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.
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This is in response to it Boerenbusiness article:
[url=http://www.boerenbusiness.nl/column/10884881/het-vervangen-van-kunstmest-gaat-door]The replacement of fertilizer continues[/url]
Also nice and acidifying for your soil, that discharge water from the air scrubbers.
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
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.
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