Farmers using a fall soil primer before corn saw wheat yields jump from 12-13 bushels to 85 bushels without added nitrogen or cover crops. The 85-bushel wheat tested at 13% protein, and corn grew green and healthy without nitrogen applications. Results suggest the primer stimulates soil biology.
Questions this video answers
No — farmers reported that no nitrogen was applied.
Twice in the fall before it went into corn.
Approximately 12 bu/acre one year, 13 bu/acre the next, then 43 bu/acre after starting the primer, and 85 bu/acre in the fourth year.
13% protein.
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Speaking with Lennis, Kane and Marshall about their wheat yields on their very challenged farm. And about this one corn block that we're looking at, this one corn block has been summer fallow and corn and.
Then summer fallow and corn for the last four years.
No nitrogen applied, not growing a cover crop, not applying manure, not applying compost. Simply doing fall primer in the.
Fall primer twice in the fall before it went into corn. And there is no nitrogen deficiency. The young leaves are still green. It's growing impressively. All the nitrogen must be coming from the biological inoculants from the fall soil primer. And then on the wheat they had, their history was going 12 bushel one year, 13 bushel the next year. And then they started doing the fall soil primer. Then it just jumped to 43 bushels. And the fourth year was 85 bushels. And that 85 bushels had 13% protein content. Normally you get high protein, low yield, or vice versa, almost never high yield and high protein, which they saw this year. Very impressive.
2016 with Boulder Fed Week, that was the beginning of the AA program on that particular field. And then in 2017, we did put the ball primer down and went with all the AA recommendations on filial feed and we planted the corn as per AEA recommendations.
2018, it was summer fallow, in the.
Fall, we put the fall primer down.
Now we did plant this year using Bio Gold on the Sea and we put their recommended starter in furl. The problem we had up there was.
Our landlord was very conservative and he would just do nothing. Then he had some other practices he.
Wanted us to do that were not good at all.
And we was having disasters having it down there at 12. We had some hot years back there. We had it even lower than that.
But then we went with aea, said.
We'Re going to finance it ourselves.
But all we put on was a Paul primer. That's it.
We had 40 bristles to make them.
And then this year again, fall primers. All we put on and we had 85 bushes an acre, 12 bushes to an acre to 40 bushels to an.
Acre to 85 with 13% protein, which is a little unusual to have high yields and high protein. Usually when your yields get up there, protein low. We've had a good year with rain, we've had good weather. So we've had a lot of good biology activity this year, more than usual.
And together with the program, biology based fertility responded real well.
