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Download PDF A greater percentage of soil-applied phosphate (90-95%) and potash fertilisers (60%) remains in an unavailable form than is actually used by the crop. CPM explores how growers can rely less on solid fertiliser as well as improve nutrient uptake, assimilation and utilisation, while maintaining yields. It’s been generally accepted as okay that a crop only utilises 5-10% of the phosphate applied. By Lucy de la Pasture In the words of Socrates: ‘change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new’. It’s fair to say that the world has changed significantly, even within the current cropping year. Tomorrow’s problems have very much become the pressing issues of the day, particularly when it comes to crop nutrition. Change that has been coming has accelerated in the topsy-turvy economics which follow a pandemic and have been further distorted by Putin’s war. For many reasons it’s a good time to think differently about how to ‘build the new’ and still meet the needs of crops, believes Mark Hemmant, technical manager at Agrovista. The agronomy company has been challenging itself to think differently for several years now and part of that process has involved better…
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Download PDF A greater percentage of soil-applied phosphate (90-95%) and potash fertilisers (60%) remains in an unavailable form than is actually used by the crop. CPM explores how growers can rely less on solid fertiliser as well as improve nutrient uptake, assimilation and utilisation, while maintaining yields. It’s been generally accepted as okay that a crop only utilises 5-10% of the phosphate applied. By Lucy de la Pasture In the words of Socrates: ‘change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new’. It’s fair to say that the world has changed significantly, even within the current cropping year. Tomorrow’s problems have very much become the pressing issues of the day, particularly when it comes to crop nutrition. Change that has been coming has accelerated in the topsy-turvy economics which follow a pandemic and have been further distorted by Putin’s war. For many reasons it’s a good time to think differently about how to ‘build the new’ and still meet the needs of crops, believes Mark Hemmant, technical manager at Agrovista. The agronomy company has been challenging itself to think differently for several years now and part of that process has involved better…
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