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Fertilizer Trials On Dryland Winter Wheat, I. G. Sampson
Fertilizer Trials On Dryland Winter Wheat, I. G. Sampson
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Wheat is one of the major crops of Utah and for more than 50 years farmers have been raising wheat on the dry lands of the state. The system they use is known as the alternate cropping or crop-follow system and consists of one year of crop alternating with one year of clean cultivation known as fallow.
Wheat removes a considerable amount of the natural plant food elements from the soil each year. This is especially true of nitrogen. According to Bracken and Greaves (9) the original low supply of nitrogen in most Utah soils together with the depleting effects …