Saving on fertilizers can be more expensive than it seems — experience from the Mykolaiv region

Reducing fertilizer rates for the sake of saving money is a bad idea, because sometimes the savings can be more expensive than it seems. It is better to work according to yield maps and study the needs of your soil. SuperAgronom.com reported this from Maxim Maximenko, director of FG "Annushka" during the AgroExpedition 2025, which was held with the support of KWS-UKRAINE and Credit Agricole Bank. At FG "Annushka" they practice cover crops and no-till sowing. They constantly establish experimental plots of agricultural crops sown after different predecessors and soil treatments and leave controls measuring 50x50 m to verify the correctness of the decision made. The farm conducts soil analysis. Based on it, they see no point in reducing nitrogen fertilizers. Moreover, the control plots show that there are problems with a lack of nitrogen water. And the amount of phosphorus to be applied is determined by calcium levels, because its amount in the farm's soils is excessive. In the ...