Minnesota/Kentucky fertility based on ENERGY | We have a planter with the ability to feed the plant, I'm not sure if we can stay ahead of the soil at this stage in the game? We have so much that effects our nutrition and cost? The bigger issue is keeping nitrogen around! With all the stabilizers and technology to reduce microbe activity? Does this really make sense? When you look at nitrogen stabilizers it's pretty simple slow down microbial activity or sulfur and calcium combined with carbons.
So dry programs
I would alway use pell lime and Pelletier gypsum and add pellitized humates!
Liquid would be the same and easier with so many different carbon to add to your nitrogen.
We have found this out the hard way remember for every 1 lb. ammonia applied you lose 1 lb. of calcium, the interaction between potassium and calcium would be close due to the close atomic mass numbers, so if your a 200 lbs. per acre plus corn on corn nitrogen user you need to be careful not to go down to 120 lb. and expect the same results!
This is all dictated first in the rhizosphere the narrow region of soil that is directly influenced by root secretions and associated soil microorganisms. Soil which is not part of the rhizosphere is known as bulk soil. The rhizosphere contains many bacteria that feed on sloughed-off plant cells, termed rhizodeposition, and the proteins and sugars released by roots. Protozoa and nematodes that graze on bacteria are also more abundant in the rhizosphere. Thus, much of the nutrient cycling and disease suppression needed by plants occurs immediately adjacent to roots.
Fix this region and start going deeper, there are many thoughts on this subject but gypsum and calcium combined work the best and if you can figure out how to make this happen you will see a six foot deep soil rhizophere and now you can feed the soil and the plant will never starve. |
do you fertilize the soil or the plant?
