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Minnesota Corn: High Nitrogen Prices – Is Now the Time to Try Polymer-Coated Urea? Mar 22, 2022
With high fertilizer prices, farmers are looking for alternatives to make every pound of nitrogen (N) fertilizer count. Is now the time to try controlled-release polymer-coated urea? To be as […]
Corn: How Your Crop May Be Getting the Sulfur It Needs – DTN Jan 28, 2022
Sulfur has long been a necessary ingredient for corn crops to grow, thrive and maximize yield. But how your corn crop gets its fill of this key nutrient is changing […]
Corn: Nitrogen Management – Getting Your Numbers Right May 5, 2021
Ian Plagge will apply 240 pounds of nitrogen (N) per acre this year on corn-on-corn acres and 190 pounds per acre on corn-after-soybeans. Crunching the numbers on nitrogen applications is […]
Minnesota: Phosphorus and Potassium Fertility – Everything to Know – Podcast Feb 8, 2021
In this installment of the Gopher Coffee Shop podcast, Extension educators Ryan Miller and Brad Carlson recorded a podcast all about phosphorus and potassium fertility. We recruited Dan Kaiser, Extension […]
Minnesota Corn, Soybeans: Don’t Forget Potassium When Making Fertilizer Plans Sep 10, 2020
Dry weather conditions early in the 2020 growing season brought about some issues related to potassium (K) that we have not seen for a few years. Soil moisture is required […]
Minnesota Corn: Is Managing Nitrogen Becoming More Difficult? Feb 18, 2020
If farmers don’t have enough challenges lately with trade issues and low commodity prices, recent wet growing seasons have made nitrogen management of corn more difficult. While annual precipitation has […]
Fertilizer Management – How Soil Compaction Impacts Decisions Oct 28, 2019
Another wet fall means that harvesting crops from saturated fields could lead to compaction issues. Many farmers believe the old adage that nothing you do in the fall can hurt […]
Minnesota: Irrigation, Nutrient Management Field Day, Becker, Aug. 15 Jul 31, 2019
The Becker Irrigation and Nutrient Management Field Day will take place on Wednesday, August 21st at the Becker Sand Plain Research Farm. Register online by August 15th here. On the […]
Minnesota Corn, Soybeans: Late Planting, Fertility Concerns – Podcast Jun 13, 2019
In this installment of the Gopher Coffee Shop podcast, Extension educators Ryan Miller and Brad Carlson sit down with Jeff Vetsch, Soil scientist at the Southern Research and Outreach Center, […]
Minnesota Corn, Soybeans: Late Season Nutrient Management – Podcast Aug 28, 2018
The end of the growing season has presented a lot of variation in weather from wet to dry across Minnesota. Now is also the time to make decisions on fall […]
