What is Your Field Lacking?

Last year, Stutsman’s ProVantage customers participated in a leaf tissue sampling study to analyze nutrient uptake, availability, and  deficiencies that may need corrected in the season. United Suppliers took a total of 4,465 leaf samples across 253,500 acres. The results definitely surprised us!

Top 3 corn deficiencies:

1. 88% of samples were deficient in Boron
2. 67% of samples were deficient in Manganese
3. 50% of samples were deficient in Zinc

These nutrients are very important to your plants throughout the growing season.

• Boron helps with the translocation of sugars, influences cell development, is important for pollination, and is important for grain fill.
• Manganese is very important for enzyme activation.
• Zinc is an enzyme activator, stimulates root and shoot growth, and is important for chlorophyll production

Top 3 soybean deficiencies:

1. 25% of samples were deficient in Sulfur
2. 21% of samples were deficient in Boron.
3. 20% of samples were deficient in Nitrogen.

These nutrients are very influential on plant function throughout the growing season.

• Sulfur is utilized in protein synthesis, is a component of some amino acids, plays an important role in enzyme synthesis and nitrogen fixation in nodules, and also increases oil content of soybean seed.
• Boron is crucial for translocation of sugars, pollen formation, grain fill and cell growth/development.
• Nitrogen converts to amino acids which are the building blocks for proteins, is utilized in producing necessary enzymes and structural parts of the plant, and is part of the stored protein in soybean seed.

 

For more information on these results or foliar nutrition products, contact a Stutsman agronomist.