Presentations
T10
Specialty Session
Tue, Dec 19, 2023
10:00am to 10:50am
T3
Specialty Session
Tue, Dec 19, 2023
3:00pm to 3:50pm
Can Biologicals Substitute for Fertilizer Nutrients?
Crops need sufficient nutrients and there are few, if any, shortcuts to provide those nutrients. Nitrogen fixation whether to produce fertilizer or provide N to a plant could arguably be considered the most energy intensive process known to humans. This session will cover information including non-rhizobial N fixing organisms, recent regional data and considerations when using these products, and influential factors that may influence the N-fixation process.
Speaker
Kurt Steinke
Dr. Steinke leads an applied research, extension, and teaching program in soil fertility and plant nutrition. He has worked across a wide array of both field and vegetable cropping systems and published in a variety of journals looking at improving the efficiency of nutrient management strategies for production agricultural systems.