Soil Fertility Management in Crop Production
A special issue of Crops (ISSN 2673-7655).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 February 2026 | Viewed by 29
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fertilizer; cover crops; plant nutrition; hydrogels; soil analysis; organomineral fertilizer
Interests: cover crops; fertilization; soybean; corn; rice and bean
Interests: cover crop; sustainable agriculture; crop-livestock integration; soybeans and direct planting system
Interests: integrated crop-livestock system; soil science; X-ray diffraction (XRD); diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS); mid-infrared spectroscopy (MIR-Mid infrared) and magnetometry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soil fertility management is a crucial part of the crop production process. In this context, innovations in efficient fertilizer use, cover crops, integrated cropping systems, and fertilizer use management are currently being evaluated by sensors and spectroscopy in order to promote efficient and sustainable crop production systems. The objective of this Special Issue is to publish articles in the area of soil fertility management for crop production.
The scope of this Special Issue includes the following: the use of mineral fertilizers; organic and organomineral fertilization; increased efficiency fertilizers; slow-release fertilizers; soil fertility management systems using cover crops and no-till planting; and advances in techniques for measuring soil chemical parameters, fertilizer parameters, and plant nutrients by using sensors and near-infrared equipment. We ask those interested in publishing in this Special Issue, titled “Soil Fertility Management in Crop Production”, to provide their submissions containing a title and a 150-word abstract.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Rafael Felippe Ratke
Dr. Juliano Magalhães Barbosa
Dr. Leandro Pereira Pacheco
Dr. Laércio Santos Silva
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Crops is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- fertilizer
- fertilization
- cover crops
- plant nutrition
- hydrogels
- soil analysis
- sensors
- integrated crop–livestock system
- crop yields
- spectroscopy
- soil management
- soil physics
- organomineral fertilizer
- organic fertilization
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