Agricultural Nutrient Management Program

Soil Health: What Does it Mean in North Carolina (Deanna Osmond et al., NC State Extension, Nov 2018)

Q. My client has several small blocks (about half an acre each) of perennial fruits in his orchard. Are tissue tests required for each of these areas? A. Effective December 2017, Maryland Department of Agriculture no longer requires tissue tests for perennial fruits in blocks less than 1 acre in...

Worksheets: 3-1 (Converting to MD Fertility Index Values) 3-2 (Interpreting soilless media tests) 4-1 (Estimating Plant Available N in manure) 5-1 (Manure N credits for prior years) 5-2 (N recommendation worksheet for crop production using manure and commercial fertilizer) 5-3 (Nitrogen, phosphate...

To download and install (updated 4/22/2019): Use the download instructions to guide your installation of NuMan Pro 5.0 In order to download NuMan Pro 5.0 directly from the link below, NuMan Pro 4.2 must already be installed on your system. Contact our program office to order NuMan Pro 5.0 if you...

Q: When giving nutrient recommendations for a spring-seeded perennial forage crop, should I also include maintenance recommendations for the same growing season? A: The pre-plant fertilizer recommendations sustain the crop through the first cutting. After the first cutting, maintenance...

Q. My client has less than 20 animal units, so I know that we can use book values for the manure nutrient content rather than requiring a manure sample. She would like a multi-year plan, but isn’t sure on which fields she’ll end up applying the manure. Is it ok to develop a plan with multiple field...

Recordkeeping instructions and templates for small-scale fruit and vegetable growers

MDA: Common Liquid Fertilizer Weights Fluid Fertilizer Foundation: Fluid Fertilizer Densities

Q. Why isn’t nitrate included in the average manure composition table on the ANMP website? ( Posted March 16, 2018) A. Very few laboratories serving agricultural clientele analyze for nitrate in manure and other organic samples submitted to them, so we have insufficient data for reliable averages...

Manure (Small Quantities) Manure Quantity Estimation for Organic Integrated Poultry Operators Manure (and Other Organic Materials) on Soybeans