Russell

You don’t smell anhydrous ammonia unless you’re paying attention, but that scent marks the moment when planning stops being abstract and starts costing money. Nitrogen … Read more

Even if you purchase premium seed potatoes, neglecting the fertility plan based off what’s in the soil will result in subpar crops. Most growers starts … Read more

Your tomato plants look perfectly green right now, but the fruit is starting to turn in at the shoulders. Hmm. Calcium deficiency? But then how … Read more

Sweet corn is picky about its nutrition. Timing matters for when to apply it too. “Just topdress with a general fertilizer mix” you may think, … Read more

By July the stalks is too high; they just bend over and lie down. That’s what happens to a lot of people who grow oats.” … Read more

A sugarcane field takes plenty of nutrients out of ground. Nitrogen, Phosphorous, and Potassium (NPK) is used up heavily during growth, leaving many fields with … Read more

When you sit down with paper and pencil, planning fertilizer application can be clean and easy: the math is straightforward and it looks like you … Read more

With corn, it’s too late for you to know if there was a nutrient deficiency when first stalk starts to turn yellow (at which point … Read more

At first glance, sunflowers seem easy: just stand up straight and flower. But getting there takes some complex nutrition. From emergence until harvest, it’s like … Read more

Nitrogen is not like phosphorus. Nitrogen does gets washed out with a big storm, but at least it goes some distance. Phosphorus doesn’t go much … Read more