheses and sampling dates. Pretreatment April samples are shown in italics.

Blanks - indicate hormone not detected. Seven hormones, not listed here, were not detected in any soil samples. No detectable levels of synthetic steroids were nure samples, but it was detected in soil samples from both present in any of the soil or leachate samples.

Lai et al. It may be assumed that the chemical fate and tle manure can serve as a source and reservoir for these transport of estriol will be similar to that of other estrogens. However, leaching through Microbial transformation of parent compounds in soil the soil profile may occur slowly and seems to be an un- fertilized with both the composted and stockpiled manure likely source of these chemicals in groundwater.

Earlier both composted and stockpiled manure. Estriol is known to detections of several steroids before the tracer Br may be be a degradation product of estrone but is typically not as due to preferential flow Kjaer et al.

Similar conversions must have oc- ; Peterson et al. In addition, ganic compounds, may be a threat to groundwater. The limitations of this study should be recognized, and the results should not be generalized too much. We thank Don Da- gle manure application during the four-year duration of the vison and Jim Petersen for their technical assistance.

Moreover, a different row crop, such as Aga, D. Connor, S. Ensley, J. Payero, D. Snow, and D. Determination of the persistence of tetracycline more manure and hence created a potential for more ster- antibiotics and their degradates in manure-amended soil using oids in the soil-water system. On the other hand, a soil with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Food Chem. Dahan, S. Elhanany, K. Cohen, I. Pankratov, A.

Gross, tachment to soil or sediment Lee et al. Ronen, S. Baram, and L. Transport of Another factor that may have affected the results of this testosterone and estrogen from dairy-farm waste lagoons to study was the source and management of manure. In par- groundwater. Snow, T. Soil texture, mi- groundwater impacted by livestock waste control facilities. Bartelt-Hunt, S. Snow, W. Kranz, T. Shapiro, S. Tarkalson, and T. Effect in the movement of these steroids in the environment.

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