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<blockquote data-quote="1wlimo" data-source="post: 1405149" data-attributes="member: 16646"><p>In puts are expensive so applying them where there can be run off is simply inefficient. </p><p></p><p>Waterlogged soil is bad for root and microbial life so needs to be avoided. It is certainly not a good time to apply nutrients, or to expect the soil to make them available to plants. Avoiding water logging by improving soil structure, use of drainage etc reduces these issues.</p><p></p><p>Application can be made with lighter machines, with a lower ground pressure without excessive damage earlier than with many of the heavy machines marketed today.</p><p></p><p>With pasture, unless you live in a high rainfall area I would have to ask if applying nitrogen pencils at all. Compared to a high legume pasture, you need to have a lot of growth before the nitrogen fixated by the root nodule's is fully utilised by the pasture as a whole. Here certainly the addition of nitrogen to a mixed pasture is wasteful.</p><p></p><p>Winter wheat is a useful crop, and when I grew up many thought that the application of a small amount of fall applied N was of use. it has been proven in the UK that it is not. There is more than sufficient nutrients to carry a crop thru the fall and into the spring. Yes early as possible application is required, but the soil needs to be bioactive prior to nutrients being available. So water logged soils are not a good time to apply nutrients.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1wlimo, post: 1405149, member: 16646"] In puts are expensive so applying them where there can be run off is simply inefficient. Waterlogged soil is bad for root and microbial life so needs to be avoided. It is certainly not a good time to apply nutrients, or to expect the soil to make them available to plants. Avoiding water logging by improving soil structure, use of drainage etc reduces these issues. Application can be made with lighter machines, with a lower ground pressure without excessive damage earlier than with many of the heavy machines marketed today. With pasture, unless you live in a high rainfall area I would have to ask if applying nitrogen pencils at all. Compared to a high legume pasture, you need to have a lot of growth before the nitrogen fixated by the root nodule's is fully utilised by the pasture as a whole. Here certainly the addition of nitrogen to a mixed pasture is wasteful. Winter wheat is a useful crop, and when I grew up many thought that the application of a small amount of fall applied N was of use. it has been proven in the UK that it is not. There is more than sufficient nutrients to carry a crop thru the fall and into the spring. Yes early as possible application is required, but the soil needs to be bioactive prior to nutrients being available. So water logged soils are not a good time to apply nutrients. [/QUOTE]
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