File:Fertilizer applied to corn field.jpg

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View of nitrogen <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Fertilizer">fertilizer</a> being applied to growing corn (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Maize">maize</a>) in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contour_plowing" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Contour plowing">contoured</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-till_farming" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:No-till farming">no-tilled</a> field in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardin_County,_Iowa" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Hardin County, Iowa">Hardin County, Iowa</a>. Applying smaller amounts of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer#Nitrogen_fertilizer" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Fertilizer">nitrogen</a> several times over the growing season rather than all at once at or before planting helps the plants use the nitrogen rather than have it enter adjacent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Stream">streams</a> (i.e. create <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpoint_source_pollution" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Nonpoint source pollution">nonpoint source pollution</a>.)

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current01:15, 31 October 2021Thumbnail for version as of 01:15, 31 October 20212,100 × 1,500 (1 MB)Thales (talk | contribs)
03:14, 18 January 2017No thumbnail (0 bytes)127.0.0.1 (talk)View of nitrogen <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Fertilizer">fertilizer</a> being applied to growing corn (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Maize">maize</a>) in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contour_plowing" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Contour plowing">contoured</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-till_farming" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:No-till farming">no-tilled</a> field in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardin_County,_Iowa" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Hardin County, Iowa">Hardin County, Iowa</a>. Applying smaller amounts of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer#Nitrogen_fertilizer" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Fertilizer">nitrogen</a> several times over the growing season rather than all at once at or before planting helps the plants use the nitrogen rather than have it enter adjacent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Stream">streams</a> (i.e. create <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpoint_source_pollution" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Nonpoint source pollution">nonpoint source pollution</a>.)
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