1-23 IAN Vitamins

Treating crops like you’re giving them multi-vitamins. “Providing plants with adequate and properly balanced nutrition is fundamental to optimizing crop production and ultimately increasing yields,” says Dr. Dan Froehlich, agronomist with The Mosaic Company. “Many factors have influenced growers’ approach to crop nutrition in recent years. We believe information in the Guide will help growers better understand crop nutrition and make informed decisions as they plan their fertility programs for 2011.

 “We’ve been focusing on balanced crop nutrition for the 3-4 years. We look at the NPNK and as you’re trying to push yields higher we start worrying about sulphur and, in the case of corn, we have zinc as well, boron on some other crops, so we saw a trend where farmers were cutting back on their PNK and keeping their nitrogen levels up, we knew things could get out of balance and you don’t get good nitrogen uptake efficiency as well so our focus has been on balanced crop nutrition, if you’re limited on the number of dollars you have, you may need to adjust your yield goals for good return on investment and environmental outcomes.”