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Spring 2008
The heat is on! Both the markets and the issues
that impact the fertilizer industry have heated up
for 2008. High prices for both crops and inputs mean
greater profit possibilities from applying the right
fertilizer at the right rate, time, and place. At
the same time, international action on global ecological
issues including greenhouses gases has deep implications
for fertilizer management.
The International Plant Nutrition Institute offers
several new information sources that sort through
the issues and help you improve the use efficiency
of plant nutrients. Check out the following:
Research results:
The more we work on improving N recommendations,
the more we see the strong role played by the weather.
A recent symposium focused on the sciences that could
be applied to account for weather variability. The
proceedings, Managing
Crop Nitrogen for Weather, are available for
purchase from IPNI. A recent article in Better
Crops with Plant Food also summarizes the findings: A
Research Agenda for Managing Crop Nitrogen for Weather.
Coming events:
6-10 July 2008. Canadian
Society of Soil Science Annual Meeting. University
of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC.
13-16 July 2008. Montreal
'08: Plants & Soils. Joint Meeting of the
Canadian Societies of Agronomy and Horticultural
Science and the Northeastern Branch of ASA-CSSA-SSSA.
McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
19 July 2008. Dig
It! The Secrets of Soil opens at the Smithsonian
National Museum of Natural History in Washington,
DC.
20–23 July 2008. 9th
International Conference on Precision Agriculture.
Hyatt Regency Tech Center, Denver, Colorado.
28-31 July 2008. SERA-17
Meeting. Organization to Minimize Phosphorus
Losses from Agriculture. Kent Island, Maryland.
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