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Fertilizer replacement continues

6 December 2019 - Herre Bartlema - 33 comments

Friesland, the pre-eminent agricultural province, is again popular with citizens and farmers this year. The residents remain sober. That is widely seen as an important feature of their nature, as well as community spirit. It is no coincidence that the number 3 on the cooperative list, Royal FrieslandCampina, has its roots in Friesland.

Serving a great common interest with a sober approach, that's what Jan Huitema does too. Thanks to the member of the liberal group of the European Parliament, who comes from Friesland, the recognition of mineral concentrates as fertilizer is now gaining momentum. This is expected to be a fact within 2 years and that is great news for all entrepreneurs in open cultivation such as arable farmers, open field vegetable growers and dairy farmers.

Fertilizer that does not leach out
They will have access to an affordable ammonium-containing liquid inorganic nitrogen-potassium fertilizer, which is very suitable for precision fertilization. Namely a fertilizer that does not wash out and can be placed in the root zone up to pavement tile level. And in any desired dosage from side to side, without losses due to emissions, leaching and rinsing. Without losses on tramlines, along field edges and on headlands.

The suppliers of inorganic fast-acting plant nutrients from processed organic fertilizers will gain a significant sales market. A long cherished wish. It is worth mentioning here that all crops can absorb ammonium nitrogen and that grass and potatoes have a preference for it. For grassland, the dosage recommendations for ammoniacal nitrogen are therefore 20% lower than with wide spread application in the spring. Together with the supply of other alternatives to fertilizer nitrogen, such as nitrogen from air scrubbers, the Dutch demand for fast-acting inorganic nitrogen can be met.

Solutions for nitrogen crisis
Huitema is also responding to our Prime Minister's call to come up with solutions to the nitrogen crisis, now that the facts show so clearly how large the share of fertilizers is in nitrogen emissions. The Factsheet Emissions and deposition of nitrogen in the Netherlands, recently drawn up at the request of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, shows that nitrogen fertilizers cause approximately 8% of national ammonia emissions. That is the same as emissions from poultry farming and slightly more than half from pig farming. Emissions of nitrogen oxides from nitrogen fertilizers are also substantial.

These high emissions are a result of superficial broad-spread application of nitrogen fertilizer in open crops. With the techniques of the 21st century, which can be high- or low-tech, these emissions can be reduced completely quickly. Namely by applying the 4 correctnesses of fertilization with high precision down to the square meter.

Disadvantage mineral concentrate
This is possible through the availability of GPS, in combination with control based on camera images and task maps, through the wide range of precision fertilizers such as mineral concentrates that can be dosed slowly into the root zone and through the arrival of tools with minimal soil pressure.

A disadvantage of mineral concentrate, despite the name, is the low content of nitrogen and potassium. Thanks to the pilot projects that are underway in the Netherlands, there are now all kinds of administration techniques that meet this objection. Drag hoses of the product, whether or not in combination with slurry, is such a solution. However, robotization also offers great prospects for the use of low-concentration fertilizers by installing a mobile charging station for one or more fertilization robots at the headlands.

Herre Bartlema

Herre Bartlema is chairman of the NCOK: Netherlands Center for the Development of Circular Precision Agriculture. The aim: to promote the application of practical precision farming techniques to contribute to a clean sector.
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33 comments
frans 2 December 2019
This is in response to it Boerenbusiness article:
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there is no nitrogen crisis that is made on paper. to kill agriculture. we have to keep our cost price low who will pay for this gps/task cards/machinery/contractor/etc. again the farmer this money is not there. let the farmer just burp and with animal manure and adjusting with fertilizer is still to do . before every farmer throws in the towel with unnecessary costs and new things that won't work
Arable farming2.0 2 December 2019
Also nice and acidifying for your soil, that discharge water from the air scrubbers.
Herre Bartlema 2 December 2019
"It pours oan" is how I had put it above my opinion, but the editors have kept it at ABN. As usual, it pours over those reaguurders! Thanks again for the beautiful sentences and the opportunity to provide further information.
Mineral concentrate acidifies less than CAN.
Nitrogen from chemical air scrubbers, on the other hand, in the form of liquid ammonium sulphate, acidifies more than CAN. This is an advantage for the mobilization of phosphate and trace elements in the spring and for the skin quality of potatoes. You should always lime, even when using CAN, if the soil investigation indicates this. In practice, this means that when using CAN, liming is required 1* every five years on some soils, as opposed to 1* every four years when using sulfuric acid ammonia solution. The costs for the extra liming are amply covered by the lower costs for nitrogen when using sulfuric acid ammonia solution.
sludge 2 December 2019
arable 2.0 wrote:
Also nice and acidifying for your soil, that discharge water from the air scrubbers.
This concerns mineral concentrate and also waste water. Both very cheap and useful fertilizer substitutes with fast-acting, non-organically bound nitrogen. Excellent use if used properly. The mineral contract, for example in the spring for sugar beets or potatoes, then ripens well with good sugar contents and underwater weights and your potassium requirement is almost covered for that year. And a cubic meter of drainage water per hectare with your potatoes or wheat covers your sulfur requirements for a number of years and causes little acidification damage, not much more than spraying urea or urea in your wheat or potatoes. As far as I am concerned, it is excellently usable from practical experience, only the fertilizer manufacturers and traders are less happy with it and manage to mislead a number of arable farmers with their fear mongering. They would rather sell you urea or sulfur greenhouses, which is also understandable, but who is the customer and pays, dear Akkerboer2?
Arable farming2.0 2 December 2019
Drainage water is unusable in wheat cultivation anyway, moving far too many cubic meters with the field sprayer.
And a spoked wheel or drag hose gives a lot of traces if it is a wet spring. And driving nts over the frost gives no traces
sludge 2 December 2019
arable 2.0 wrote:
Drainage water is unusable in wheat cultivation anyway, moving far too many cubic meters with the field sprayer.
And a spoked wheel or drag hose gives a lot of traces if it is a wet spring. And driving nts over the frost gives no traces
Spigot contains about 45 kg N per 1000 ltr. May be good in the sprayer instead of NTS best arable farmer. Do your research first before making oversimplified and unsubstantiated claims here. And no, I am not a cattle farmer, but an arable farmer who has been involved in the pilot project for a number of years and covers the potassium and sulfur requirements for free with good results and no longer has to lime as before! So about 100 € per hectare annual saving, regardless of the labor savings and machine cost reduction. I would like to delve into it and think out of the box, money can be saved and it fits in with circular thinking
chose 2 December 2019
45 kg/1000 ltr, you still have to spray 3000 ltr/ha to give a 1st gift on your wheat. Do you have to have a nice syringe to have a little capacity
arable farming2.0 2 December 2019
Labor saving and machine cost reduction. Think you're making a math error. The first application in winter wheat is 110-120 kg pure N. This means that you have to spread almost 26-2700 liters per ha. While nts is only a gift of 340 ltr per ha with the same amount of N.

I'd do some math on my own, instead of just accepting everything.

I am quite prepared to use other residual flows, but here really nobody is going to spray 2500 liters per ha and more over the land. I also think it would be nice to have such a large storage space in your yard. Will always love the community.
Arable farming2.0 2 December 2019
To help you along the way,

100 ha of winter wheat then you need about 550 m3 of drain water to apply 240 kg/n per ha. So become a manure basin for discharge water and you can really forget about applying 100 ha of the first dose in 1 night.

But you will calculate differently.
the ordinary farmer 2 December 2019
Great news, just another cost-increasing nightmare.
sludge 2 December 2019
Forget it. Go ahead according to the advice of your sellers!
You don't want to think out of the box. If 1m3 of discharge water is enough to cover the sulfur requirement for 4 years, why use 6m3 per hectare?
But just continue with your advisors they will appreciate you.
You do not calculate in maximum yield per hectare, but in the highest yield regardless of what that costs. But on those 100 hectares you could easily get €10000 extra balance I think is 10% more if you calculate honestly
But hey, you don't need any well-intentioned consideration, you've got plenty of money, and your fertilizer salesman will sort out your fertilization plan with the computer, it's easy and fine. Well keep it up, have a nice evening and good luck with your business.







Skirt 3 December 2019
Acidification gives slemp
Arable farming2.0 3 December 2019
To help you along the way,

100 ha of winter wheat then you need about 550 m3 of drain water to apply 240 kg/n per ha. So become a manure basin for discharge water and you can really forget about applying 100 ha of the first dose in 1 night.

But you will calculate differently.
Arable farming2.0 3 December 2019
Will have to spray nitrogen anyway, if you're a farmer. Very strange that sulfur is the benchmark for fertilization. Spraying sulfur sulphate on a full crop is quite more efficient. And can go with the other sprays at the same time.
geert 3 December 2019
way too many tracks on land and waterlogging, besides it's almost all water
sludge 3 December 2019
arable 2.0 wrote:
Will have to spray nitrogen anyway, if you're a farmer. Very strange that sulfur is the benchmark for fertilization. Spraying sulfur sulphate on a full crop is quite more efficient. And can go with the other sprays at the same time.
I don't have to spray nitrogen at all. I get money for my nitrogen in wheat. Making good use of organic manure. And reading isn't your strongest point.
Arable farming2.0 3 December 2019
In NL you have a supply standard from manure of 170 kg per ha, with an efficiency coefficient of 60-80 % according to the scientists. My experience is even lower in a dry year. So if such N gifts are enough for you, your returns will be so much lower than average that any little savings will be lost.
abn 3 December 2019
find a job instead of teasing every time with unnecessary delusions this is not going to be a practice way too cumbersome
JapieE 3 December 2019
Why don't I hear from the ladies and gentlemen farmers about the amount of subsidy they receive?

When I read the Volkskrant of 15 May 2019, the money ends up in an "unintended place".

It states, among other things: In the current multi-year budget for 2014-2020, EUR 308 billion has been set aside for direct income support to farmers. The Netherlands may distribute approximately 5 billion euros of this.

For the entire article, see: https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-gronden/groot-deel-europese-inkomenssteun-gaat-naar-nederlandse-boeren-die-bovenmodaal-earen~b8b4597a/?referer=https% 3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
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erik 3 December 2019
Dear Japie, of the money that goes to the EU (less than 2% of the Dutch tax revenue) about two thirds comes back to the Netherlands as support for agriculture, so that your food package remains nice and cheap. If you do want to worry about something, then do so about the other (more than) 98% of the tax money that remains in the Netherlands. Maybe next time think before you respond, because maybe you are subsidized more than the average farmer in the Netherlands
shoemakers 1 3 December 2019
the so-called subsidy is only a partial compensation for decreased prices, it has to lower your wages and compensate this with very many demands 50%, I also hire an african, we will see how much the workers are subsidized
shoemakers 1 3 December 2019
I can too, sorry
Herre Bartlema 5 December 2019
The low concentrations of circular fertilizers naturally require different application techniques. Due to the ammonium content, PLACEMENT is always necessary to prevent volatilization.

Do NOT use the field sprayer.
This also applies to urean and NTS in light of the NITROGEN CRISIS.

Wednesday 11 December in Westmaas PPO : from 10.00-15.00 EVERYTHING about the administration of FERTILIZER REPLACEMENTS . Free lunch and machine show, registration required for lunch. 0651596092
www.smartfertilization.org


frans 6 December 2019
there is no nitrogen crisis that is made on paper. but yes this is of course food for mr bartelma employment over the back of the innocent victims
Arable farming2.0 6 December 2019
Spoke wheel fertilizer is totally unsuitable in winter wheat on heavy clay soil.
Mr bartlema's theories will probably fit well on grassland.
But for most arable farmers they will have to develop a fertilizer that can be applied with the field sprayer.

Therefore do not understand the name mineral concentrate, it is certainly not YET concentrated.

By the way if I spray nts on the last night of a frost period and then wet thaw or rain. Then little will be lost, because there is already a nice crop of wheat on the land. Which the nitrogen is already needed at that moment.
Herre Bartlema 8 December 2019
Arable farming 2.0 sees problems in placing plant food in the root zone on heavy clay. So do we, which is why we are working on robotics. Are you participating in the trial of our Arable Farming 2.0 prototype? I really appreciate your advice, Herre
arable farmer 20 December 2019
let the farmers farm themselves and don't come up with that robot every time rubbish and comic book theories farmer knows better than anyone how to fertilize and that must be simple part fertilizer part animal no more no less so no unnecessary costs of..... that we already have too much. jump in the breach for the farmers instead of pulling the noose even harder
rule maker 21 December 2019
Farmers only have to bear the financial risks, all business decisions are made by the regulators for us, with the help of crazy researchers who want to use their toys
herre bartlema 1 January 2020
Don't you also use a mobile phone, arable farmer and rule maker? Feel free to come to Dairy Campus, January 24, 2019 10.00-12.30 Leeuwarden, then we - the innovative business community - will explain what we are working on for a viable profitable agriculture, so also for you. Business has to come up with the best agricultural practices, it's no different.
??? !!! 1 January 2020
herre bartlema wrote:
Don't you also use a mobile phone, arable farmer and rule maker? Feel free to come to Dairy Campus, January 24, 2019 10.00-12.30 Leeuwarden, then we - the innovative business community - will explain what we are working on for a viable profitable agriculture, so also for you. Business has to come up with the best agricultural practices, it's no different.
also in this new year: HB away with it.
??? !!! 1 January 2020
to the editors:

Ban that HB because of broken rules:

Advertisements are prohibited.

You also start the year right!
neighbour 1 January 2020
Would like to go but going back in time will be difficult
Herre Bartlema 7 January 2020
Well spotted Burke! It is January 24, 2020 of course. Glad you're coming. HG Herre
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