crop nutrient Articles
-
Understand Crop Nutrients to Optimize Farm Management
Crop Nutrient Uptake and Removal Farming today is an increasingly complex business. However, when you break down the simplest function of agriculture, it’s all about nourishment. With the global population expected to reach nearly 10 billion by mid-century, nourishing your soil to meet this demand is increasingly essential to what you do. How often does crop nutrient uptake and removal ...
-
Is less more? Understanding the Law of Minimum to optimize your fertilizer strategy
Identify and correct crop nutrient deficiencies in your soil to increase yield and profit Achieving prosperity in Canadian agriculture is a balancing act. While new technologies increasingly grow your potential to overcome limiting factors and boost yields, oftentimes revisiting the basics will further support your efforts to reach an optimum balance in soil nutrients. A great place to start is ...
-
Impact assessment of pre- and post-sown irrigation with Post Methanation distillery Effluent on soil health and crop yield
Field experiments were conducted to assess the optimum dilution of Post Methanation distillery Effluent (PME) to utilise as an organic nutrient source for growing rice and wheat crops. Dilution levels of distillery effluent significantly affected the biomass production as well as grain yield of rice and wheat crops. Levels of organic carbon and NPK were significantly higher in effluent treated ...
-
Multivariate analysis and visualization of soil quality data for no-till systems
To evidence the multidimensionality of the soil quality concept, we propose the use of data visualization as a tool for exploratory data analyses, model building, and diagnostics. Our objective was to establish the best edaphic indicators for assessing soil quality in four no-till systems with regard to functioning as a medium for crop production and nutrient cycling across two Illinois ...
-
Drones: 4 Ways Drone Technology is Revolutionizing Farm Management
If you’ve ever flown a model airplane, you can fly a drone. If you haven’t flown a model airplane… you can still fly a drone. Because of how technology has evolved, it’s now easier than ever to take advantage of the new opportunities advancing ag tech has to offer. Over the last decade, drone technology has steadily been growing as part of a practical approach to ...
By Growers
-
Plan for success
Take a giant step ahead by using farm management software for your crop planning As the influx of agtech sweeps across fields today, the old adage that best-laid plans often go awry no longer applies to your farm. Crop plans may be as old as farming, but the latest in farm management software takes your farm’s success to a new level. “Crop plans may be as old as farming, but the ...
-
Healthy soil key to readying your fields for the coming season
The more you know about your soil, the better enabled you will be to make fertilizer decisions that work on every area of your farm While harvest brings the 2023 growing season to a close, preparation for next year is already underway. Pat Kunz has signed up to have his soil tested across all his fields in anticipation of making informed fertilizer purchases for the upcoming spring. He says ...
-
Irrigation and Nutrition
Mike, our Agronomist, was recently asked a few questions about irrigation and nutrition for a magazine. What quality parameters can be influenced (fruit size, flavour, firmness, shelf life, etc.)? All crop quality parameters can be enhanced through correct use of nutrition. Having the ideal strength and balance of nutrients at all stages of the crop cycle will help to ensure the best product ...
By Hortifeeds
-
Restoring Long Term Soil Health in Haiti with Organic Compost
Last summer, we shared results from a research project that was taken on by master’s students at Cranfield University. The students compared the efficiency of SOIL’s organic compost, Konpòs Lakay, to commercial grade chemical fertilizers available on the market. This comparison was used two core Haitian crops: tomato plants and moringa trees. When the preliminary results ...
By SOIL Haiti
-
Soil Nutrients and Field Health: what you Need to Know
The soil on your field is like the brain to your body. It tells your crops everything they need to know to produce a healthy yield; how many organisms live there, what the pH balance is, whether or not something is performing well… For the brain, if something isn’t performing well, the body can react catastrophically. The same thing happens with soil. If you have too much ...
By Growers
-
Make the Most Out of Each Farmable Acre
Variable rate technology increases production and manage costs while reducing waste We farm in a time where working smarter, rather than harder, is essential to running a successful, sustainable business. There’s an incredible push in agriculture today for you to balance economics on the farm with environmental practices that keep farmland healthy for generations to come. The key to ...
-
From Data to Action: Leveraging Soil NPK Sensor Insights for Optimal Crop Management
Optimizing Crop Yields and Resource Efficiency through Precision Agriculture In the pursuit of sustainable agriculture, precision farming has emerged as a game-changer, revolutionizing agricultural practices and fostering a more efficient and environmentally responsible approach to crop production. At the heart of precision farming lies the concept of real-time data acquisition, enabling farmers ...
-
Best hydroponic system for strawberries: from cultivation at soil to elevated cultivation
The world production in the cultivation of strawberries has multiplied exponentially in the last decade, Being Europe the continent that has found the most expansion in production worldwide(47,7% of the world’s production). Followed by northern and central America (29,40%) this huge development is due to the strong increase in its demand, as it is considered a fruit with a ...
-
The Role of Soil NPK Sensors
Agriculture is a crucial sector that provides food for the world's population. As the population continues to grow, the demand for food also increases. To meet this demand, farmers must produce more food with fewer resources. One of the ways to achieve this is by optimizing crop nutrition and maximizing yield. Soil NPK sensors have emerged as a useful tool for farmers to achieve these goals. Soil ...
-
The cloud isn`t just for rain anymore
Precision agriculture has been a key enabling technology to achieve higher yields with lower cost and less environmental impact, while keeping the cost of food fairly stable Has global agricultural productivity increased or decreased in the last 25 years? It has, in fact, more than doubled since 1985. Next to advances in seed genetics, precision agriculture has been a key enabling technology to ...
-
The Role of Soil NPK Sensors
Agriculture is a crucial sector that provides food for the world's population. As the population continues to grow, the demand for food also increases. To meet this demand, farmers must produce more food with fewer resources. One of the ways to achieve this is by optimizing crop nutrition and maximizing yield. Soil NPK sensors have emerged as a useful tool for farmers to achieve these goals. Soil ...
-
Extension workers' attitude towards usefulness of an integrated soil fertility and nutrient management approach in Bangladesh
The main focus of this study was to determine extension workers' attitude towards usefulness of Integrated Soil Fertility (ISF) and Nutrient Management (NM) approach for sustainable crop production. Data were collected from 64 extension workers from four districts in Bangladesh using face-to-face interview from December 2005 to January 2006. Findings indicated that more than two-thirds (68%) of ...
-
Impact of fly–ash–amended soil on growth and yield of crop plants
Fly Ash (FA), a waste product of thermal power stations, has great potential for use in agriculture, because it contains almost all macro as well as micronutrients. In view of the potential disposal problem of FA, this investigation was carried out to search an economical and eco–friendly solution of its disposal by using it as nutrient source in agriculture for growth of crop plants. FA ...
-
Soil management practices for sustainable agro-ecosystems
A doubling of the global food demand projected for the next 50 years poses a huge challenge for the sustainability of both food production and global and local environments. Today’s agricultural technologies may be increasing productivity to meet world food demand, but they may also be threatening agricultural ecosystems. For the global environment, agricultural systems provide both sources and ...
-
Nitrogen supply for cover crops and effects on peanut grown in succession under a no-till system
In Brazil, as no-till (NT) crop management expands, there is an increased interest in growing peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) with this system. However, it is not known if the preceding cover crop species, the amount of straw on the soil surface, or the N supplied to the cover crop will affect peanut grown in a NT system. An experiment was conducted on a Typic Haplorthox in Botucatu, São Paulo ...
Need help finding the right suppliers? Try XPRT Sourcing. Let the XPRTs do the work for you