nitrification

Really great to see so many dedicated soil farmers on the launch webinar for TRUTH. We'll post some the unanswered questions on here, but please post your own & we'll ensure they're addressed. In the meantime, here's an article on Biological Nitrification Inhibition wheats. BOFIN & JIC are...

Written by Rachael Harper from CPM Magazine As new season fertiliser purchasing begins, how will the new Defra requirements regarding the use of urea affect the coming season? CPM finds out. By Rob Jones Although urea accounts for 80% of the world’s nitrogen fertiliser, the high potential...

Agrecalc has already produced over 20,000 carbon reports for more than 9,000 farm enterprises The award-winning farm carbon calculator, Agrecalc, will be launching its state-of-the-art version of the platform – Agrecalc Cloud – at this year’s Royal Highland Show. One of the first carbon...

My N use is usually 100% liquid and as a result includes urea as part of it's nitrogen (as most liquid N products do ?) I assume the new 2024 rule that prevent urea use after 1st April also apply to liquid fertilisers and not just straight 46% solid product ? Will liquid product now come with...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF The connection between plants and the rhizosphere is an area of huge interest to scientists. CPM learns how understanding these interactions may lead to the introduction of beneficial root traits on crop plants. By Heather Briggs...

Lindsay Campbell New research quantifies the fertilizer lifecycle and outlines various approaches to make the industry more sustainable. It’s well known that fertilizer use is a culprit in greenhouse gas emissions, but now we have a sense of how much and when emissions are triggered...

Two-thirds of carbon emissions from fertilisers take place after they are spread on fields. - Photo: Peter Roek Researchers at Cambridge University have calculated that carbon emissions from fertilisers could be reduced by as much as 80% by 2050. According to the researchers manure and synthetic...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Making sure crops get ‘just enough’ of the right nutrients at the right time so that they have every chance of living up to their potential requires some detective work. CPM takes a forensic look at some of the tools available to help...

DOWNLOAD REPORT! This report examines the mitigation potential of climate friendly soil management practices at global, EU and German level, along with key management measures, their co-benefits and trade-offs, and implementation challenges. Globally, soils store two to three times more carbon...

Nitrogen Stabilisers (part 2): Carbon Inputs Joel Williams, Integrated Soils In part 1 of this article, we highlighted that both urease and nitrification inhibitors have a minor impact on soil biology but there remains some concern over the negative impact of urease inhibitors on the plants...

What's the difference other than £60/t? Does the protected stuff milk the cows for me or transport the grass to the silage pit? Or is it another magic potion created by someone clever? What time of the year do you need to switch to ammonium nitrate? End of may/early June?

Reducing tillage could result in less production of a potent greenhouse gas, according to a study out of Penn State University. Nitrous oxide, also known as “laughing gas,” is the most important greenhouse gas after methane and carbon dioxide and the biggest human-related threat to the ozone...

Toward more sustainable tropical agriculture with cover crops: Soil microbiome responses to nitrogen Highlights • Microbial community changes are dependent on cover crop species under no-till. • Palisade grass enhances soil chemical properties, crop yield and microbial diversity. • N...

Managing the soil is a big part of farming. In recent years there’s been a rapid shift to low-carbon agriculture. This is an opportunity for farmers to focus on practices and innovations that help soils become more sustainable for farmers and the environment, particularly in storing carbon to...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Keeping nitrogen losses to a minimum is in the interests of growers, the environment and public health. CPM looks at new trials which quantify potential N losses (as ammonia) to the air and how this can be mitigated to conform with new...

Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University The development of synthetic nitrogen (N) production allowed a boom in agricultural yields and population growth worldwide Whilst N is growth-limiting, it is regularly applied at levels where less than half is used by the plants, wasting input...

While total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the EU have fallen by a third since 1990, reducing emissions in the agriculture sector has been a slower process and has stagnated since 2005. Based on EU countries’ current policies and measures, this trend is projected to continue, with only a 1.5%...

Highlights • Tillage intensity, bulk/rhizosphere, growth stage, interactions affected communities. • Soybean rhizospheres showed stronger selection than corn on community composition. • Denitrification genes lower in abundance in no-till soils relative to plowed or disked. • Abundances in genes...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) senior advisor, Alan Agnew, has highlighted steps that dairy farmers can take to lower the carbon footprint of their businesses. “Genomics will play a key role in this context,” he said...

Who (if anyone) is still doing this in the UK ? I looked at it in some detail a few years ago and it made absolute sense (and that was when N was cheap !). logistically it was a nightmare however Who are the experts on this to speak with ? It should be a no brainer at current N price...