Wainfleet Monitor Farm meeting: Soil and crop nutrition

This meeting will look at the links between soil and crop nutrition and will focus particularly on how to maximise economic optimum yields and quality. We will be joined by ADAS Head of Crop Physiology Peter Berry.

Speaker: Peter Berry, Head of Crop Physiology, ADAS

To include:

• Nitrogen use efficiency – factors affecting and how to increase
• Achieving economic optimum yields
• Reducing fertilizer inputs
• Cost considerations
• Crop yield vs. quality
• Factors affecting quality and how to meet specs
• Assessing crop quality
• Yield vs. specific weight
• Use of trace elements
• Nutrient deficiencies and interactions
• Soil organic matter and crop nutrition
• Carbon : nitrogen ratio and organic matter sources
• Rotation effects
• Effect of cover crops on crop nutrition
• Legumes and grass in the rotation
• Reducing Nitrogen and phosphate losses
• Optimising soil phosphate
• Effectiveness of variable rate application for fertilizer
• Solid vs. liquid fertilizers
• Are late nitrogen applications cost effective?