Indiana CCA Conference 2023 Presentation
 
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Presentations

T10

Specialty Session
Tue, Dec 19, 2023
10:00am to 10:50am

T3

Specialty Session
Tue, Dec 19, 2023
3:00pm to 3:50pm

Can Biologicals Substitute for Fertilizer Nutrients?

Crops need sufficient nutrients and there are few, if any, shortcuts to provide those nutrients. Nitrogen fixation whether to produce fertilizer or provide N to a plant could arguably be considered the most energy intensive process known to humans. This session will cover information including non-rhizobial N fixing organisms, recent regional data and considerations when using these products, and influential factors that may influence the N-fixation process.

Speaker

Kurt Steinke

Associate Professor, Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management
Michigan State University
Biography

Dr. Steinke leads an applied research, extension, and teaching program in soil fertility and plant nutrition. He has worked across a wide array of both field and vegetable cropping systems and published in a variety of journals looking at improving the efficiency of nutrient management strategies for production agricultural systems.