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1. Effect of Three Tillage Systems on Soil Bulk Density and Porespace DistributionMany grain producers in Kentucky use a 3 crop in 2 year rotation of corn fol lowed by small grain-soybeans, and commonly no-ti1 1 the soybeans and corn in order to intensively use sloping land for continuous grain production. Because of the intensity of machinery traffic in this system, grtwxs. are concerned that continuw no-till management may cause compaction, and that such fields may need occasional primary tillage. In order to obtain information regarding this situation, we conducted a test for... |
2. Nitrogen Recommendations for Wheat using the Chlorophyll MeterThe use of a hand held chlorophyll meter showed good promise in helping to make N recommendations for wheat on a field basis. Using 5 site-years on well drained soils over a 2- year period, a correlation index (R2) of 0.88 was found relating the March (Feekes 5) N needed for optimum yield with a differential chlorophyll reading. Research on this method will be continued and expanded to field trials. Soils in less than a well drained class may require a separate calibration or the method may not be... |
3. Fertilizer Recommendations Based upon Nutrient Removal or Soil Testing- A Spatial AnalysisCosts for nutrient management are generally high in crop production systems. Those costs are associated with activities related to: a) gathering information regarding soil fertility and plant nutrition for a field, b) acquisition of the actual soil amendments intended to improve the field's fertility and future crop nutrition, and c) application of the purchased soil amendments at the right rate in the appropriate place within the field. Information gathering usually consists of plant tissue andlor... |
4. Understanding Components To High Yielding Soybean Production SystemsThe increasing amount of products and techniques available to producers, coupled with increasing input costs, lends greater importance to the evaluation of management options for optimization of yield and economic return. This study was conducted to determine: 1) soybean yield potential when five additional inputs are combined in a high-intensity production system; 2) soybean yield impact of each additional input when removed from the high-intensity system; 3) soybean yield potential of each additional... |
5. Soil Nitrogen Mineralization In Different Tobacco Tillage-Rotation SystemsSoil nitrogen mineralization, the microbial and biochemical transformation of organic N (e.g. proteins) into inorganic N compounds (e.g. NH 4+, NO3-), is of central importance to the nitrogen management and productivity of agricultural soil. Effects of different burley tobacco tillage and crop rotation systems on net soil N mineralization were studied, their correlation with soil organic matter, and the vertical distribution of mineralized N. Net soil N mineralization was measured by long-term aerobic... |
6. Micronutrient Nutrition for Corn and Sobyean: Emerging Issues in KentuckyIn certain Kentucky regions, corn-Zn and soybean-Mn are well known crop-micronutrient problems. In response to grower observations/c oncerns in another region, soil and leaf tissue sampling indicated that pH P, K, B, Cu and Zn nutrition problems were co-mingled. A series of corn and soybean field studies were conduc ted between 2008 and 2010 to sort out/among possible problems/solutions, relati ve to similar soils in other areas of the state. The results indicate that when P and K nutrition are... |
7. Sensing Soybean Canopy Development Responses to and K Nutritional StressNormalized difference vegetative index (NDVI) has been correlated with physiological plant parameters and used to evaluate plant growt h. Recently, active canopy reflectance sensors have been used to determine N nutrition al needs of corn, wheat and forage grasses. There is little information about the use of this technique to detect soybean nutrient deficiencies. The objective of this work was to determine th e ability of the NDVI sensor to detect P and K deficiencies, and grain yield reduction,... |