Fertility/Nutrients
There are three main sources of plant nutrients available to farmers: commercial fertilizers, livestock manure, and municipal sewage sludge or biosolids. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The soils of the Northern Great Plains tend to be geologically young soils. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
With declining phosphorus (P) fertility levels across the Prairies, growers may be leaving more yield in the field than they think. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Higher seeding rates and increased nitrogen fertility give biggest bang for a farmer's buck. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Research on applying liquid livestock manure as a spring top-dress fertilizer to wheat has been ongoing in Ohio for several years. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Blindly applying manure to a field is a lot like navigating a certain creek without a paddle – it doesn’t work. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Oat production, like other crops, requires nitrogen (N) fertilizer and other nutrients for maximizing yields. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Wheat is one of the most important food crops in the world. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
There's more to it than hitting the target level for this season's crop needs. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Next to nitrogen, phosphorus is the second most limiting soil nutrient in crop production on the Prairies. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Camelina and carinata are proving to have a fit in some areas of the Prairie provinces. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
New product - Magnesium DDP - available to Canadian and US growers. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The 4R Nutrient Stewardship formalizes a joint commitment to support agriculture production and environmental protection through improved fertilizer use. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers! 1 comments
Soil is one of the common factors that bring all agriculture together. Regardless of what you farm, the quality of the soil is important. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The Canadian Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust is pleased to announce their 2013 recipients – Gayl Creutzberg, Clayton Robins and E. Blake Vince. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Offshore sales of potash have slumped in the second half of 2012. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
If free nitrogen at 40 pounds per acre doesn’t interest you, maybe the other benefits will, says Manitoba’s advocate for alternative agriculture, Dr. Martin Entz. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The Canadian government has made an investment of $350,000 to develop cost effective tools to reduce methane and nitrous oxide emissions on farm. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The eBook contains all the subject matter contained within the original hardcopy formats that IPNI released earlier in 2012... Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The Ontario Bean Producers launched a product to test efficacy of charcoal soil additives... Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!