University of Minnesota Extension Specialist Lindsay Pease studies phosphorus and nitrogen cycling, including the differences between drained and undrained fields. “When we were looking at nitrogen cycling, we saw we were losing more out of our drained plots versus our undrained plots in 2022. For phosphorus, we really didn’t see any difference between the two years because phosphorus is a little sticky.” After evaluating soil moisture, Pease has an optimistic outlook for planting in 2022. “We collected soil moisture in our undrained and drained plots all the way through the summer. What we found was once we got to the end of the season and had more rainfall; it looks like our soil moisture is looking pretty recharged.”
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