TACTICAL PLAN. North America

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1 TACTICAL PLAN North America

2 IPNI North America Tactical Plan Need 1: 4R Nutrient Stewardship must become globally adopted as the scientific basis for sustainability. T Stay current with nutrient stewardship for assigned cropping systems and maintain relationships with leading scientists. Improve nutrient management practices for conservation tillage cropping systems. Increase attention given to nutrient management of forage systems by developing new educational materials. Increase adoption of precision agriculture to meet nutrient stewardship objectives. Better connect 4R Nutrient Stewardship and precision agriculture. he issues related to plant nutrient stewardship within North America are diverse. The IPNI North America Program sees great opportunity for enhanced public communication, both directly from IPNI and indirectly through partners in industry associations, universities, farm and environmental organizations, sustainability initiatives, and government agencies. IPNI s stewardship approach in North America focuses on helping agriculture meet the nutrient-related sustainability challenges it faces using practices consistent with principles of sustainable development. It promotes utilization of the principles of 4R Nutrient Stewardship through collaborative initiatives that advocate and communicate sustainable nutrient management. Need 2: Nutrient education is inadequate for current and future agronomists. Improve coordination and delivery of IPNI-produced scientific and educational material. Examine fertilizer stewardship impacts on hypoxia using current N and P concentration and delivery data to update the state of knowledge on higher crop yields and N and P harvest removal. Provide local information and solutions on the link between nutrient management and groundwater nitrate. Determine the need for undergraduate soil fertility education tools to build human resource capacity and develop an on-line Certified Crop Adviser (CCA) International Exam preparation course. Encourage CCA preparation courses to be taught in colleges and universities. Collaborate with university and private sector agronomists to localize the global concept of 4R Nutrient Stewardship. Periodically review existing IPNI materials to revise, update, or eliminate, and identify existing scientific and communications gaps.

3 Need 3: Better fertilizer recommendations are needed to boost productivity, economic returns, and environmental stewardship. Support development of decision support systems that account for weather in order to improve nutrient use efficiency, particularly that of N. Identify factors that affect the accuracy of predicting long-term soil K supply to improve performance of soil K assessment methods. Demonstrate how Stanford s original concepts influence current N recommendations to help students understand how N recommendations are created. Create a database and protocols for N rate trials. Need 4: Yield gaps must be identified and closed to provide a sustainable food supply. Identify and quantify yield gaps for maize and soybeans in priority regions. Need 5: Agricultural sustainability is only maintained by proper nutrient management. Create a database of plant nutrient concentrations that can be continually updated and provide support for accurate prediction of nutrient removal. Track the current nutrient requirements of cropping systems in North America by maintaining an up-to-date, accessible database of soil test summaries and through analysis of the resulting data. Work with TFI to summarize major fertilizer N sources and trends in the U.S. Identify social, economic, and environmental metrics at field to national scales, including IPNI s Nutrient use GIS (NuGIS) and soil test summary for North America. Glean data from the literature to establish the current apparent N recovery efficiency values for major cereal crops. Meet with individual scientists to get current 4R science adequately recognized in climate change models, especially COMET FARM. Work with the fertilizer industry and sustainability groups to improve understanding and acceptance of sustainability concepts. Review of the current science of cadmium in P materials to update this aspect of sustainable P management.

4 T he IPNI North America Program seeks to be a valuable source of information by focusing on creating comprehensive databases for nutrients. We will continue to improve the scientific approaches we use to survey nutrient concentrations in soils over time; and to support sustainability within North America. Communication and outreach is a primary focus in support of IPNI activities around the world. IPNI leadership in precision agriculture is recognized largely through the growth and continued success of the InfoAg conference. InfoAg is the premier event to discuss and view applied precision agriculture technology. InfoAg puts IPNI and the fertilizer industry on the cutting edge of information management and technology development. The dissolution of long-standing North American regional boundaries into a more issue-focused approach will be balanced with the years of IPNI s accumulated knowledge within specific North American geographies. This expertise will continue to allow IPNI to assist crop advisers, fertilizer dealers, and member company agronomists with questions and problems concerning local and regional fertility issues. We work closely with state-level associations in providing educational programs, and we benefit from long-term professional relationships with key university faculty. The communication of the most recent scientific agronomic information places IPNI in a trusted role with many groups. We seek to influence the development of proper fertilizer recommendations and appropriate nutrient use in key cropping systems where information gaps exist.

5 IPNI develops and promotes scientific information for the responsible management of plant nutrition for the benefit of the human family. North America Program (United States, Canada) Dr. Tom Jensen, Director, (Focus: conservation ag., ag. retail training, spring-seeded cereals, pulses, oil seeds) Dr. T. Scott Murrell, Director, (Focus: fertilizer recommendation approaches, potassium assessment, data management, corn/soy, soil test summary, nutrient uptake and removal) Dr. Steve Phillips, Director, (Focus: precision ag., site-specific management, row crops, wheat and rice) Dr. W. (Mike) Stewart, Director, (Focus: fertilizer sources, winter-seeded cereals, and grass forages) Regional Website: nap.ipni.net Associated Global Staff Dr. Robert Mikkelsen, VP Communications, (Focus: irrigated and high value crops) Dr. Cliff Snyder, Director, Nitrogen Program, Program Website: nitrogen.ipni.net IPNI Website: ipni.net IPNI November 2015 Dr. Tom Bruulsema, Director, Phosphorus Program, Program Website: phosphorus.ipni.net