Lucerne beats leaching cap at Taupo
Landcare Research is proving that the age old practice of growing lucerne can help farmers.
Dr Malcolm McLeod, a soil scientist at Landcare Research has found that N leaching from cut and carry lucerne is 5kg/N/ha/year when previous estimates were up to 26kg/N/ha/year.
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