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Nitrogen Management. Intro to Soils. Nitrogen in the Plant. Part of Amino Acids: Building blocks of proteins Enzymes: responsible for all biological process Nucleic Acids Cholorphyll Needed for Carbohydrate use Increases root growth. SCIENCE Magazine. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Nitrogen Management Intro to Soils
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Nitrogen ManagementIntro to Soils

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Nitrogen in the Plant Part of

› Amino Acids: Building blocks of proteins› Enzymes: responsible for all biological

process› Nucleic Acids› Cholorphyll

Needed for Carbohydrate use Increases root growth

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SCIENCE Magazine Excess nitrogen flowing down the

Mississippi each year is estimated to be worth $750,000,000 (Science, Malakoff, 1998)

NUE in cereal production must be improved

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Raun and Johnson, Agron J. 91:357-363

N that is not used is lost

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Liebig's Law of the Minimum

Growth is controlled not by the total of resources available, but by the scarcest resource. › Only by increasing the amount of the limiting

nutrient (the one most scarce in relation to "need") was the growth of a plant or crop improved.

Justus von Liebig1803 - 1873

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Bray’s Nutrient Mobility Concept

Root SystemSorption Zone Root Surface

Sorption Zone

Nutrient limitation expressed as a % of potential yield, or “sufficiency”, and independentof the environment

Nutrient limitation directlyrelated to yield potential, and dependent on the environment

Mobile Nutrients Immobile Nutrients

Plants respond to the totalamount of mobile nutrientspresent

Plants respond to the concentration of immobilenutrients present

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Nitrogen is mobile…..

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Nitrogen is mobile…..

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Yield GoalsYield Goals: average of last 5 years +20% average of the last 3 best years.Yield Goal includes, grain and forage/lbs of meat

Nebraska study showed that farmers overestimated yield by 2 Mg ha-1 (32 bu ac-1), resulting in an excess of 35 kg N ha-1 (Schepers et al., 1986)

Over-optimistic yield goals were the largest contributor to excess N applications with average yield goals exceeding actual yields by over 15%, only about 30% of the fields were within 5% of the yield goal (Daberkow et al., 2001)

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N rate recommendation Nitrogen Recommendation =

Yield Goal N rate – Residual N

Residual N is› 0-6” (Top-soil) Soil Test NO3 › 6-18” (Sub-soil) Soil Test NO3› NO3 from irrigation› Cover Crop Credits.

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“After the FACT” N Rate required for “MAX Yields” Ranged from 0 to 140 lbs N/ac

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Optimum N Rate Max YieldAvg. 49 lb N/ac +/- 39 Avg. 43 bu/ac +/- 13

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4 R’s

1. Right Source2. Right Place3. Right Rate4. Right Time

IPNI: International Plant Nutrition Institute

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Nitrogen sources Anhydrous Ammonia NH3 Urea Liquid UAN DAP, MAP, APP Coated N (sulfur and Polymer)

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Nitrogen Placement Corn vs wheat vs forages

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Application

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Application

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Right Rate Cereal Grains, Cotton, Sugar Beets

Malting Barley

Yield Goal Soil Testing Sensors

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Right Time Pre plant and Top-dress/ Side-Dress

› Winter Wheat › Corn

Forage Systems› Spring, summer, fall

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Thank you!!!

Brian Arnall373 Ag [email protected] available @ www.npk.okstate.eduTwitter: @OSU_NPKYouTube Channel: OSUNPK

www.extensionnews.okstate.edu


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