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preplant

  • a word derived from plant.
    plant
    noun
    any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or the use of photosynthesis.

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Most High Plains wheat growers apply nitrogen either in a preplant application or in one pass at planting.

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Conventional preplant nitrogen applications for wheat fields in the area are 80 pounds per acre.

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