Soil Fertility

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Questions? Contact John Sawyer

Professor
Extension Soil Fertility Specialist
Phone: (515) 294-7078
Email: jsawyer@iastate.edu

Antonio Mallarino

Professor, Soil Fertility
Phone: (515) 294-6200
Fax: (515) 294-2458
Email: apmallar@iastate.edu

Soil Fertility Home Page

Welcome to the Iowa State University Agronomy Extension Soil Fertility Home Page. Nutrient topics are listed on the left side. Simply click on a topic of interest and you can find information about that topic, including Extension publications, newsletter articles, conference proceedings and reports, presentations, and links to other related sites. Links also provide access to soil fertility decision aid tools, a photo gallery, and the ISU Soil and Plant Analysis Laboratory.

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COMPRESSED SPRING WORKLOAD IN 2014? WHAT ARE NITROGEN APPLICATION OPTIONS?

John E. Sawyer, Professor, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University
March 31, 2014

It was a long winter, with conditions this spring suitable for field work perhaps being later than normal. Also, some areas of Iowa did not have the typical amount of fall anhydrous ammonia applied. Questions are already coming about options for nitrogen (N) fertilization this spring, and the usual question should time be taken to get N applied or plant corn and apply N later. Read on.

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