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Are there any biological products which actually pay for themselves?
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Dan NW IA
Posted 12/16/2024 14:23 (#11012391)
Subject: Are there any biological products which actually pay for themselves?


Maybe this link below has been posted before, it provided some interesting university insight into biological product performance. Click the link below for the document, but I pasted the summary below from the document. 61 site years and 59 had no yield response over N alone. 

https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/snrs/Files/SF2080_Performance_of_Selected_N-fixing_Products.pdf

Sixty-one site years of N rate trials with and without the use of biological N fixing products were conducted in corn, spring wheat, sugar beet and canola in 10 states within the North Central Region of the U.S. Of the 61 site-years, 59 site-years had no yield increase with use of the product over N rate alone. Two site-years in corn had yield increases due to product use over the N rates alone. Given the low rate of positive benefits to the use of these products, growers should be skeptical of products that claim to provide asymbiotic/non symbiotic N-fixation for the purpose of allowing a farmer to decrease fertilizer N rate. It is good for farmers to be curious; however, the wise grower needs to test products of interest on their own farm in a replicated manner and search for un biased data on product performance before using them on whole fields. A recently published primer on how one might conduct on-farm research is provided in Thompson et al., 2022.

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