Fertilizer and Nutrient Management
Fertilizer Storage and Handling
Environmental Principle: Fertilizers and nutrient solutions can have a significant impact on surface and groundwater when accidents or misapplications occur. Care in storage and handling is essential to environmental stewardship. Factors including construction of storage facility types of shelving, methods of containment, and cleanliness are all important to preventing losses of fertilizers and nutrients to the environment.
More information can be found in the Best Management Practices for Cornell Greenhouses Plan:
Fertilizer Handling and Delivery
Environmental Principle: Fertilizer and concentrated and dilute nutrient solutions can have a significant impact on surface and groundwater when accidents or misapplications occur. Care in handling and delivery of fertilizer products is essential to environmental stewardship. Application equipment must be maintained for proper use rate and to prevent backflow into wells and community water supplies, as well as to avoid cross connection with potable water supplies within the facility such as drinking fountains.
More information can be found in the Best Management Practices for Cornell Greenhouses Plan:
Greenhouses documents intended for use by the Cornell Greenhouse community in New York State are provided as resource information and tools for fertilizer inventory, logs, injectors, stock tanks and nutrient management can be found on the Fertilizer Handling Record Keeping and Tools page.