Full Title: Estimating Nitrogen Availability in Organic Annual Production: For Nitrogen Budgeting and Other Purposes
A crop-based nitrogen (N) budget can help estimate whether a crop’s nitrogen supply is appropriate for both optimal crop production and water-quality protection.
This interactive organic nitrogen estimation document will help you understand and estimate a seasonal crop-specific organic nitrogen budget. The zip file includes a worksheet which can be used to estimate a budget for organic production. Because you will have to make many decisions to complete the worksheet, we have developed an overview which outlines the factors affecting nitrogen release and discusses key considerations for making the necessary decisions.
This free publication is available by download.The download is a zip file that contains the main PDF document as well as the worksheet calculator as an Excel file.
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