Farmers and smallholders press forward, keen to purchase the small packets, some weighing no more than 100g. Recent studies undertaken at Cambridge University Farm, UK, reveal the importance of potassium and nitrogen on magnesium uptake. Soybean makes its demands Argentine fields have taken on a very different aspect in recent years. Making up the difference are oilseeds, notably soybean. Over the last decade . . .
Crops respond quickly, growing taller, greener and more lush.
It makes no difference whether a farmer is measuring out his or her fertilizer by the Coke bottle top, and applying it to an individual plant of sorghum or maize, or whether his or her tractor is fitted with computer controlled application equipment, guided by global positioning satellite. Efficient fertilizer use . . . The nitrogen fixing capacity of legumes is one of nature's gifts to agricultural sustainability but that gift can be enhanced with a little help from man. Biofertilizers, or rhizobia bacteria, which are applied as an inoculant to legume seed before sowing . . . Positive feedback for positive growth Awareness, availability, accessibility and affordability - all are closely linked, positively or negatively, when it comes to the use of fertilizer.