Nutrient Management Guide (RB209)
The Nutrient Management Guide (RB209) helps you make the most of organic materials and balance the benefits of fertiliser use against the costs – both economic and environmental. The guide explains the value of nutrients, soil and why good nutrient management is about more than just the fertilisers you buy; it can save you money as well as help protect the environment. The Nutrient Management Guide is published as seven sections.
RB209 Publications
For hard copy owners of RB209, please refer to this amendment sheet
The AHDB Nutrient Management Guide (RB209) offers best practice guidance on the application of mineral fertilisers, manures and slurries to crops and grassland.
In this section you will find information on the nutrient content of organic materials such as manures, compost and digestate.
In this section you will find information on how to determine the nutrient requirements of grass and forage crops.
In this section you will find information on how to determine the nutrient requirements of cereals, oilseeds, peas and beans, sugar beet and biomass crops.
In this section you will find information on how to determine the nutrient requirements of potatoes.
In this section you will find information on how to determine the nutrient requirements of vegetables and bulbs.
In this section you will find information on how to determine the nutrient requirements of fruit, vines and hops
RB209: Nutrient Management App
All seven sections of the Nutrient Management Guide (RB209) can now be downloaded as an app.
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News
5 July 2019
We're looking for farms across GB to participate in a project about into reducing P on dairy farms
1 March 2019
Once more SPot Scotland has shown you can vastly reduce nitrogen use without seeing any negative impact on yield or crop quality. In fact, we have seen better yields when less nitrogen has been applied.
6 February 2019
Rainfall levels have been below average so far this winter and this has implications for nutrient management
25 January 2019
Nutrient Management Guide RB209 updated with new guidance
4 January 2019
In this episode, we look at results from AHDB's Look Ahead survey of the Recommended Lists; what our Sittingbourne Monitor Farm group discussed around learning from organic and some interim cover crop findings..
8 August 2018
An innovative set of trials has helped farmers test the accuracy of nitrogen (N) management in their winter wheat crops
19 October 2018
A lowering of RB209 phosphate offtake values for cereals could be justified, according to results from an AHDB-funded review.
31 July 2018
Two new AHDB research projects on nitrogen (N) and sulphur (S) management in oats and wheat have been bolstered by a half a million pound co-investment from industry
UK Partnership for Crop Nutrition
AHDB updates the Nutrient Management Guide (RB209) in partnership with a number of organisations. The partnership is organised as a Steering Group supported by three Technical Working Groups.
Members of the Steering and Technical Working Groups fund research and/or knowledge exchange on crop nutrient management. The partnership coordinates the research and knowledge exchange it funds to generate independent, scientifically robust and practical data on crop nutrient management for the UK. All of the research used to update the Nutrient Management Guide (RB209) is published by AHDB.
Meet George Lawrie
George is Chairman of the Steering Group and farms in Scotland. He grows spring barley for seed in partnership with his brother on their family farm in Kinross, Perthshire.
| He has worked extensively with the NFUS, where he is treasurer, past chair of the Land Use and Environment Committee and also represents NFUS on AHDB’s Cereals & Oilseeds Board. George also chairs Scottish Agronomy, a co-op based in East Scotland that provides trials and advice to members, who farm around 50,000 hectares of cereals and potatoes. He said: "Crop nutrition is one of the key elements to optimising production in the field. "As a farmer, I use all the tools available to ensure that I manage resources efficiently, in terms of soil, applications and plant health.” "And I'm not alone, over 68 per cent of farms have a nutrient management plan, a high proportion of them revisit these resources year after year to continue to manage crop nutrition. Therefore, it is important that we have the correct information to make these decisions.” |
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Membership
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Livestock TWG |
Arable TWG |
Horticulture TWG |
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Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) DAERA FACTS Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) Defra BBRO PGRO PNMG Scottish Government Welsh Government Association of Independent Crop Consultants (AICC) |
AFBI AgriSearch British Society of Plant Breeders (BSPB) CAFRE CF Fertilisers Creedy Associates CSF DERFA FACTS Frontier Meat Promotion Wales Potash Development Association (PDA) Quality Meat Scotland Scottish Government SRUC Teagasc Welsh Government
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AICC Agrii BBRO BSPB British Sugar CSF CF Fertilisers UK DARD DEFRA Frontier Hutchinsons K+S Kali UK OMEX Pepsico International PGRO PDA Scottish Government Secanim SRUC Teagasc Welsh Government YARA
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Agrii Agrovista Bord na Mona British Hops Bulrush DARD DEFRA Everris FAST llp Fresh Gro Hutchinsons ICL Group J&A Growers Lucozade Ribena Suntory New Forest Fruits OMEX PGRO Plant Impact SRUC UK Vineyard Association Welsh Government
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