Strategies for improved management of fresh market spinach

To provide California's spinach growers with new management strategies for nitrogen fertilizer and irrigation practices, researchers performed experiments in the Salinas and San Juan Valleys of California. They determined that, to mitigate environmentally negative nitrogen losses, the nitrogen use efficiency can be increased by the use of soil testing at two critical points: at-planting and before the first midseason fertilizer application.

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