With high input prices, in particular fertilizer prices, it is more important that ever to be keeping a close eye on nutrient use across your farm.
To help you keep track of these figures, we have launched our nutrient management as part of our farm work and input tracking tools.
The nutrient management tools work for both inorganic fertilizers such as Urea and organic fertilisers such as slurry.
You can set the nutrient content of the fertilizers that you are using on your farm so that you can track applied quantities of NPK and other micronutrients. This will allow you to:
Record the quantities of nutrients applied per job
Use target nutrient requirements to calculate the quantity of fertilizer required
Setting nutrient content of fertilizers
Mobile
Tap on the "Add Field Job" button at the bottom of the screen
Choose the job type: Fertiziling
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Add the field or fields you would like to add to the job by selecting the field name from the list or by choosing the field on the map. You can choose to add as many field as you need.
Select Add inputs
If you select the type fertilizer you will now see we have added nutrient section where you can enter the percentage of each nutrient.
With this update you will see a pre-populated list of common fertilizer.
You can also set up your own fertiliser inputs with their own %.
By default this shows the most common nutrients such as Nitrogen, Potassium and Phosphorus but you can click on the arrow next to ‘show micronutrients’ to add elements such as Boron, Copper or Magnesium.
You only need to fill in the ones that the fertilizer contains, all the others can be left blank.
Planning application rates
When you enter input rates for fertilizers which have nutrient content set up you will see additional rows for each of the nutrients in that fertilizer. You can:
Enter your target quantity of a nutrient to be delivered based on plant requirements (in the example below 120kg N) and have the quantity of fertilizer required calculated.
Enter the planned quantity of fertilizer to be applied and it will show the quantity of nutrients that will be delivered.
You can enter the target quantity of a nutrient or the planned quantity of fertiliser that you are applying.
Checking nutrients applied on a Field Job
When viewing the inputs on a Field Job you will see a dropdown arrow next to the input application rate, click this and further information about the nutrients are shown.
You can find full instructions for how to use these new tools in our support documentation.
We hope you will find this new feature useful. As always we are keen to to hear what you think and your suggestions for how we can make it even better. You can get in touch with us by email to support@fieldmargin.com