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McDonald recommends using blood meal fertilizer, because it has a very high level of nitrogen. "It's a quick release into the gardens, so we can have that quick uptake into the root system," she says.

Illinois farmer Mike McLaughlin has embraced that goal with his nitrogen program in corn for more than a decade. He establishes some baseline fertility for each corn crop with a fall application ...