Farmer's Weekly

Phosphate boost for maize

37 YEARS AGO

1911

13 FEBRUARY 1987

2024

The results surprised this farmer, who is getting an extra ton a hectare and building up his soils fertility.

As a direct result of applying natural rock phosphate to his newly acquired maizelands, a Karkloof commercial-maize and fresh-milk farmer obtained an average of 1t/ha more grain than previously. Andrew Lund of the farm Triandra in KwaZulu-Natal bought an adjacent farm a while back, just in time for the 1985 planting season. These lands were planted

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