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Overapplying readily available N can also interfere with the uptake of other nutrients and lead to yield drag and profit loss, just as underapplying can. Fall application of nutrients for a cashcrop the following year makes no sense from a plant nutrition standpoint. Most N demand is in midsummer. This is nonsense.
Photo credit: Cornell Watson) Ideally, wed get this sweet corn in the ground today, he says, indicating a bag of organic seed and a nearby half-acre plot of loose brown soil. With tobacco as his principal cashcrop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March.
Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cashcrop is harvested.
The cost can be prohibitive, and it can be tricky to fit them into a conventional row-cropping system. A 2022 Stanford University satellite study reported that although cover cropping reduces erosion and improves water quality, it also causes significant yield hits for corn and soybeans.
His soybean and wheat crops were also impacted. But there was one crop that suffered less. “It It doesn’t take a whole lot of rain to make a good yield for the sorghum crop,” said Rendel, who plants about 1,000 acres of grain sorghum each year on his 5,000-acre farm. Last year, he averaged only 22 per acre.
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It's important to understand your USDA hardiness zone and how the seed will germinate, grow, and reproduce in your area. Understanding your soil (loamy, clay, etc), the PH, and the other trace nutrients that are available in your soil is vital to growing healthy crops. It is advisable to understand your soil and know the PH.
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It was the annual field day at The Mill , a popular Mid-Atlantic retailer of agricultural products including seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides. One stop showed off a soybean yield trial. It’s kind of a win-win: Get a farmer in the program, get the information, and get to sell them seeds or pest control.”
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If tobacco built the farm over generations, it’s no longer a dependable source of the kind of income his grandfather earned decades ago, much less its best cashcrop. The yield required to make it work is becoming, you know, nearly a record crop every year,” said Brandon Batten, a farmer in Four Oaks, North Carolina.
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