Module 1
The Nitrogen Cycle and Crop Nitrogen Guidelines
Objectives for this module
Understand and gain working knowledge of manure and fertilizer N management
(specifically, the N Cycle and Crop N Guidelines).
What's so important about nitrogen?
- Problems with N deficiencies.
- Problems with excessive N.
The N Cycle
- The basic N conversion processes and the field conditions that favor
them.
Crop N Guidelines: the Corn Example
- Accounting for sources of N.
- How N credits change given different field conditions (e.g. soil
types, plowed sods, drainage, etc.).
- The method of calculating a corn N guideline.
A short, on-line quiz will follow at the end.
