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Still hard to predict precise fertilizer payback

Despite decades of precision agriculture advances, international research finds no clear way to predict where and when adding nutrient through fertilizer will fail to boost growth

Reading Time: 4 minutes Despite decades of precision agriculture advances, international research finds no clear way to predict where and when adding nutrient through fertilizer will fail to boost growth.

Corn at Blumenort, Man. in July 2022. Pic: Dave Bedard

Nutrien pays farmers for efficient nitrogen

Nutrien’s Sustainable Nitrogen Outcomes (SNO) program pays Prairie farmers to limit nitrogen loss and, therefore, fertilizer-related greenhouse gas emissions.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Nutrien’s Sustainable Nitrogen Outcomes (SNO) program pays Prairie farmers to limit nitrogen loss and, therefore, fertilizer-related greenhouse gas emissions.






Patrick Mooleki, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada research scientist, speaks about nitrogen research in front of barley plots in Melfort, Sask.

Soil moisture and fall fertilizer loss

Searching for insight to keep fall nitrogen fertilizer in place and available for the next crop

Reading Time: 3 minutes A federal research project is working to identify ways to minimize the loss from fall fertilizer applications.