During the latter part of 2019 the Society developed a new website to replace the venerable previous one. The new site was intended to provide Members with a number of new benefits, chief among them being the ability to download pdf copies of our archive Proceedings for free. It went live at the beginning of […]
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The 4th European Power to Ammonia Conference (NH3 Event) takes place on 28-29 May 2020 in Rotterdam, immediately after the IFS Technical Conference. As the use of ammonia as a potential energy storage resource is set to become of increasing importance to the fertiliser production industry, so the Society and the NH3 Event are working […]
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As well as our involvement in supporting the CRU Phosphates 2020 conference, the Society has agreed a similar arrangement for the earlier Nitrogen + Syngas one Delegates will share experience with 700+ technical experts – including 140+ senior decision-makers from operating companies The CRU Nitrogen + Syngas conference takes place on 17-19 February 2020 – […]
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The global phosphates community will gather in Paris for CRU Phosphates 2020 in a few weeks’ time, on 8-10 March. We are delighted to announce that the International Fertiliser Society is officially supporting the event. The CRU Phosphates Conference offers an ideal opportunity to meet with industry peers from across Europe and beyond, to get up […]
Our 2019 Conference, held on 12-13 December at Robinson College, Cambridge, featured eleven papers, covering topics such as measuring N indicators and budgets, the role of cover crops within crop nutrient regimes, new technology to manage the application of nutrients in manure in real time, the nutritional role and contribution of silicon, and a review […]
The poster that was voted ‘Most Noteworthy’ by delegates at the 2019 IFS Agronomic Conference was by Ian Kavanagh et al. from Teagasc, the Irish Government extension service. It was titled ‘Mitigation of ammonia emissions from stored cattle slurry using waste acidifiers and chemical amendments’. The poster described experimental work to measure the effectiveness of […]
With just a few days left to register, cumulative registrations to date are running ‘neck and neck’ with those of the 2018 Conference, which attracted the highest number of delegates in recent times. Society Secretary Steve Hallam commented, ‘It looks as if the combination of a strong and relevant theme for the papers, plus the large […]
The ten entries that the judging panel scored the highest have been determined. Each finalist is now working on a poster, which will be displayed at the 2019 IFS Agronomic Conference, 12-13 December, Cambridge, UK. The names of the finalists, their research topics and their affiliations are shown in the table below. The Brian Chambers […]
In 2020 the IFS Technical Conference will come to Amsterdam for the first time. It will be held in the Casa 400 hotel on Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 May.
A collection of 26 Proceedings from the archive of the IFS, relating to the management of agricultural soils