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Maximize Yields and Sulfur Availability
Match Sulfur Supply to Your Corn Crop's Needs
Corn growers need balanced crop nutriti...
Magnesium for Balanced Crop Nutrition
Magnesium (Mg) is one of three secondary macronutrients, along with calcium and sulfur, required for bala...
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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The Source of All Things Magnesium
Crops need magnesium to achieve proper growth and development, which is ...
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Magnesium: Often Forgotten, but Most Essential
Without photosynthesis, plant life wouldn’t exist. And without magnesium...
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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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Ammonium Nitrate
Ammonium nitrate was the first solid nitrogen (N) fertilizer produced on...
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What You May Not Know About Magnesium
In order to thrive, and ultimately achieve higher yields, crops need to ...
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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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Potassium and Magnesium in Photosynthesis and Photo-oxidative Leaf Damage
A fertilizer plan designed to reach top yields ensures adequate plant nu...
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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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Evaluating a Soybean Fertility Program
Historically, many soybean fertility programs are based on the philosoph...
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The Increasing Need For Supplemental Sulfur
The first occurrences of sulfur (S) deficiency in corn were reported in ...