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A full-colour book covering the basics of fertiliser use for healthy soils and profitable agriculture. Includes details on nitrogen, phosphorus and other essential nutrients, chapters on acid soils, testing, choosing and coating fertilisers, and the role of organic fertilisers.

  • The basics
  • Agriculture finds a friend in fertiliser
  • What plants want
  • Acid soils and the pH connection
  • Nitrogen for quality
  • Phosphorus: the wonder drug
  • Other essential nutrients
  • Tests for nutrients
  • Choosing and costing fertilisers
  • Organic fertilisers
  • Fertilisers and soil health
  • Glossary

Title Fertiliser essentials
Pages 80  
ISBN  
Catalogue number B494  
Year publishedYear published 1998, Updated 2015          
Publisher NSW Department of Primary Industries  
Price $36.00AUD (inc GST)



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