Management-Plant Nutrient Requirement
Nutrient Management
Minnesota NRCS

Updated 05/21/2009

This page focuses on determining crop nutrient needs as part of nutrient management planning. Issues related to application timing; form of applied amendment; and sensitive area practices are found on other pages of this nutrient management web-site.

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Yield Goals

Calculating Yield Goals (pdf; 54 KB)
(NRCS Fact Sheet)

Soil Sampling

 Soil Sampling (pdf; 187 KB)
(NRCS Fact Sheet)

• Soil Sampling
  (Link to University of North Dakota Soil Sampling Publication)
   
• Soil Testing Laboratories
  (Link to Minnesota Department of Ag Approved Lab Website)

Plant Nutrient Requirements

• University of Minnesota Nutrient Management for Commercial Fruit and Vegetable Crops
  (Link to University of Minnesota website)
   

• University of Minnesota Extension Agriculture 5/09
  Crop specific nutrient recommendations can be accessed at this site.
   

• Plant Nutrient Calculator
  Purdue University software that calculates University of Minnesota Fertilizer Recommendations
   
• USDA-NRCS Plants Database
  Link to NRCS tool that estimates nutrients removed in harvested portion of plants. Used when planning manure applications onto legumes or when planning manure applications on a phosphorus removal basis.
   

• Version 3.0 of Nutrient Management Planner for Minnesota (pdf; 234 KB) 5/09
  This software calculates crop nutrient needs and plant food available from manure.  It allows the user to develop custom nutrient management plans or plans that meet USDA-NRCS requirement.   One version 3.0 runs in Access 2003.  Another version runs in Access 2007.
   

Inventory Worksheets

Cropping History and Soil Fertility Inventory-NRCS Form MN-CPA-41 (word; 43 KB)
Form used when working with client the 1st time to gather information needed for nutrient management planning purposes. For detail see the “Planning” Sub-page of this nutrient management web-site.

Nutrient Management Practices Inventory-NRCS Form MN-CPA-43 (word; 143 KB)
Form used when working with client the 1st time to gather information needed for nutrient management planning purposes. For detail see the “Planning” Sub-page of this nutrient management web-site.

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