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Feb 01, 2020
By Dave Dyson, Agronomist
The Andersons Plant Nutrient Group
Update from the Field: Accelerate Yields with
Acetate - The Andersons Plant Nutrient Group
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There has been a lot of talk lately around
acetate fertilizers and the benefits that come with placing an acetate
fertilizer near the root system. So, what are the benefits of an
acetate-based fertilizer? You can think of the acetate portion of the
fertilizer as electrolytes transporting vital nutrients throughout the
plant. As shown in Figure 1, Texas A&M University researchers have
shown the different absorption rates of potassium between the
different forms of fertilizers, and potassium acetate showed the
highest absorption percentage.
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Figure 1: Department of Horticultural Sciences,
Texas A&M University.
The Andersons has proven in our Walton test plot and third-party test
plots that our Korrect™ and RGS® (Root Growth Stimulator), both
acetate-based fertilizers, have increased yields consistently with low
application rates.
I. C. Anderson, Professor of Agronomy at Iowa State University, wrote
in a 1989 article about what he and his students observed. He applied
anhydrous ammonia with zinc acetate at different spacings from the
seed. The greatest increase in yield and root mass was when the zinc
acetate was applied close to the seed and as near planting as
possible, Figure 2.
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Figure 2: Dr. Anderson
shows in this study the closer you can apply zinc acetate to both the
planting date and to the seed, the greater the yield advantage. Date
planted is weeks after zinc acetate and anhydrous ammonia band had
been placed so it would be “near” the row of corn or “between” the
30-inch corn rows.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9a92/24cf786380d581b68d6f4cd03681f2a6bd0b.pdf
In the article, Dr. Anderson was quoted, “During the following winter
I grew corn seedlings in sand and found larger root systems on treated
plants and recently a post-doctoral researcher did the same and found
larger root systems.” In the Iowa State research project, Professor
Anderson showed an increase in yield by as much as 31 bu/ac.
For the last two years, our potassium acetate product called Korrect
has been tested at the soybean test plot near Walton, Indiana, and the
results have been favorable. We saw a 6.41 bu/ac increase in 2018 and
3.44 bu/ac increase in 2019, Figures 3 and 4.
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Figure 3 and 4: Trials
conducted in Walton, Indiana in 2018 and 2019, testing Korrect at a
rate of 1gal/acre in-furrow on soybeans.
With a cost of less than 1 soybean
bushel, this product is a no-brainer. The Andersons also carries a
zinc acetate product called RGS, Figure 5.
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Figure 5: RGS is a zinc
acetate that should be placed in a high poly starter close to the
seed.
This product is designed to be positioned with a 2x2 starter. RGS was
tested in 2018 at our Wisconsin corn test plots and increased corn
yields by 19.7 bu/ac. RGS was tested again in 2019 at our Nebraska
corn test plots and increased yields by 20.41 bu/ac.
In conclusion, placing a high acetate product like Korrect or RGS
close to the seed by way of a starter carrier will increase acetate in
the plant.
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