The Fertilizer Association of Ireland (FAI) website provides the latest information on fertiliser best practice and advice across a wide range of areas.
This website’s resources and information have been built up over the lifetime of the FAI. You will find an archive of technical bulletins and papers going back as far as the 1970s, as well as the most up-to-date content relating to topics that are currently relevant. The website is a free resource, and we encourage you to avail of it to keep up to date with the events and information that the FAI offers.
The FAI’s P and K calculator app for both iOS and Android provides general guidelines for crop offtake and/or general agronomic advice for P and K application to grassland and arable crops in Ireland. It is free to download on the Apple Store and Google Play.
You are also invited to tune into the FAI’s social media channels (Facebook, etc) for advice and reminders on a host of topical issues relating to soil fertility.
Fertiliser video series on efficient use of fertilisers
The FAI is currently running a video series focusing on:
The importance of taking good soil samples.The first steps in starting the fertiliser planning process. What happens your soil samples when they go to the soil lab.Guiding farmers/advisers on the efficient use of fertilisers. These videos will cover choosing the right fertiliser product and applying it at the right rate, at the right time and in the right place on the farm.
As part of the series, Wexford beef, dairy and tillage farmer Michael Doran outlines the key steps and processes he takes each year to set out his fertiliser plan for the season ahead.
This video series will be a “key tool to help both farmers and advisers at key times of the year to use all applied nutrients (chemical and organic fertilisers) as efficiently as possible. Utilising both soil test results and preparing a farm fertiliser plan are the first steps to making every applied unit of N, P and K count during the growing season, while protecting both air and water quality.”
Soil sampling is the first step to establishing soil fertility levels on a field-by-field basis. Tim Sheil of the Fertilizer Association of Ireland says: “By using the correct procedure for taking soil samples will ensure that the results will be accurate and representative and provide a solid foundation to build both lime and fertiliser plans for the soils on your farm.”
The Fertilizer Association of Ireland (FAI) website provides the latest information on fertiliser best practice and advice across a wide range of areas.
This website’s resources and information have been built up over the lifetime of the FAI. You will find an archive of technical bulletins and papers going back as far as the 1970s, as well as the most up-to-date content relating to topics that are currently relevant. The website is a free resource, and we encourage you to avail of it to keep up to date with the events and information that the FAI offers.
The FAI’s P and K calculator app for both iOS and Android provides general guidelines for crop offtake and/or general agronomic advice for P and K application to grassland and arable crops in Ireland. It is free to download on the Apple Store and Google Play.
You are also invited to tune into the FAI’s social media channels (Facebook, etc) for advice and reminders on a host of topical issues relating to soil fertility.
Fertiliser video series on efficient use of fertilisers
The FAI is currently running a video series focusing on:
The importance of taking good soil samples.The first steps in starting the fertiliser planning process. What happens your soil samples when they go to the soil lab.Guiding farmers/advisers on the efficient use of fertilisers. These videos will cover choosing the right fertiliser product and applying it at the right rate, at the right time and in the right place on the farm.
As part of the series, Wexford beef, dairy and tillage farmer Michael Doran outlines the key steps and processes he takes each year to set out his fertiliser plan for the season ahead.
This video series will be a “key tool to help both farmers and advisers at key times of the year to use all applied nutrients (chemical and organic fertilisers) as efficiently as possible. Utilising both soil test results and preparing a farm fertiliser plan are the first steps to making every applied unit of N, P and K count during the growing season, while protecting both air and water quality.”
Soil sampling is the first step to establishing soil fertility levels on a field-by-field basis. Tim Sheil of the Fertilizer Association of Ireland says: “By using the correct procedure for taking soil samples will ensure that the results will be accurate and representative and provide a solid foundation to build both lime and fertiliser plans for the soils on your farm.”
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