Are you sinking good money in unnecessary plant foods?

(Fisons don't recommend it!)

By now you probably know that your farming area has a separate Fisons recommendation book. (You should already have your own copy.) Clearly these new local recommendations will be highly accurate. And it's this accuracy that can stop you spending money on nutrients you don't need. Let's take an actual example from one of the books.

On the light soils of East Shropshire, arable and cash cropping cover the bulk of the acreage. Such a system leaves little or no re- sidues of nitrogen in the soil-fertilizers must make up for this and provide for the full needs of the crops. So the book recommends Fisons High-N 52 (20.10.10) for spring cereals and Fisons High-K 51 (13.13.20) for potatoes.

Move to central Shropshire and livestock are more important. Here, in a system of mixed farming, the leys in the rotation mean that useful amounts of nitrogen remain in the soil. Taking this into account, Fisons recommend only moderate levels of fertilizer nitrogen: Fisons High-standard 54 (15.15.15) for spring cereals and Fisons 50 (10.15.20) for potatoes. More nitrogen would simply be wasted-and that goes for the money which bought it.

You'll find the same attention to detail in Fisons Recommendation Book for your area. Your crops are considered in your conditions. And the recommendations are fitted to them. So you'll never pay for plant foods that your crops will never use.

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