VA Nutrient Management Certification
Exam (Turf and Landscape)
Application rate or nutrient rate - ✔✔ correct answer means the quantity of major nutrients,
nitrogen as N, Phosphorus as P205, and potassium as K20 on a per acre basis to supply crop or
plant nutrient needs, and to achieve realistic expected crop yields.
Banding or sideband - ✔✔ correct answer means the placement of fertilizer approximately two
inches to the side and two inches below the seed.
Best Management Practice - ✔✔ correct answer a conservation or pollution control practice
that manages soil, nutrient losses, or other potential pollutant sources to minimize pollution of
water resources, such as split applications of nitrogen, or use of cereal grain cover crops to trap
available nitrogen and reduce soil erosion.
Biosolids - ✔✔ correct answer means a sewage sludge that has received an established
treatment for required pathogen control
and is treated or managed to reduce vector attraction to a satisfactory level and contains
acceptable level of pollutants, such that it is acceptable for use for land application, marketing
or distribution in accordance with 9VAC25-31, Virginia Pollution Abatement (VPA) Permit
Regulation, of the State Water Control Board.
Broadcast - ✔✔ correct answer means the uniform application of a material over the field.
Calibration - ✔✔ correct answer means the systematic determination of the operational
parameters, such as speed and quantity delivered, of application equipment.
cereal crop or small grain - ✔✔ correct answer barley, rye, triticale or wheat
composted organic nutrient source - ✔✔ correct answer means the relatively stable, humus-like
product resulting from the control aerobic, thermophilic biological decomposition of organic
material that bears tittle physical resemblance to the raw materials from which it originated.
Exam (Turf and Landscape)
Application rate or nutrient rate - ✔✔ correct answer means the quantity of major nutrients,
nitrogen as N, Phosphorus as P205, and potassium as K20 on a per acre basis to supply crop or
plant nutrient needs, and to achieve realistic expected crop yields.
Banding or sideband - ✔✔ correct answer means the placement of fertilizer approximately two
inches to the side and two inches below the seed.
Best Management Practice - ✔✔ correct answer a conservation or pollution control practice
that manages soil, nutrient losses, or other potential pollutant sources to minimize pollution of
water resources, such as split applications of nitrogen, or use of cereal grain cover crops to trap
available nitrogen and reduce soil erosion.
Biosolids - ✔✔ correct answer means a sewage sludge that has received an established
treatment for required pathogen control
and is treated or managed to reduce vector attraction to a satisfactory level and contains
acceptable level of pollutants, such that it is acceptable for use for land application, marketing
or distribution in accordance with 9VAC25-31, Virginia Pollution Abatement (VPA) Permit
Regulation, of the State Water Control Board.
Broadcast - ✔✔ correct answer means the uniform application of a material over the field.
Calibration - ✔✔ correct answer means the systematic determination of the operational
parameters, such as speed and quantity delivered, of application equipment.
cereal crop or small grain - ✔✔ correct answer barley, rye, triticale or wheat
composted organic nutrient source - ✔✔ correct answer means the relatively stable, humus-like
product resulting from the control aerobic, thermophilic biological decomposition of organic
material that bears tittle physical resemblance to the raw materials from which it originated.
