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Recommended Fertilizer Rates (B)

Best Management Practice Area: 
Fertilizer Use Efficiencies

The amount of nutrient applied (recommended nutrient application rates) are calculated based on many different factors. Crop nutrient budgeting, recent yields, soil productivity, climatic conditions, level of management, nutrient costs, expected return, and University of Minnesota Extension Service guidelines are all factors used in selecting an application rate.

http://www.eorinc.com/documents/AG-BMPHandbookforMN_09_2012.pdf pg. 49-51

 

  • UMN Nutrient Management Home Page

http://www.extension.umn.edu/agriculture/nutrient-management/index.html

 

  • Nitrogen Fertilizer Best Management Practices

http://www.mda.state.mn.us/protecting/bmps/nitrogenbmps.aspx

 

  • American Farmland Trust- Fertilizer application Research

http://www.farmland.org/resources/documents/AFT_FertilizerApplicationResearchStudy.pdf

 

  • Vermillion River Watershed

Has special N application rates, focus on UM application rates

 

Phyllis Bongaard, UM Extension, Dakota County - Nitrogen Fertilizer Research– Goal is to get people to adopt BMPs for N

 

Porosity of soil led to concern about City of Hastings

 

Nitrate Study, Drinking Water Supply – Jill Trescott, Dakota County -

 

Kevin Chamberland, organic producer

 

Trout Unlimited partnerships with streambank restoration