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How to reduce fertiliser costs without sacrificing yield

News03 Feb 2020Alice Dyer

Independent trials have shown more than £70/hectare can be saved on fertiliser costs for virtually the same wheat yield by using solid ammonium nitrate rather than nitrogen in a liquid format.

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