Nitrogen
Your fertilizer program contains mobile and immobile nutrients. Understanding the differences can help you get more ROI from all of them.
The difference between 50°F and 55°F soil temps matters more than what you might realize. Here’s what the research says about application timing and keeping NH3 in your fields.
Bigger harvests mean more nutrients leave the field. Evaluating your crop nutrient removal rates can help as you start planning for next season, recommends one field agronomist.
Today’s nitrogen management strategies go beyond rates and timing to include protective measures that can give farmers more control over one of their largest input investments.
Josh Linville says tight nitrogen supplies, rising demand and global disruptions to sulfur supplies are keeping pressure on fertilizer markets, even if tensions in the Strait of Hormuz ease.
The collaboration adds Bayer’s formulation, field testing and commercialization to engineered corn microbes that wait for the root, then switch on. CEO Tim Schnabel puts a commercial product around 2029.
With global supply, production costs and geopolitics all in flux, corn and soybean growers face a tough call on how much of their 2027 crop inputs to price this fall.
If crops showed yellow stress before knee-high, surface inhibitors or the wrong nutrient form were likely to blame. Ken Ferrie explains how choosing the right fertilizer forms and why banded placement delivers twice the horsepower.