Explore how all-season nitrogen management optimizes crop nutrition, reduces losses and makes every application count, whether in fields newly receiving nitrogen management or those already in plan.
Seasonal nitrogen cycling
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Creating a rotational grazing plan
Explore how a rotational grazing management plan can boost soil health and pasture quality through considerations such as pasture composition and quality, paddock rotation, rest periods and water access.
Soil texture and nitrogen
Learn how soil texture affects how much nitrogen a crop can access. Understanding the difference between sand, clay and loam soils helps explain why some fields need different nutrient management needs than others.
Pastures and frost seeding
Improve pastures with practical tips on timing, selection, preparation, method and management for overseeding or hay by frost seeding—focusing on maximizing seed-to-soil contact for the best chance of success.
Cover crops after corn or soybeans
Explore how expanding cover crop practices to other points in the rotation—beyond after-winter wheat—can deliver added benefits, including after corn or soybeans where they may not have been used before.
Tissue and soil sampling
Hear from Colin Elgie, Soil Fertility Specialist at Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness, on best practices for tissue and soil sampling for accurate nitrogen and general nutrient analysis in a corn crop.
Nitrogen: non-growing season
Explore nitrogen losses during the non-growing season including how warming winters may be contributing to increased nitrate leaching and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions and year-round nitrogen management strategies.
Rotational grazing management
Learn how Joshua Noiseux of Evermeadow Farms in Northumberland County transformed rolling drumlin hills into productive perennial forage to successfully implement rotational grazing for his sheep.
Preparing a letter of support
Find guidelines to prepare a letter of support for cost-share funding programs—includes downloadable templates for On-Farm Climate Action Fund (OFCAF) and Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program (RALP).
Water retention and wetlands
Learn how Topsy Farms in Stella, Ontario, enhanced water retention, created new sources of water and increased natural habitats to boost biodiversity through a series of water retention ponds and native plants.