Mike Starkey, a forward-looking Indiana farmer, changed the way he feeds nitrogen to crops - injecting the fertilizer at the plant roots rather than broadcasting it. That boosted growth and saved money. But he realized by studying the runoff from his field tiles that most of the nitrogen leached from the field once the soybean [...]
Continue reading about Annual Ryegrass Boosts Production Because of Nitrogen Kick
Sep
29
Dan Towery on September 29th, 2009
A blog on AgWeb.com by Mike Starkey last week talked about how no-til and cover crops help reduce substantially the amount of nitrogen you need to add to corn and soybean crops.
Here are some excerpts. Click on the link, above, to see the whole article.
We first looked at no-till in the early 1990s to reduce [...]
