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The manuring of sugar beet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

D. A. Boyd
D. A. Boyd
Affiliation:
Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden
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Information on how growers actually manure their crops is available from the Survey of Fertilizer Practice, carried out by the Provincial Soil Chemists of the N.A.A.S., in collaboration with Rothamsted. These data indicate that, taking into account the nutrients in farmyard manure, the average amounts of nitrogen and potash applied are not far from the optimal amounts suggested by experiment, whilst phosphate dressings are on the average at least double requirements. This may be due in part to the fact that few compounds are available with a low ratio of phosphate to other nutrients.

Except in one or two factory areas the use of salt on sugar beet is still very limited.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 48 , Issue 4 , April 1957 , pp. 477 - 480
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1957

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