Fertilizer Inputs
Sulfur for Corn: 2010 and Beyond?
Mar 16, 2010, Source: University of Minnesota Extension
With spring almost here, there have been questions regarding sulfur application for corn for the upcoming year. Our current Minnesota recommendations focus on sulfur application to sandy soils that are low in organic matter...
Can Corn Be Taught To Fix Its Own Nitrogen?
Mar 4, 2010, Source: University of Illinois
Nitrogen (N) fertilization is essential for profitable corn production. It also is a major cost of production and can contribute to degradation of the environment...
Corn Farmers Trade Stalks for Cattle Manure to Fertilize Fields
Feb 15, 2010, BY LIZ MORRISON
Fall is barter time for two Iowa farmers. Kevin Fluit, a cattle producer from Rock Rapids, IA, and his neighbor, cash grain farmer John Friedrichsen, are swapping corn stalks and manure...
Wet Spring, Corn Residue Affect Spring Nutrient Management
Feb 8, 2010, Source: University of Minnesota Extension
The agriculturally troubled fall of 2009 may be over, but here comes the sequel: a potentially wet spring. Due to the late corn harvest, many fields have yet to be tilled, and they have large amounts of residue remaining on the surface...
Advice on Completing Fall Tillage and Fertilizer Applications in the Spring
Feb 1, 2010, BY MARK MOORE
The prolonged 2009 fall harvest continues to be felt into the new year, as producers shift the fall fieldwork into the spring. And that could create a...
Maintaining Optimum Nutrient Levels Is Critical for Corn and Soybean Growers
Feb 1, 2010, BY MARK MOORE
With lower fertilizer prices, remember that maintaining optimum P and K levels are critical in sustaining productive soils. The past few years of near-record...
A Winter Urea Story (With Apologies to Charles Dickens)
Dec 10, 2009, By Dave Franzen, Soil Specialist NDSU Extension Service
It had been 10 long years since Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge's fertilizer plant partner, had died. Ebenezer had bought out Marley's share of the business from Jacob's relatives and had run the plant ever since. It was Dec. 1 and the weather in his part of North Dakota had dropped below zero every night for a week...
Corn and Soybean Producers and Dairies Benefit From Manure as Fertilizer
Dec 1, 2009, BY LIZ MORRISON
If you've got a large dairy barn near your grain farm, you might smell manure. Or you might smell Dairy manure saved the Koehl family of Hancock, MN,...
Study Shows Irrigation and Boost Bushels with Less Nitrogen | Water Works
Dec 1, 2009, By Ron Heiniger North Carolina State University
New research shows that irrigation on North Carolina's black soils can raise corn yields and boost nitrogen (N)-use efficiency. As corn production costs...
Ashes From Poultry Manure Proving To Be A Good Source of Fertilizer for Corn and Soybean Farmers
Nov 15, 2009, BY LIZ MORRISON
Minnesota farmers have a new source of local, renewable fertilizer. No, it's not manure but it once was. North American Fertilizer, Benson, MN, conditions...
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