- Author: Konrad Mathesius
Join us next week for a workshop that will cover some basic wheat fertilization strategies and focus on how to use the Nitrogen Fertilizer Management for California Wheat Webtool.
Yolo County: Wednesday, October 11th 2023, 9 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
70 Cottonwood Street, Woodland, CA
Register: click here
Given the high cost of Nitrogen (N) fertilizer and a tendency to apply the majority of N prior to planting, growers stand to potentially leave a lot of money on the table by failing to optimize their...
- Author: Mark Lundy
- Author: Konrad Mathesius
Recent UCCE research has illustrated the value of in-season applications of nitrogen (N) fertilizer, particularly applications made at the early vegetative growth stages. This is typically the stage of growth when N demand from the crop is increasing rapidly, the soil is beginning to warm up, and microbial metabolism and associated mineralization/transformations of the various forms of N are increasing. Over a wide range of California conditions and across multiple seasons, applications of N fertilizer at this stage of growth have been shown to increase grain...
- Author: Jordon Wade
“Soil health”, as both a term and a concept, has been gaining traction in the last few years. The National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) has defined soil health as “the continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living ecosystem that sustains plants, animals, and humans”. Generally, soil health is considered to be the intersection of soil physical, chemical, and biological factors. Each soil will have differing levels of health within these three areas. Some of these constraints are inherent to a soil due to differences in the geologic material that it was formed from, but each individual soil can be optimized for agronomic performance by using management strategies that will improve the health of...