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Walnut Grove MN USA | I think the DTN article missed the boat on that one. Ray use sugar in everything, any spraying or fertilizing. Plain old cheap as you can get it white sugar( I got some strange looks at Sams Club carting out 500 lbs of sugar, told them I was making a really big sugar cookie). Sugar is Sugar as far as the plant is concerned. How do carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen enhance growth? They are growth!! Carbon dioxide, H20 ring a bell? usually 1 lb/acre if no crop growing or emerged and 1/2 lb when spraying. I don't know personally what Ray uses but a good friend of his and an excellecnt farmer uses these rates.
Edit: when asked about yield response to sugar you will often get "I don't know. It is so cheap to use that I just use it." In some cases it is about feeding the soil not the plant. If you think about it a plant really is converting sugar to starch anyway, then in the ethanol plant or a critters stomach it is converted back to sugar in some way. That is way oversimplified.
Edited by mike in sw mn 10/16/2007 12:33
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Foliar Feeding Sugar
