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The fertiliser economy of high producing pastoral systems

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In their currently published forms agronomic, economic, extensive, physiological, and nutritional aspects in the problem of providing pastoral farmers with fertiliser advice are incompatible to a considerable extent. An attempt has therefore been made to synthesise essential concepts in the above aspects in to a compatible whole. It is hoped that the approach is sufficiently explicit for practical agriculturalists to appreciate the great complexity which exists in the problem of formulating sound fertiliser advice.

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Middleton, K.R. The fertiliser economy of high producing pastoral systems. Fertilizer Research 1, 5–27 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01073561

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