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Jeff D. Morton, Allan Gillingham, Maurice Gray
Completed 2017
The effects of potassium (K) (0–160 kg/ha/yr) on soil and pasture were measured in five small plot mowing sites on flat and easy slopes in Hawkes Bay hill country from 2004 to 2007. Initial soil QT K levels ranged from 1.6 to 3.8 at each site and increased to a range of 3.5–11.3 at the highest rate of K in the third year. At most sites, clover cover on some occasions increased up to the highest rate of K. Despite this increase, there was only one significant response in pasture production to K at one site in the third year. Possible reasons for the lack of a total DM production response to K application were more grass growth compensating for less clover growth at the nil and lower rates of K or insufficient transfer of nitrogen from the clover to grasses at higher rates of K.
The Fertiliser Association of New Zealand and Dairy NZ funded development of the Nutrient Management Adviser Certification Programme (NMACP). This industry-wide certification aims to ensure that advisers have the learning, experience and capability to give sound nutrient advice.
27 March 2024
FANZ is dedicated to funding research and developing New Zealand’s agricultural research capability by supporting PhD research such as the work of Massey University student Nicola Wilson who is undertaking research on ‘What Hot Water Extractable Carbon and Nitrogen can tell us about changes in labile soil Carbon and Nitrogen.’
1 March 2024
The Fertiliser Association of New Zealand recently updated its Fertiliser Use on New Zealand Dairy Farms booklet to ensure farmers get the best value from fertiliser applied and to align the advice with the Code of Practice for Fertiliser Nutrient Management.
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