Press release 50/2019 from 10.12.2019 | Last changed: 20.02.2020
… up to do when it comes to reducing its nitrogen inputs, say the latest nitrogen soil surface budgets of the German Environment Agency (UBA) which are based on data up to 2017. The average nitrogen surplus of the nitrogen soil surface budget is 77 kg per hectare (kg/ha) and has remained virtually constant … surpluses in agriculture for more than 20 years. The calculation of the national soil surface budget takes into account the amounts of nitrogen entering fields and …