A project to develop a best practice guide for the use of nitrogen in asparagus crops in New Zealand was hampered by one of the worst seasons on record, but having uncovered a wide variety of grower practices research will continue.
This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to collaborate with growers across the growing regions, in order to collect data upon which we can build an understanding of nitrogen pools and dynamics, and together determine what best practice should be.
All text in this article is licensed for re-use under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). First published in New Ground magazine (Vol. 2), December 2022
Funding
Funded by the New Zealand Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment's Our Land and Water National Science Challenge (Toitū te Whenua, Toiora te Wai) as part of project Rural Professionals Fund 2021–22