Site-specific data on herbicide soil retention and ancillary environmental variables

Abstract

This article presents original geospatial data on soil adsorption coefficient (Kd) for two widely used herbicides in agriculture, glyphosate and atrazine. Besides Kds, the dataset includes site-specific soil data: pH, total nitrogen, total organic carbon, Na, K, Ca, Mg, Zn, Mn, Cu, cation exchange capacity, percentage of sand, silt and clay, water holding capacity, aluminum and iron oxides, as well as climatic and topographic variables. The quantification of herbicides soil retention was made on a sample of soils selected by Conditionated Latin Hypercube method to capture the underlying edaphoclimatic variability in Cordoba, Argentina. The glyphosate data presented here has been used to evaluate statistical methods for model-based digital mapping (F. Giannini Kurina, S. Hang, R. Macchiavelli, M. Balzarini, 2019) [1]. The dataset is made publicly available to enable future analyzes on processes that leads the dynamics of both herbicides in soil.