Dairy farmer Robin Nicolson has halved nitrogen use on grazing leys while maintaining annual growth at 12t/ha dry matter by foliar feeding instead of ...

Dairy farmer Robin Nicolson has halved nitrogen use on grazing leys while maintaining annual growth at 12t/ha dry matter by foliar feeding instead of using conventional, prilled fertiliser.

Despite the unprecedented market promotion of foliar feeding products, Slaton believes the issue hinges on two bottom-line questions. What is the frequency of crop response and what is the average ...

“Overall, from a cost and yield perspective, I look at foliar feeding as a Band-Aid for a problem that occurred in the field, not as a practice to gain high-yielding crops,” he says. Some ...