By Randy Stockhorst, Loveland Products, Defiance, Ohio

For soybean plants, R3 is a critical growth stage during which the plant's nutrient needs rise to support pod growth and development. By applying Extract PBA with a soybean pre-emerge herbicide, growers can ensure their plants will have the nutrition they need at this critical growth period, which will position them for an excellent yield outcome.

In our area of northwest Ohio, potassium deficiency is the most prevalent deficiency that we've seen in R3 soybean tissue samples over the past several years. The amount of potassium stored in corn stalks is a little more than a 1-to-1 ratio on yield. That means that in a 200 bushel corn crop, for example, there are approximately 205 lbs of potassium locked in the stalks.

By applying Extract PBA on corn residue now, growers can accelerate nutrient release and mineralization so that more nutrients–including potassium–are available to their soybean crop at the reproductive stages.

“Extracting Nutrients from Residue in Spring for Higher Fall Yields” is now available to watch on demand. 

Watch the webinar to learn: 

• Why you need to manage residue in different cropping systems - including no-till and conventional tillage
  
  
• What factors affect residue decomposition, nutrient immobilization and nutrient release - from C:N ratios and temperature to moisture and microbes
  
  
• How a spring residue application of Extract PBA benefits growers by releasing nutrients for the coming crop

You’re invited to join us for “Extracting Nutrients from Residue in Spring for Higher Fall Yields,” a webinar being held on Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 8 am and 11 am CT.

With current crop prices, growers really need to keep a tight focus on nutrient efficiency this season. An application of Extract PBA can help by powerfully releasing nutrients from residue for use by the coming crop. 

In this side by side trial conducted in Fairbury, Illinois, one half of the harvested corn field was sprayed with Extract PBA in late September and the other was left untreated. There was very little moisture in the first 6 weeks after application, and photos were taken approximately 8 weeks after application. 

As the photo shows, decay on the treated stalks was well advanced compared to the untreated check after only 8 weeks.

With spring on the way, growers are already thinking about their plans for a successful growing season. For those with crop residues on their fields, a spring (pre-emerge) application of Extract Powered by Accomplish™ (Extract PBA) is a great way to maximize nutrient release from those residues to get more ROI out of their growing program. 

Extract Powered by Accomplish™ (Extract PBA, 6-0-0-13S) is an innovative biocatalyst specifically formulated to maximize nutrient release from crop residues. Combining the concentrated biochemistry of Accomplish^® LM with ammonium thiosulfate (ATS), Extract PBA helps growers accelerate residue breakdown and access the full nutrient value of the residues in their fields.

Benefits of Extract PBA:

• Accelerates residue breakdown
• Maximizes nutrient release from crop residue
• Supports easier plantability in the spring
• Promotes more even crop emergence
• Optimizes yield potential for next season's crop

After every harvest, valuable nutrients remain in the crop residue on the ground. How can growers access the nutrients in this season's residue to feed next season's crop?

Extract Powered by Accomplish™ helps growers more easily manage residue while releasing valuable nutrients for next season's crop. Use Extract PBA with fall or spring burndown to continue to take advantage of the nutrients that were applied during the previous growing season. Learn more by watching this short video.

“Accessing the Full Nutrient Value of Your Crop Residue” is now available to watch on demand. 

Watch the webinar to learn how Extract Powered by Accomplish™ helps growers more easily and cost-effectively manage crop residue, increases nutrient release from crop residues for the benefit of next season’s crop, and improves a grower's bottom line.

Post-harvest residue contains valuable nutrients, but they can’t be used by the next crop until they are extracted from the residue and enter the soil profile.