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The environmental effects of nitrogen that determine how much effluent you can irrigate onto land, says Waikato Regional Council.

Ballance Agri-Nutrients is holding nitrogen prices to help shelter customers from the drop in the dollar.

At the recent Organic and Biodynamic Winegrowing Conference, Dr Charles Merfield from BHU Future Farming Centre, described nitrogen as “the joker in the pack” of 92 elements.

Agreement has been reached on reducing by 20% the amount of nitrogen leaching into Lake Taupo through the ground.

It's possible to meet nitrogen limits onfarm while remaining productive.

Irrigated dairy farms can expect nitrogen loss figures to leap when they run the latest version of Overseer.

There's been noise in the market recently about urea coatings that can reduce volatilisation -– the process where nitrogen is lost to the atmosphere rather than available to the plant. 

Million of dollars of nitrogen is vanishing into thin air, causing losses to farmers and to New Zealand in wasted imports, says fertiliser company Ballance Agri-Nutrients.

Is it worth applying nitrogen fertiliser to speed pasture recovery post drought?

Irish dairy farmers are responding positively to a research programme designed to measure nitrogen and phosphorous leaching on their farms.