Adding nutrients to soil PPT
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How can you correct nutrient
deficiency?
2032
Adam Nash
What is fertilizer?
Any material added to the soil to
provide nutrients that will increase
growth, yield, or nutritional value of the
plants.
Fertilizer Classifications
Inorganic
Natural Organic
Synthetic Organic
Inorganic Fertilizer
Non-living sources
(minerals/rocks)
Chemically made
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Inorganic Fertilizer
Characteristics:
Nutrients in soluble form
and quickly made available to plants
Should not come in contact with roots
or foliage for long time period
Natural Organic
From plant/animal material
Characteristics:
N usually predominant
Nutrients are only made available to
the plants as the materials decay in soil,
so SLOW ACTING & LONG LASTING
Natural Organic
Examples:
Animal manure
Cottonseed meal
Soybean meal
Dried blood
Dried ground/sewage sludge
Bone meal
Manure
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Cottonseed meal
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Soybean Meal
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Blood Mean
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Dried Sewage Sludge
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Bone Meal
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Synthetic Organic Fertilizer
Made from carbon based materials