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SCHEDULE I
(ss. 3, 20, 35 and 50)
CHARTS OF MAXIMUM ANNUAL DEPOSITS FOR ALL FERTILIZERS USED ON A PARCEL ACCORDING TO THE CROP GROWN AND EXPRESSED IN KILOGRAMS OF TOTAL PHOSPHORUS (P2O5) PER HECTARE
CORN
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Phosphorus Percentage of Crop yields
content phosphorus ___________________________________
(kg P/ha) saturation (MT/ha at 15% humidity)
(P/AI) < 7 7 to 9 > 9
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0 - 30 - 140 150 160
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31 - 60 - 130 140 150
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61 - 90 - 120 130 140
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91 - 120 - 110 120 130
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121 - 150 - 100 110 120
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151 - 250 <5 90 100 110
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5 to 10 75 85 95
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>10 50 60 70
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251 - 500 ≤10 65 75 85
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>10 50 60 70
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501 and more - 40 50 60
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CEREAL (OATS, WHEAT, BARLEY) AND SOYA
MEADOWS AND PASTURES
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Phosphorus Percentage of Crop yields (MT/ha at 15% humidity)
content phosphorus _______________________________________
(kg P/ha) saturation
(P/AI) < 2.51 2.5 to 3.51 > 3.51
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< 52 5 to 72 > 72
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0 - 30 - 120 130 140
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31 - 60 - 110 120 130
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61 - 90 - 100 110 120
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91 - 120 - 90 100 110
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121 - 150 - 80 90 100
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151 - 250 <5 70 80 90
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5 à 10 55 65 75
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>10 30 40 50
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251 - 500 ≤10 45 55 65
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>10 30 40 50
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501 and more - 20 30 40
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1 This line refers to cereal and soya.
2 This line refers to meadows and pastures.
NOTES
(1) This Schedule is used to calculate the minimum area required to comply with section 20 or 20.1 of the Regulation. The minimum area required corresponds to the areas necessary to dispose of the phosphorus (P2O5) load from the raising site, from which the phosphorus (P2O5) load, if any, treated or eliminated in accordance with section 19 has been subtracted. The load of any other fertilizer used in conjunction with livestock waste on cultivated parcels must be considered in the calculation of the minimum area in accordance with the conditions of this Schedule.
(2) This Schedule refers to a total maximum deposit of phosphorus (P2O5) and not to a deposit of available phosphorus (P2O5). The deposit of phosphorus (P2O5) is based on the type of crops, crop yield, richness of the soil and phosphorus saturation rate of the parcel in question.
(3) The values of maximum deposits are not fertilization recommendations. An agrologist may, in an agro-environmental fertilization plan, recommend fertilization for a given parcel greater than the value appearing in this Schedule.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the total deposit recommended by an agrologist for all parcels and the years referred to in the agro-environmental fertilization plan is greater than the deposit calculated by using this Schedule, the agrologist preparing the plan will have to specify in the plan the agrological and environmental reasons justifying the excess and inform the director of the Direction de l’analyse et de l’expertise in the region where the raising site or spreading site is situated thereof in writing.
The agrologist must, through fertilization recommendations, ensure that the level of soil phosphorus saturation (P/Al) is lowered to a value less than 7.6% for soil with a clay content greater than 30% and to 13.1% for soil with a clay content equal to or less than 30% and that it is maintained below that value.
(4) The deposit calculated using this Schedule is the sum of the deposits of phosphorus (P2O5) that may be spread on each of the parcels referred to in the agro-environmental plan. The deposit of phosphorus (P2O5) that may be spread on a parcel is obtained by multiplying the number of hectares of the parcel by the value indicated in this Schedule for the parcel in question.
(5) In the absence of analysis of the soil specifying the richness of the soil and the phosphorus saturation rate of a parcel, it is possible to use the average value of the analyses of neighbouring parcels. If no analysis is available, the deposit value that must be retained is the value corresponding to a soil richness of 501 and more.
(6) The crop yield for a given parcel is determined from the actual yields of the last 5 years in the following manner:
— for an agricultural operation where a crop is insured by an individual crop insurance program of La Financière agricole du Québec, the crop yield for the agricultural operation shall be used;
— for an agricultural operation where a crop is insured by a collective crop insurance program of La Financière agricole du Québec, the average value of the zone of the agricultural area shall be used; and
— for an agricultural operation where a crop is not insured by La Financière agricole du Québec, the operation’s crop yield measured according to a method recognized by La Financière agricole du Québec or the average value for the zone of agricultural area determined under the collective crop insurance program shall be used.
(7) For an agricultural operation that operates parcels referred to in an agro-environmental fertilization plan with types of crops that are not referred to in the chart, the maximum deposits of phosphorus (P2O5) on those parcels in particular shall be set by the agrologist preparing the plan. The agrologist shall also specify in the plan the reasons justifying the values of the recommended maximum deposits.
