Benchmarking sustainable cropping practices
How can we benchmark sustainable cropping-practices? One way would be to eliminate the risk of residual post-harvent N-loss due to low N-fertilizer use efficiencies (NUE), AND the risk of "soil minining" due to excesively high NUEs than tend to deprive crop residues of N needed for their humification into stable soil organic-matter. For instance, herein figure 2 from Malinas et al. 2022 (https://lnkd.in/e3URYbrY). This is precisely what accomplishes - routinely at the plot-level across Europe for any N-fertilization rate, Polyor SAS's AgroNum approach to integrated fertilizer management for sustainable agriculture (https://lnkd.in/eBmfT3NM). AgroNum is presently at the commercial development stage in want of collaborators. Yours to see.
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