Bert F. Quin

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Is anyone working on adding clays to cattle feed to reduce methane 'burping' losses?

As I understand it, in some regions around the world, clay is fed to cows in their indoor feed, or added to silage, for the purpose of reducing enteric methane loss. It looks to me like allophane...

04 November 2021 194 8 View

Is anyone else doing comparisons of granular and prilled urea on pasture or crops, so I can compare findings?

Prilled urea (0.8-3.8 mm) has become as easy to get as granular urea in the last 1o years. It spreads very well, and weight-for-weight supplies 10 times as many particles as granular urea. This is...

12 December 2014 6,527 2 View

Is anyone else looking at the use of dicarboxylate polymers such as PMA specifically to control Al and Mn toxicity on acid soils?

Such products are being commercially promoted for de-scaling irrigation pipes, improving water infiltration, and particularly for reducing P fixation. We have seen no hard evidence for the latter,...

12 December 2014 5,189 3 View