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Understanding the Five Most Important Parameters on your Soil Test Report

Understanding the Five Most Important Parameters on your Soil Test Report

In addition to nutrient levels, your soil test report may include other essential parameters. Understanding these parameters can help you with making not only important decisions but the right decisions regarding your crop management. read more...

Fertilizer Recomendations for Soybean

Fertilizer Recomendations for Soybean

Fertilizer Recomendations for Soybean Soybeans high yields are possible only when the crop meets its nutritional requirements. In many cases, mismanagement of nitrogen application prevents the soybeans grower from achieving the yield potential. read more...

Guidelines for Coffee Growing

Guidelines for Coffee Growing

General background Coffee, a major commodity on the global market, was originated from Ethiopia. Nowadays, coffee is cultivated in Latin-America, in the sub-Saharan Africa and in the Far East - from India to Indonesia. Suited best for highlands, the Arabica variety exceed the Robusta variety in both taste and price and thus occupying 75% of the coffee plantations area around the world. read more...

Banana Fertilizer management

Banana Fertilizer management

A good fertilizing management starts before the planting, therefore It is best to take a soil test and to plan the optimize nutrition program. read more...

Avocado Nutrient Management

Avocado Nutrient Management

Avocado plantations, originated from Central America, are considered to be far from reaching their full yield potential. Among the yield reduction causes, we could find inadequate fertilizer management. read more...

Corn Fertilizer Recommendations

Corn Fertilizer Recommendations

For profitable production, corn requires adequate soil fertility. Applying the right fertilizers at the right rate and at the right time is crucial for a successful crop. read more...

Tomato Fertilizer Requirements - how to fertilize tomatoes

The fertilizer requirements of tomato are high and it needs frequent fertilizer applications. The key for growing high-yielding tomato is applying the right fertilizer mixture, at the right rate and at the right time. read more...


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Soils

How to Manage Soil Fertility
How to Interpret Your Soil Test Results
Potassium in Soil
How to Prevent and Manage Soil Salinity
Soil Salinity
How to Raise Soil pH
Soil Test Interpretation Guide
Sodic soils and their management
Cation Exchange Capacity of Soils
Cation-Anion Balance in Water and Soil
Understanding PPM in soil
Interpreting Soil Test Results - The Extraction Method
Soil Chemical Analysis as a Tool for Evaluating Nutrient Availability
Physical Properties of Growing Media
How to Choose a Liming Material
Soil Acidity

Plant Nutrition

Understanding Plant Tissue Analysis
How Does the Electrical Conductivity Affect Plant Growth?
Plug plants – Testing and Monitoring Nutritional Status
Giving Fertilizer Recommendations
Visual Identification of Nutrient Deficiencies
Can Mineral Nutrition Affect Plant Disease?
Phosphorus in Soil and Plants
Calcium in Plants and Soil
Iron Nutrition in Plants
Boron in Plants
Plant Nutrients
Foliar Feeding
Optimizing fertilizer application rates
Nitrogen Management
Magnesium in plants and soil
Sulfur in plants and soil
Zinc in plants
Timing and Frequency of Fertilizer Application
Ammonium/Nitrate Ratio
Potassium in Plants
Towards 2050 - Sustainable Strategies to Feeding the World
Chloride - an Essential Nutrient or Harmful Element?
Corn Fertilizer Recommendations

Hydroponics & Fertigation

The challenges of Growing in a Closed Hydroponic System
Fertigation
Fertility Management in Container Plants
How to Calibrate & Test Your Fertilizer Injectors
Fertilizer Injectors
How To Successfully Choose Growing Media
Hydroponic Nutrient Solutions
Hydroponic Systems
Preparation of Fertilizer Stock Solutions for Fertigation
Fertigation Best Practices (I)
pH Adjustment in Fertigation
Fertilizer Solubility
Physical Properties of Growing Media
How to Balance Nutrient Solutions
Irrigation scheduling in soilless culture
Irrigation scheduling in soilless culture

Water Quality

How Does the Electrical Conductivity Affect Plant Growth?
Chlorine Chemicals Used for Water Disinfection
Water Disinfection With Chlorine
The Electrical Conductivity of Water
Managing Irrigation Water Quality Problems
Irrigation Water Quality
Testing Your Irrigation Water
Water pH, Alkalinity and Buffering Capacity
How to Balance Nutrient Solutions
Chloride - an Essential Nutrient or Harmful Element?
Water salinity effect on soil

Irrigation

Irrigation Scheduling and Tensiometers - II
Irrigation Scheduling Using Tensiometers - I
How to Prevent Clogging in Drip Systems
Drip Irrigation Systems
Water Requirements of Crops
Irrigation scheduling in soilless culture
Irrigation scheduling in soilless culture

Fertilizers

Fertilizer Analysis and composition
Nitrogen Fertilizers
Chelated Fertilizers and Their Use
Fertilizer Solubility