Crop-specific needs

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

Fertilizer recommendations by crop

Corn

Fertilizing corn in Minnesota
Use of banded fertilizer for corn production
Corn nutrient calculator

Edible bean

Fertilizing edible bean in Minnesota

Grasses and legumes

Fertilizer recommendations:

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

Oilseed

Fertilizer recommendations:

Canola
Sunflower

Potato

Potato fertilization on irrigated soils

Small grains

Fertilizer recommendations:

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

Soybean

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

Sugarbeet

Sugarbeet fertilizer recommendations

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