2019 Spring Farm Outlook

Page 20 2019 Logan County Farm Outlook Magazine Lincoln Daily News March 21, 2019 gone up. It’s gone up some but probably not as drastically. It’s logistically challenged too, to get all these solutions done, too.” “I know part of the concerns are, will there be a lower application rate due to the higher cost?” mentioned Harms. “What we’ve learned in basic agronomy from the land grant universities is that it requires one pound of nitrogen for every bushel of corn grown. “Now there’s been some research trying to get this number to flex maybe to seven-tenths pounds of it, but everything that I have read, we are not to that point. It’s still one pound of N per bushel of corn. “Now you can take some credits for your dry applications that have some nitrogen in them. You can maybe take a little bit of credit for your soybean stubble on first year corn. However, we cannot look into the crystal ball to see how much nitrogen is going to mineralize in the soil. So that’s why we use the agronomy handbook of one pound applied per bushel of corn grown. So I don’t see that rate changing much. “They’ve been experimenting at land grant universities, but there’s nothing etched in stone. Dr. Emerson Nassar spent his whole life researching this project and he’s got a lot of great research on it, but I am not sure a general consensus between land grant universities has ever been reached because it’s a moving target. It changes so much every year.”