Nitrogen Miser

As every agronomy student knows, three things are required to produce a crop moisture, sunlight and nutrients. The challenge is to make sure crops receive just the right amount of each, at just the proper time. Managing nutrients especially nitrogen is one of the greatest challenges. That’s because even if the proper amount is applied

New twists on growing nitrogen, building soil organic matter

It is well known that alfalfa and other legumes in a crop rotation fix nitrogen from the atmosphere into the soil. What may be less widely understood, however, is the extra boost that more diverse crop rotations offer to long-term yields in the form of increased organic matter. This phenomenon is described by soil scientists


Slower is better for N uptake: UAP

UAP has launched a new slow-release nitrogen fertilizer that it says will allow farmers to plan around a “more targeted” foliar N application later in a growing season. The product, N-Pact, is a patented 26-0-0 Triazone fol iar formulat ion, which “allows better foliar uptake without the leaf burning often associated with other nitrogen fertility