Written by Charlotte Cunningham from CPM Magazine
Results from YEN Nutrition shows that over 80% of crops submitted have nutritional concerns, as ADAS warns that farmers can no longer afford ‘guesstimate’ crop nutrition. With fertiliser prices remaining high, and grain prices still rising, crop physiologists at ADAS are urging farmers to measure their fertiliser performance with grain analysis and benchmarking. Crops primarily require nutrients through April and May when leaf canopies are expanding, and again for high yielding crops through June and July to feed grain nutrient storage. Farmers will need to have established soil supplies or applied extra nutrients in advance of these times, maybe supported by soil and leaf analysis. Therefore, the best time to assess nutritional success is at harvest with grain analysis, which can measure final nutrient capture by each crop and identify if extra nutrition was worth the spend, says ADAS. Dry spring challenges The firm’s grain analysis and benchmarking service, YEN Nutrition, has identified that farms often differ in their nutritional success. Most crops submitted for analysis after harvest 2021 – over 80% – had nutritional concerns, with management either being overly generous or consistently stingy with each of the 12 essential nutrients. Lower than optimal levels for nitrogen, sulphur and…
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Results from YEN Nutrition shows that over 80% of crops submitted have nutritional concerns, as ADAS warns that farmers can no longer afford ‘guesstimate’ crop nutrition. With fertiliser prices remaining high, and grain prices still rising, crop physiologists at ADAS are urging farmers to measure their fertiliser performance with grain analysis and benchmarking. Crops primarily require nutrients through April and May when leaf canopies are expanding, and again for high yielding crops through June and July to feed grain nutrient storage. Farmers will need to have established soil supplies or applied extra nutrients in advance of these times, maybe supported by soil and leaf analysis. Therefore, the best time to assess nutritional success is at harvest with grain analysis, which can measure final nutrient capture by each crop and identify if extra nutrition was worth the spend, says ADAS. Dry spring challenges The firm’s grain analysis and benchmarking service, YEN Nutrition, has identified that farms often differ in their nutritional success. Most crops submitted for analysis after harvest 2021 – over 80% – had nutritional concerns, with management either being overly generous or consistently stingy with each of the 12 essential nutrients. Lower than optimal levels for nitrogen, sulphur and…
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