The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) is organising on-farm events to discuss the sustainable use of nutrients on farm to enhance growth potential.
During the events, CAFRE beef and sheep advisers will provide practical advice on the key steps to managing nutrients on farm.
Those in attendance will learn how to use their soil analysis report to determine crop requirements and utilise the value in organic manures to reduce their fertiliser bill.
CAFRE said that these informative and practical events will be hosted across Northern Ireland to allow as many farmers as possible to attend.
The host farmers will provide an overview of their farm business and the steps that they take to ensure that they make best use of nutrients produced on farm.
The first of these meetings will be held on Tuesday, April 15 at 7:30pm on the farm of Victor Chestnutt, 9 Clougher Rd, Bushmills, BT57 8YJ.
Pre-booking is not required and everyone is welcome to attend the farm events.
CAFRE
Meanwhile, CAFRE recently launched a large-scale deep soil carbon coring project across its estate.
The project is the largest of its kind in Northern Ireland, sampling carbon stocks up to 100cm deep in the soil profile.
The carbon coring project has completed in-field sampling across 1,200 hectares of active agricultural land covering a range of farming systems, environments and habitats.
The results from the project will establish an important baseline for deep soil carbon stocks, broad nutrients and carbon properties at a field level for each of the CAFRE farm centres.
