Crop-specific nutrient needs

Find crop-specific nutrient needs for Minnesota, including guidelines for nitrogen, phosphate, potash and other fertilizers, as well as strategies for ensuring your crops get the nutrients they need.

Corn

• Corn fertilizer guidelines
• Regional corn N rate calculator
• Corn supplemental N rate calculator
• Managing the rotation from alfalfa to corn
• Using banded fertilizer for corn production
• Banding fertilizer with corn seed

Soybean

• Soybean fertilizer guidelines
• Soybean nutrient calculator
• Managing iron deficiency chlorosis (IDC) in soybeans

Small grains

• Barley
  • Barley nutrient calculator
• Buckwheat
• Millet
• Oat
• Rye
• Wheat
  • Wheat nutrient calculator
• Wild rice

Bean, peas, sweet corn

• Edible bean fertilizer guidelines
• Fertilizing processing peas in Minnesota
• Fertilizing sweet corn in Minnesota

Grasses and legumes

• Alfalfa
  • Alfalfa nutrient calculator
• Grasses for hay and pasture
• Grass-legume mixtures
• Red clover, alsike clover and birdsfoot trefoil

Oilseed

• Canola
• Sunflower

Sugarbeet fertilizer guidelines

Potato fertilization on irrigated soils

Fertilizing wildlife food plots in Minnesota