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Kitty O’Neil is Field Crops and
Soils Specialist and Team Leader with Cornell University Cooperative
Extension’s North Country Regional Agriculture Team.
Record high fertilizer prices this winter have driven a lot of creative thinking about cost-cutting strategies for 2022. Dairy farmers are at an advantage as manure is a tremendous source of all essential nutrients, and typical rotations of corn and alfalfa/grass result in nutrient and other benefits for corn following sod.
Manure is a valuable source of nutrients and soil-building organic matter. It is always important to manage manure nutrients to maximize availability for crops and minimize environmental losses, but that is especially true this spring as fertilizer prices have skyrocketed.
Last year was one of the warmest on record in the Northeast. It was the third warmest year in the last 127 years in New York behind only 2012 and 1998.
