Benefits of Using the 4R Nutrient Stewardship
Benefits of Using the 4R Nutrient Stewardship
Improve Agricultural Productivity |
Minimize Impact to the Environment |
- Optimizing nutrient managment is simply good business in dealing with fluctuations in prices of fertilizer and other inputs, as well as in process of crops sold.
- Higher crop yields are well documented with better crop and soil management
- Improving fertilizer efficiency increases the quantity prodcued per acre for each unit of nutrient applied, without sacrificing yield potential
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- Adopting nutrient stewardship contributes to the preservation of natural exosystems by growing more on less land.
- Retaining nutrients within a field's boundaries and in the crop rooting zone greatly reduces the amount that i snot utilized by plants and thereby escapes into the environement as pollution.
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