Aerating Drip Irrigation Water: Assessing Agronomics And Economics

One of the most coveted inputs in farming is...air. Countless acres of soil have been plowed over the centuries to introduce air into the root zone. Of course, plowing is extremely energy-intensive and environmentally destructive, so it made perfect sense  back in 1941 for William Durrell of the University of Kansas to write in Plant Physiology, “...a study of suitable oxygen carriers, which could be applied as fertilizer and which would release oxygen slowly to the soil during the growing season, may be worthwhile.”

 

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