The Efficient Fertilizer Consortium (EFC) is accepting applications for field trials to evaluate the agronomic performance and environmental impact of enhanced efficiency fertilizers (EEFs) across a range of geographic locations, cropping systems, climates and soil types.
Topics that are in-scope include:
- The impact of stacking EEF(s) with field management (e.g. tillage, cover crops, tile drainage) and 4R Nutrient Stewardship (4RNS) practices (right source, right rate, right time, and right placement of fertilizer in nutrient management to enhance understanding of how EEFs perform in a range of conditions and in crop rotations to better support producer decision making.
- Nutrient carryover effects from EEFs and crop rotations that include legumes.
- Identification of EEFs that work best to support crop nutrition, yield and nutrient use efficiency in specific climates, soils and cropping systems. This could include evaluating EEFs across various climate, cropping or soil conditions.
- Agronomic and environmental tradeoffs resulting from the implementation of EEFs and other management and 4RNS practices.
- Fertilizer technologies, including enzyme inhibitors, slow- and controlled-release fertilizers, biofertilizers and nanofertilizers.