Bennedy aims to benefit every grower!
By virtue of our close relationship with our customers and the custom-tailored advice we provide, we wish to take a stage further and help everyone with crops. With the help of our crops guide you can find everything you need about crops, such as the ideal temperature range for each growing cycle, production ranges in Ireland or details of every crop variety.
By virtue of our close relationship with our customers and the custom-tailored advice we provide, we wish to take a stage further and help everyone with crops. With the help of our crops guide you can find everything you need about crops, such as the ideal temperature range for each growing cycle, production ranges in Ireland or details of every crop variety.
Nutrient absorption in plants and its adverse factors
Plant roots obtain most of the nutrients from a soil with optimal physicochemical properties (texture, permeability, pH, electric conductivity, mineral elements ...), with adequate organic matter, micro and macrobiota and with quality irrigation water. Except for carbon that is captured by the leaves in the form of gas (carbon dioxide), and some of the oxygen is also captured by the leaves.
Unfortunately, there are very few occasions to find an ideal soil and water to obtain the optimum economic performance for farming. In addition to this, on many occasions’ crops suffer from abiotic stress, produced by natural phenomena and biotic stress, produced by organisms. Among the abiotic stress we find drought, extreme temperatures (cold, frost, heat waves), salinity, sodicity, excessive radiation, floods… Among biotics stress factors we find attack of insects, herbivores, fungi or bacteria, among others.
Adverse factors for good crop yields:
- Poor soils - Poor water quality - Abiotic stress - Biotic stress
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