Soils Season Guide
Welcome to another great fall soil season with Midwest Labs! Here is a reference guide with all the important information you will need this year. We look forward to serving your business this fall.
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Buffer Index Explanation
MemoA soil's buffer index measures how much reserve acidity is present and qualifies acidic soil pH's by determining how much lime material to apply.
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Corn: nutrient uptake through the growing season
MemoThis memo shows how corn's nutrient uptake varies through the growing season.
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Nitrogen Management in Agricultural Soils
BrochureProfitable crop production largely depends on adequate amounts of available nitrogen. In continuous corn, for example, the dollar return per one dollar invested in nitrogen fertilizer can be as high as eight to one. However, as beneficial and profitable as nitrgoen fertilizer is to crop production, continued inputs of nitrogen fertilizers have increasingly been a concern regarding occurrence of nitrates in ground and surface waters. Consequently, both crop production economics and environmental concerns necessarily demand increasing the judicious and efficient use of nitrogen fertilizers.
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