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Article: Route 3: Fertilize for Keeps.(cation exchange capacity)
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- Farm Journal
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- October 5, 2007
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Byline: Darrell Smith
High corn prices could make this the most profitable era of your farming career. But growing more corn takes more fertilizer, and fertilizer prices are booming right along with corn acreage.
It's no time to short your crop on nutrients or apply more than needed-especially when excess nutrients can decrease yield in some situations. Maybe it's time to move up to the next level of fertilizer management, suggests Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie.
Traditional fertility techniques may have served you well when there was less at stake. You probably applied phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) according to one of two ...
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