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• • 2011 - Issue 8

  If soil test results are unexpected…

  May 18, 2011

  Any time you get an unexpected soil test result, it would be worth doing the test again. Growers will not want to hold up seeding while waiting for soil test results, but if new test results are lower than the first results, growers could apply an in-crop top up…

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• • 2011 - Issue 8

  Safe rates of seed-placed nitrogen

  May 18, 2011

  • 4Rs
  • Nitrogen
  • Phosphorus
  • Plant establishment
  • Seed-placed fertilizer

  

  Safe rates of seed placed fertilizer depend on seedbed moisture conditions, soil type, row-width utilization, and nitrogen source. For example, the safe rate of seed-placed nitrogen is only 10 pounds of actual nitrogen per acre when using a 1” knife on 9” spacing and seeding into moist, medium soils…

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