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<blockquote data-quote="cquick" data-source="post: 7179460" data-attributes="member: 35800"><p>Evening all,</p><p>Drilling wheat today into a cover crop following OSR, I noticed this: (apologies for the blurry photos)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]913526[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]913527[/ATTACH]</p><p>This patch is where wheat was topped off in June 2019 due to excessive sterile brome. The following OSR didn't really establish, so the N applied to this area hasn't been used. The cover crop is so much better where there is more N! The cover got a chance against the volunteers, and even the legumes are better.</p><p></p><p>The rest of the cover crop is rather stressed due to the lack of N. My question is whether it's worth sprinkling 50kg of N on to maximise the amount of biomass and light interception? Or, as Gabe Brown et.al say, is a stressed crop trying to make more associations with the soil biota, and that this is a necessary step in 'priming the pump' as they say? Is the N going to make it 'lazy' and not do a proper job? Of course if I could get hold of manure at this time of year then that would be ideal, but would bagged N be worthwhile?</p><p>Discuss.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cquick, post: 7179460, member: 35800"] Evening all, Drilling wheat today into a cover crop following OSR, I noticed this: (apologies for the blurry photos) [ATTACH type="full"]913526[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]913527[/ATTACH] This patch is where wheat was topped off in June 2019 due to excessive sterile brome. The following OSR didn't really establish, so the N applied to this area hasn't been used. The cover crop is so much better where there is more N! The cover got a chance against the volunteers, and even the legumes are better. The rest of the cover crop is rather stressed due to the lack of N. My question is whether it's worth sprinkling 50kg of N on to maximise the amount of biomass and light interception? Or, as Gabe Brown et.al say, is a stressed crop trying to make more associations with the soil biota, and that this is a necessary step in 'priming the pump' as they say? Is the N going to make it 'lazy' and not do a proper job? Of course if I could get hold of manure at this time of year then that would be ideal, but would bagged N be worthwhile? Discuss. [/QUOTE]
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