THE PROFITABILITY OF LARGE SCALE AERIAL FERTILISING
1974-10 Scottish Forestry, No. 4, Vol. 28, pages 261 – 271
THE PROFITABILITY OF LARGE SCALE AERIAL FERTILISING
By Peter N. Edwards
Forestry Commission
This is one of those small, thin pamphlets that at the time, mid 1970’s, were avidly read and acted upon.
Much of the timber/wood fibre now being harvested, mid 2020’s, was dependant on these aerial fertiliser applications and their success in aiding the establishment of trees on nutrient impoverished sites.
Aerial fertilising is now a memory in British forestry. Current flying costs for a helicopter and the lack of serviceable spreading equipment, along with large increases in nutrient costs have made the whole operation prohibitively expensive.
It is now even more important to match the correct tree species to the long term fertility potential of the site in which they are being planted and to remedy any nutrient problems, before competing vegetation/site type result in crop failure.
The whole pamphlet has been scanned as an OCR pdf file and may be found at the pdf link below.
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