The phrase "low application rate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the rate in which something is applied or implemented. For example, "The government introduced a new tax policy but it had a low application rate due to public disapproval."
Low rural income and the high price of machinery is another reason for the low application rate of large-scale agricultural machinery.1 The application of agricultural machinery largely depends on government subsidy (Liu 2013).
The low application rate is yet another indication that the government's response to the foreclosure crisis might not be helping those who suffered financial harm as result of bank errors or misconduct.
Localized irrigation systems (drip, trickle or spitter) apply water on a daily or near daily basis at a very low application rate (2 8 litres per hour per emitter).
Self-referral to physical therapy partially distorts both the low referral rate in general practice and the low application rate of education as singular intervention in physical therapy practice.
We therefore recommend the use of low application rates of manure when the objective is the microbial stabilization of the residue.
While a thinner material like hay proved to be most effective at high rates (600 g m−2), a thicker material like straw encouraged quick recruitment for these species only at low application rates (300 g m−2).
The characteristics of low application rates, good crop selectivity, low residue and environmental safety exhibited by Protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO, EC 1.3.3.4 -inhibiting herbicides have attracted a world-wide research interests.
Bouteloua gracilis, whose recruitment and growth were broadly impaired by mulch, showed an abundant and constantly increasing cover in the bare ground control and in plots with low application rates of hay.
The main-plot treatments comprised high and low application rates of chemical fertilizer, while the sub-plot treatments were water, diluted FB (1 500 by volume), WV (1 800 by volume) applied as soil drench and foliar spray, in nine treatment combinations which included untreated control treatment.
However, if low application rates are used then the timing of application may be less important.
That skepticism may help explain the low application rates.
