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Fertilizer: An Investment for 2009 Crops
The International Plant Nutrition Institute has prepared a series of articles that may be helpful in dealing with fertilizer decisions this year. These include: 
- Chances of Losing Yield from Fertilizer Rate Reductions 
- Don't Make a Fertilizer Decision this Spring without a Soil Test 
- Optimum Nitrogen and Phosphorus Rates in Times of Changing Grain and Fertilizer Markets 
- There Is No Substitute for Adequate Crop Nutrition 
- Crop Nutrient Economics: Price Ratios
Click here to access the full range of IPNI materials.

The public is more interested in fertilizer, compost and manure use than ever before. Read some of the coverage on why crop nutrition is important and how farmers can use beneficial practices to manage it successfully

• CNC featured in Western Producer article
  Learn how the Crop Nutrients Council (CNC) is helping agricultural producers adopt beneficial practices in the face of growing government and public interest.
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Alberta's Cropping Industry
  Governments and consumers are expecting all industries, including the cropping industry, to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.  Read how the Alberta cropping industry is doing its part in reducing GHG emissions from fertilizers and cropping practices.
• Climate Change Action Fund Agricultural Awareness Partnership
  The Climate Change Action Fund Agricultural Awareness Partnership’s website has a series of informative and current fact sheets, newspaper articles and radio public service announcements to promote Beneficial Management Practices (BMPs) currently being employed by agricultural producers to reduce GHG emissions. Find out how agricultural producers in every region in every region in every region in Canada are doing their role to reduce GHGs.