Importance Of Nitrogen In Agriculture. Nitrogen cycling in agriculture introduction and purpose manures and other organic residuals (e.g., biosolids, food processing wastes) and many commercial fertilizers available to producers contain nitrogen (n). Role of soil mineral nitrogen, available phosphorus and potassium on the nutrition of agricultural crops.
Nitrogen is one of the most important nutrients for crop growth, second only to water, and is the major nutrient the producer can control. Manures and other organic residuals (e.g., biosolids, food processing wastes) and many commercial fertilizers available to producers contain nitrogen (n). An important part of this process is to ensure that you use farm management practices that account for the capacity of soils and the crops being grown to remove nitrogen.