molases on cereals

I have hear of research in the USA spraying sugar on to raise brix levels in corn to get them to a point where they convert atmospheric N into usable N...considered to be the holy grail...but like may technologies that would kill corporations..it goes missing...

And i would probably assume that people who do see a bump in crop performance, that is achieved by some sort of improvement in leaf efficiency...converting the light or atmospheric N into Grain size etc...(leaf applied of course not soil applied)

It's certainly an area worth playing with...i will mess with from next year onwards as will have molasses for calves so a bit will go missing!

Ant...
 

shakerator

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Arbitrage.

Buy wheat sell sugar!

Taking advantage of price differential in 2 different markets to make risk less profit. Perhaps easier to do from a trading desk than a crop sprayer. How does it make sense to use a refined foodstuff to produce more of an unrefined commodity?!
has anyone tried to use 1 kg/ha of plain sugar with foliar spraxs, might be even easier to dilute & less messy than molasses.
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Farmer Roy

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I have hear of research in the USA spraying sugar on to raise brix levels in corn to get them to a point where they convert atmospheric N into usable N...considered to be the holy grail...but like may technologies that would kill corporations..it goes missing...

And i would probably assume that people who do see a bump in crop performance, that is achieved by some sort of improvement in leaf efficiency...converting the light or atmospheric N into Grain size etc...(leaf applied of course not soil applied)

It's certainly an area worth playing with...i will mess with from next year onwards as will have molasses for calves so a bit will go missing!

Ant...

hey Ant, do you have any links to that research ?

I would certainly be interested in your results

( & thanks for pointing me to this forum via another one (y) )
 
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hey Ant, do you have any links to that research ?

I would certainly be interested in your results

( & thanks for pointing me to this forum via another one (y) )

I will try find it...alot of old timers were using brown sugar...it was only in the primary stages of research but they were investigating and thinking that this could happen...and might if explained some yield increases werent from the nutrition in the sugar but by N conversion from atmosphere...

Ant...
 

SimonD

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Who is using molasses this year and has anyone seen differing responses to different crop types. I know this is aimed principally at the soil but interesting to see if there’s any difference to crops response.
 

parker

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definitely using boost this year ,crops responded well last year and brix readings were higher where it had been used, also crop scorch was a lot less where used
 

SimonD

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definitely using boost this year ,crops responded well last year and brix readings were higher where it had been used, also crop scorch was a lot less where used

Were you using throughout the year or as a single application? I’m going to talk to them on Monday, nothing lost in doing so and to look at cost + delivery.
 

Clive

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Arable Farmer
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Lichfield
Apologies for my ignorance, but what is the molasses meant to do? How does it work? Thanks,

It’s carb’s (sugar) for soil biology

Theory is feed them and they can work harder / do more / multiply faster

Not a lot of proof or research to back any of that up however ! Just gut feel for most and some observational in field tramline type rough and ready on farm comparison
 

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About £1.30/kg. What rate anyone?
 

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