Week 8 Submission - Thad Kruase

Thad Kruase

Savior Nitrogen Application

As we all know, this year has been filled with trials. With extreme above average rainfall, poorly drained fields are showing severe signs of nitrogen deficiency. The below images are of a customer’s field that we deemed necessary to late season top dress urea. This particular area of my territory has by far seen the most rainfall over the growing season. Whenever a rain event occurred there was major ponding of water in standing corn and caused nitrogen immobilization and leaching in the soil profile. This customer top dressed 60 pounds of urea on July 24 and I would expect to see an immediate crop response just in time for the reproductive stages of the corn. This will be evident in the weeks to come by comparing crop health images.