Posted by Paul Searl on February 20, 2012 at 09:47:35 from (66.254.215.22):
In Reply to: Nitrogen in snow!!! posted by wilson ind on February 20, 2012 at 05:47:05:
yep, I have read about them doing that a few times before in journals and stories. Most people don't beleive me either. Seemed to be a fairly commonplace thing though, and really, at the time, most farmers were pretty poor. I figure that the first snow probably came down really before the ground got frozen. microbial activity can take place still at fairly low temps in soil so a little nitrogen shot would also probably help there.
Since the industrial revolution, nitrogen in snow/rainfall has supposedly gone way up, most of IL, Indiana Iowa and parts of surrounding states received over 7kg/hectare in 1998 according to this
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