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Last updated: October 11, 2002
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How can sugarcane research in the Everglades Agricultural Area enable
natural land managers and farmers to work together to reduce phosphorus
and restore natural hydrology?
Part 2: USDA-ARS and Florida Crystals
| Long-term goal: Provide a no-cost alternative
for EAA farmers to help reduce phosphorus in their discharge water.
Approach: Identify and develop productive
sugarcane cultivars that yield well with less phosphorus fertilizer or
remove more phosphorus from the soil than current cultivars.
Progress:
- Among a group of 12 advanced selections, it
was estimated that the clone with the most leaf phosphorus had removed
8.5 kg per hectare more phosphorus than the clone with the least.
- Among 24 mostly commercial cultivars, several
were identified that would yield well with less phosphorus fertilizer.
Plans:
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Next: Conserving Organic Soils in
the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA)
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