Agricultural Statistics - Fertilizer Applications

**Fertilizer Primary Nutrient Applications, North Carolina, 2007**
Primary Nutrient	Planted Acreage	Area Applied	Applications	Rate per Application	Rate per Crop Year	Total Applied
Primary Nutrient	1,000 Acres	Percent	Number	Pounds per Acre		Mil. lbs
Corn	500
Nitrogen		92	2.0	34	68	31.3
Phosphate		71	1.2	27	31	11.0
Potash		89	1.1	89	99	44.2
Sulfur		25	1.4	17	23	2.9

Apples	6,800¹
Nitrogen		56	1.1	64	70	267.2
Phosphate		53	1.1	77	83	297.1
Potash		54	1.1	76	82	300.7
Sulfur		²	²	²	²	²

¹Bearing Acreage. ² Insufficient reports to publish fertilizer data.

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Last update August 11, 2008

NCDA&CS Agricultural Statistics Division, Herb Vanderberry, Director
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