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Maximize Yields and Sulfur Availability

Match Sulfur Supply to Your Corn Crop's Needs Corn growers need balanced crop nutriti...

It’s Time to Reevaluate Canola P Fertility!

Are you seed-placing your phosphorus (P) and basing application rates on seed safety rather than crop req...

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The Sulfur Solution

Farmers and retailers who have been in the business for a while probably...

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Sweet 17: Inside the Essentials

Justus von Liebig, a 19th century German chemist, made great contributio...

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Preventing ‘Hidden Hunger’

The signs may mimic nitrogen deficiency — yellowing leaves, reduced yiel...

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Sulfur’s Role in Soybean Success

Building soybean fertility is a process that starts from the ground up. ...

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Reducing the Continuous-Corn Yield Penalty

A recent study from DuPont Pioneer outlined the continuous-corn yield pe...

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Solving the Right Time Puzzle

When it comes to the 4Rs of crop nutrition (right source, right rate, ri...

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Unfenced Answers: Soil’s Biological Activity Key to Process Nutrients

'Today's hybrids and varieties are creating higher-yielding crops that r...

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Right State of Mind for Right Rate

For Dr. Paul E. Fixen of the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IP...

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Bringing a Horticulturist’s Eye for Nutrients to Montana’s Golden Triangle

The ‘Golden Triangle’ in north-central Montana is called that for its bo...

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Assessing Supplemental Nitrogen Needs for Field Crops

Having an adequate supply of nitrogen (N) is vitally important to a crop...

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Rescue Nitrogen Application Often Boosts Corn Yields (2010)

In really wet years, a lot of preplant nitrogen (N) is lost.Wet weather ...

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IPNI Guest Blog: Keeping Nitrate out of California Groundwater

California farmers deal with complex irrigation and fertilization requir...

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Keep a Log of Soil Acidity

Applying nitrogen (N) again this year? Chances are you applied N on the ...

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Drought, Nitrogen and Water Quality

Mother Nature pummeled farmers across the U.S. this past summer (2012). ...

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Sulfate Sulfur vs. Elemental Sulfur Part II: Characteristics of S Oxidation

The oxidation of elemental sulfur (S⁰) to sulfate sulfur (SO₄) in soil i...

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Nitrogen and Potassium Work Together for Higher Yields

By understanding how nutrients work together, farmers can optimize produ...

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Ammonia

Ammonia (NH₃) is the foundation for the nitrogen (N) fertilizer industry.

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Ammonium Nitrate

Ammonium nitrate was the first solid nitrogen (N) fertilizer produced on...

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Corn and Soybean Response to Nitrogen (N) and Phosphorus (P)

Yield response of corn to nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) and soybean r...

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Fall Applied Nitrogen in the Corn Belt

Risks associated with fall nitrogen (N) applications fit into four categ...

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The Increasing Need For Supplemental Sulfur

The first occurrences of sulfur (S) deficiency in corn were reported in ...

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Nutrient Needs of Continuous Corn

Some growers are considering a shift from a corn and soybeans rotation t...

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Nitrogen Nutrition for Winter Wheat

Managing nitrogen nutrition makes a big contribution to the yield and qu...

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The 17 Essential Nutrients: Don’t Leave Your Field Without Them

Sulfur deficiency in corn can masquerade as nitrogen deficiency. Boron d...

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Sulfur Nutrition of Cotton

Sulfur is an essential component of two amino acids, methionine and cyst...

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Maximize Yields and Sulfur Availability

Sulfur (S) is widely distributed throughout the world in many forms. Ye...

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High-Yield Potatoes Have High Nitrogen and Potassium Needs

Potatoes are grown in nearly every state in the U.S., with sales in exce...

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Gypsum

Gypsum is a common mineral obtained from surface and underground deposit...

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Coated Fertilizer

A variety of coatings have been applied to fertilizer particles to contr...

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