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Compendium of Research Reports on Use of Non-Traditional Materials for Crop Production

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Contact Persons

Advisor: Carl Rosen Contact
Regional System Administrator: Christina Hamilton Contact

State Representatives

Bijesh Maharjan – University of Nebraska-Lincoln Contact
Dan Kaiser – University of Minnesota Contact
David Franzen – North Dakota State University Contact
Dorivar Ruiz Diaz – Kansas State University Contact
Edwin Lentz – The Ohio State University Contact
Edwin Ritchey – University of Kentucky Contact
Emerson Nafziger – University of Illinois Contact
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Kurt Steinke – Michigan State University Contact
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Matthew Ruark – University of Wisconsin Contact

What are non-traditional products?

Using fertilizer and soil amendments is essential to maintaining crop and livestock production. The major sources of organic and manufactured fertilizers and some soil amendments have been well-researched and proven effective for over 80 years. However, there have always been fertilizers and amendments with unusual ingredients that come to market. Recently, there has been a flood of non-traditional fertilizers and amendments, including biological activators with advertised nutrient use efficiency properties. Not all newly introduced products can be comprehensively evaluated across the region. Some heavily marketed non-traditional fertilizers and amendments are researched by some members of this committee NCERA-103 and presented herein.

This electronic compendium provides information on non-traditional materials marketed for use in crop production in the north central region of the USA. It is a collection of research abstracts and reports released by scientists in State Agricultural Experiment Stations. This electronic compendium contains material previously published in the compendium (1985) and supplements 1 and 2.

The individual reports have been placed into an electronic database that is searchable for any text. Therefore, reports containing information on specific non-traditional materials can be found and are accessible electronically through the search process. The committee realizes the compendium does not include all research reports and that there are additional products on which agronomic research has not been conducted. Additional reports will be added to the database as they become available.

Criteria for Inclusion

Criteria for inclusion of a research report or abstract in the compendium includes: 1) at least two site-years of research, with multiple crops or varieties substituting for a site-year; 2) authors listed; 3) replicated with statistical analysis; 4) reasonably applicable to north central USA crop production; 5) reference source available; and 6) author permission.

Disclaimer

The NCERA-103 Committee takes no responsibility for comments or conclusions expressed in any of the reports contained within this collection. The purpose of the Committee activity is to provide a single, more conveniently used file of references for researchers, extension personnel, crop advisers, and agency personnel who have interest or assigned responsibilities in the use of non-traditional materials. Inclusion of information on materials and/or expression of trade names does not represent approval or disapproval, implied or otherwise, for a product for use in crop production.