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Maintaining soil quality and optimising crop nutrition are important areas of work at STC. Our light sandy soils are ideal for nutrition studies looking at fertiliser rates, crop off-take and residues in the soil after harvest. Projects are undertaken on both field and protected crops. Recently we have looked at evaluating new controlled release fertilisers for containerised shrubs and also optimising nitrogen nutrition in leeks.