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southern MN | I’m really happy to see discussion and efforts to work with this stuff. Thank you!
Those of us who have been around a while see similar things cycle around a few times in our lifetime, and based on past (non)performance we learn to be skeptical. That doesn’t mean it won’t work this time.
You being organic, that changes things for you a little. Expensive N or low N is just the nature of your process. It might help you where it wouldn’t help most of us economically.
Plants grow fine in dirt. Dad got 88bu corn averages with no added N way back in the day, and 120bu in the low spots. Today with soil tests and balancing the nutrients including N to fit yield goals, 170bu corn and spots over 230bu are possible in the same dirt.
If you want best yields, or best economic return, you have to match up the cost of N vs the bushels returned per N application, and so on.
A very light application of N will perk up a crop starving for N. Which you might see from a thunderstorm or snowfall or .5% N water?
A crop that has plenty of N won’t respond hardly at all to a 60lb N application.
Neither extreme is likely a good economic choice.
In the past and a few still today often put too much N on just to make sure enough is there. That seems to be irresponsible these days, as well as costly.
Not putting enough N on, or too late, can also be costly, and is wasteful of land, fuel, and other resources. Poorer yields are costly to the farmer and to the environment.
We need a best chance, best odds, scientific calculation of trying to balance and get a best economic yield. Both for us, for the consumers, and for the environment.
I really pause when you commented that this system makes N but it can’t be measured scientifically. That was the moment I nodded my head and said, oh one of those schemes……
I’m interested in the topic and updates and ideas, but with that comment that we can’t use science to understand this, I feel I will need to consult my ouija board to see if I should proceed.
I enjoy the topic, and am thankful for you sharing ideas and info on it.
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Green Lightning, Nitricity - Check my math
