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Study: Starter Fertilizer Can Increase Yield Potential By 15 Bushels

The Purdue Ag Centers study found while yield increases due to starter 2x2 fertilizer occurred less than half of the time in trials, the potential for increased yield due to starter 2x2 fertilizer as high as 15 bushels per acre makes its use attractive.
January 11, 2023 | Posted in Nutrient Management
Source: Purdue University Department of Agronomy

While yield increases due to starter 2x2 fertilizer occurred less than half of the time in Purdue Ag Centers' trials, the potential for increased yield due to starter 2x2 fertilizer as high as 10-15 bushels per acre makes its use attractive to consider.



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Red Leaves And Stalks In Corn

August 23, 2012 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101
Source: Chad Lee, University of Kentucky
Corn plants in many fields are turning red and that is not a good sign. The red color is coming from a build-up of sugar in the leaves and stalks. The build-up of sugar is a result of too few kernels being developed on the ears.
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Are Narrow Rows The Way To Go?

It’s no big mystery, maintains Purdue corn specialist Bob Nielsen. No-tillers can find the answer by assessing corn crop canopy development.
By Julie Orchard posted on September 1, 1998 | Posted in Equipment
Yield responses from ultra-narrow-row corn are no great miracle, says Bob Nielsen. The Purdue researcher, who was already conducting narrow-row corn studies in the 1980s, says these responses are a simple matter of crop canopy management.
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