Massachusetts | Pfarms - 12/13/2009 11:19
From what little I know in farming, added nitrogen doesn't have any effect on soybeans, and especially the fact that it would have been applied one year prior to 2009 soybeans, meaning that the N more than likely was used up by 2008 corn, or leached in our sandier soils. We drew the conclusion that we were noticing 2008 applied P giving quicker maturity to the 2009 beans that were over the 2008 corn rows.
So from these findings would you still say that P as a starter is not worth it?
Lance
It sounds like the P became available the for the next years crop? Do you know that it helped the '08 corn any?
If that P helped your beans the next year in the 'rows,' might it not make sense to broadcast the P, and get that goodness over the whole field?
Just some food for thought.
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Do you use starter fertilizer?
