. Agri-news. Agriculture. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FERTILIZER SITUATION Alberta Agriculture urges farmers to order their 1976 fertilizer requirements this fall to ensure that there will be an adequate supply and orderly deliveries. The head of the soils branch, Adolph Goettel, reports that the present fertilizer out- look is similar to that of this time last year. "Nitrogen fertilizer supplies will again be 'tight', but phosphate fertilizer supplies will be adequate," he says. Last year nearly 30 per cent of the fertilizer used for this year's crop was on farms by the end of December. T
. Agri-news. Agriculture. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FERTILIZER SITUATION Alberta Agriculture urges farmers to order their 1976 fertilizer requirements this fall to ensure that there will be an adequate supply and orderly deliveries. The head of the soils branch, Adolph Goettel, reports that the present fertilizer out- look is similar to that of this time last year. "Nitrogen fertilizer supplies will again be 'tight', but phosphate fertilizer supplies will be adequate," he says. Last year nearly 30 per cent of the fertilizer used for this year's crop was on farms by the end of December. This forward ordering, plus a slower fertilizer demand in January, resuued in few, f :ny, problems in the moving of nearly 590,000 tons of fertilizer on to Alberta farms fo> the 1975 crop. This figure represents an 8 per cent increase over the 1974 figure. Doug Penny of the soils branch says the main advantage of applying nitrogen fertilizers in the fall to forages and land that is to be cropped to cereals is that it reduces the spring work load. Although many farmers apply their nitrogen fertilizer at this time of the year, preliminary research results carried out in Alberta and in other parts of Western Canada indicate that under some con- ditions nitrogen applied in the fall for cereal crops may be less effective than that applied in the spring. In fact, research carried out by Dr. M. Nyborg of the University of Alberta's soils department indicates that some fall-applied nitrogen may be lost under the wet conditions that prevail in the early spring. Losses have apparently been greater wiu fertilizers applied in the early fall (late September) than with those applied in the late fall (late October). According to Mr. Penney, the frequency with which significant losses occur from fall- applied nitrogen has not yet been fully evaluated. He advises farmers who have been obtaining good results from fall nitrogen applications to continue this practice. However, he recommends some
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