Crop Fertility Articles
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Are you maxing out? Applying the Law of the Maximum gets the most from your fertility investment dollars
Avoid excess crop nutrients in your fertilizer strategy to maintain soil health and protect your pocketbook The push to produce higher yields per acre every year continues to weigh heavily on western Canadian farmers. That pressure is accompanied by economic and environmental concerns. Should you invest more money into crop nutrients to reach record yields? Will that investment pay off? Will ...
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Managing fertilizer’s salt effect in drought
During drought or dry conditions, salinity and pH levels can change quickly in the soil. While the forecast shouldn’t entirely dictate how you manage your farm, understanding and performing the best farming practices when adding seed-placed nutrients can help save your yields when the rain fails to ...
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The importance of soil health
Though it is the foundation of life, soil constitutes only a thin layer of material on the surface of our planet. It provides the necessary weathered minerals, organic materials, air, and water, which are the most precious resources for all living creatures. Plants find life in soil, as it provides a rooting medium and nutrient source for plants to grow. Through healthy plants, ...
By SOILCARES
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It’ll all be for the same purpose: to maximize the yield and take care of that soil
Brad McDougald jokes that farmers can always find something to complain about. “Doesn’t matter whether it’s too warm, too dry, too cold,” McDougald says with a chuckle. This year was a dry season in Drumheller, Alta., where his 2,500-acre farm produced about 40 per cent of its regular yield of wheat, canola, peas, lentils and barley. But for all the elements outside a ...
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6 Series PTO Shaft – Replacement of Bondioli & Pavesi PTO Shaft
A 6-Series PTO (Power Take-Off) shaft is a form of the shaft made of metal that is utilized for transferring power to a tractor or another source of power to a device or attachment. Its "6 Series" designation refers to the standard dimensions and specs of the shaft such as its length, diameter, and the spline's profile. PTO shafts of the 6 Series are often employed in agricultural applications ...
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7 Key Benefits of Farm Management Software
Farmers have been growing food for generations without using farm management software. But in today’s fast-paced and highly competitive food production landscape, farm management software, or FMS, is critical to success.Why Use Farm Management Software? A farm management software program implemented in an agricultural operation leads to reduced expenses, increased yields, better yield quality, ...
By AGRIVI
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From the Farm View - Duthie Farms
Craig Bews adopted variable rate technology on his Eatonia, SK farm over a decade ago. Bews has always had a passion for farming. A third generation farmer, Bews and his son, Darren, farm 10,000 acres in west central Saskatchewan. After trying a variety of crops over the years, they now grow primarily durum, canola and red lentils. The name ‘Duthie Farms’ derives from Craig’s ...
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How IoT drives precision agriculture more efficiently
The struggle for water management predicts to increase due to population expansion, urbanization, and climate change, with a particular impact on agriculture. By 2050, the world's population will reach over 10 billion people. Whether urban or rural, this population will require food to fulfill its necessities. When combined with the increased consumption of calories and more complex foods that ...
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Injection method of fertilization (Cultan technology)
Dosage of liquid fertilizers Liquid mineral fertilizers have already proven their advantages over granular fertilizers, these namely are prolonged action and maximum absorption of the active substance. So here is the question, what is the most effective way of using liquid fertilizers? Taking into consideration the reasons for transition to soil fertilizers, agronomists and farmers often point ...
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NPK compound fertilizer production line manufacturers talk about sulfur use methods
NPK compound fertilizer production line manufacturers often use sulfur to reduce soil pH value and improve saline alkali soil in agriculture. However, the use of sulfur as nutrient fertilizer in agricultural production has not attracted people's attention until recently. Sulfur is an inert, insoluble yellow crystalline solid. Commercially, it can be stored in the open air, and it remains ...
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Ammoniation granulation of NPK compound fertilizer production line
Compound fertilizer is suitable for all kinds of soil, wheat, corn, melon and fruit, peanut, vegetables, beans, flowers, fruit trees and other crops and economic crops. It is suitable for base fertilizer, seed fertilizer, topdressing, seed fertilizer and flushing application. The compound fertilizer produced by ammoniation granulation NPK compound fertilizer production line adopts ammoniation and ...
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Production equipment and process analysis of agricultural special NPK fertilizer
NPK production line can process different chemical fertilizers to obtain agricultural special crop compound fertilizer. NPK fertilizer granulation process can be generally divided into: raw material batching, NPK fertilizer mixing, compound fertilizer granulation, particle drying, particle cooling, particle grading, finished product coating and final product packaging. Processing technology of ...
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What is the development trend of organic fertilizer production process?
Organic fertilizer production process uses straw, livestock and poultry organic matter as raw materials, and harmless treatment of pollutants through equipment to produce organic fertilizer. This production project mainly uses chicken, duck, goose, pig excrement and crop straw as the main raw materials, uses the natural fermentation of microbial flora and organic matter, adds nitrogen release ...
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Evolution of satellite image data in agriculture
Mapping and monitoring of agricultural areas are an ideal application for satellite image data as big areas can be easily covered in a very cost-efficient way. Today, it is essential for farmers not just to get data, which would increase their workload, but to get concrete, straight-to-the-point recommendations on what precisely to do on the field in terms of irrigation, fertilizing, and ...
By cloudeo
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Top Dressing Fertilizer in Western Canada
Western Canada has a short growing season which makes another pass for top dressing fertilizer sometimes difficult to achieve. Many crops have the fertilizer applied during the seeding season with Liquid Distribution Systems, (like these kits we make here). Often this will meet the crops fertilizer requirements for the whole season. Making one pass makes sense in a season that brings the right ...
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Prospect and production of coated controlled release fertilizer
Coated controlled release fertilizer The traditional chemical fertilizer, such as N or a certain proportion of N, P, K compound fertilizer, is coated with a special biological or chemical water soluble polymer film. Based on the characteristics of film thickness, particle radius, diffusion coefficient, nutrient composition and dissolution, the release rate and amount of fertilizer nutrient are ...
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Detailed introduction of three fertilizer production lines: disc, drum and double roller
When many customers purchase fertilizer production equipment, there are many choices and inquiries about the three production lines: disc granulator production line, drum granulator production line and double roller granulator production line. Many people don't understand the principles of these fertilizer production processes and the specific equipment. In fact, a set of fertilizer production ...
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Difference between the production machines of organic fertilizer and compound fertilizer
The internal quality of organic fertilizer mainly depends on raw material fermentation and product formula. The key factors affecting the fermentation of organic fertilizer production process are: microorganism, carbon nitrogen ratio, carbon phosphorus ratio, water content, pH value, aeration control. If one factor is not properly controlled, the whole fermentation will be affected, resulting in ...
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Necessity of the development of new organic fertilizer equipment
1. The necessity of developing new organic fertilizer. Fertilizer is one of the decisive factors for the high yield and quality of grain. The use of fertilizer has made a great contribution to the increase of crop production and the alleviation of food shortage. Fertilizer plays a very important role. In the past, the fertilizers used by people were relatively single, lacking fertilizers for ...
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How to Simplify your Test Plots and Maximize Investments
Remember the old days of running test plots? Stopping in the field to place marker flags and make the necessary changes. Then returning in the fall to — with any luck — find the flags and weigh each load. Not to mention the deskwork that followed to evaluate the results. And for me, with a full schedule that includes a 3,200-acre operation plus my wife and three kids, it wasn’t ...
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