Finish Strong with GrainMaker.
The GrainMaker® family of products help your crop finish strong and resist late-season diseases to maximize yield at harvest. Complete your crop nutrient management program with finisher that gives your corn and soybeans a final boost. GrainMaker® provides growth promoting rhizobacteria to enhance the division of cells as well as leaf and root growth. For corn, the added sugar promotes pollen tube growth and fertilization to full out each ear of corn. Soybeans also receive boron and sugar to move nutrients throughout the plant, retain flowers and fill pods.
Corn Finisher: a tassel applied nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium and boron nutrient blend.
Soy Finisher: a nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, boron and manganese nutrient blend applied during growth stages R1-R5.
Applying a PCT | Sunrise® finisher in the last stages of growth gives your crop the additional nutrition they need to develop to their full potential and also increase tolerances to common foliar diseases. GrainMaker finishers from PCT | Sunrise are compatible with fungicides and insecticides to make application easy and reduce your trips across the field. Contact your PCT | Sunrise team to finish strong with GrainMaker.
Is Your Corn Experiencing Rapid Growth and You’re Wondering About Your Herbicide Options?Is Your Corn Experiencing Rapid Growth and You’re Wondering About Your Herbicide Options?
The 2023 corn crop has finally began the “rapid growth” stage across Ohio and many growers are asking about what their herbicide options are with varying growth stages and heights within fields. Listen in this week as we revisit this very topic from last growing season.
PCT Shorts: Staging Corn in Varying Growing Conditions
Today’s PCT Short covers staging your corn in varying growing conditions when staging based on leaf growth may not be accurate.
JJ in the Field: Is Your Corn Outgrowing Your Herbicide? Do You Know Your Corn’s Growth Stage?
Rapid corn growth, varying plant size across fields make it very challenging to make “on-label” herbicide applications. Tune in as we talk about some popular corn herbicides and associated label “cut-offs” and use rates.
A Solution to Help with Stress ToleranceA Solution to Help with Stress Tolerance
BioBuild® C-Green Amino + II is a seaweed extract fortified with organic acids in combination with N-amino acids + a soil penetrating agent to help any plant mitigate stress. C-Green Amino + II can be used in corn, soybeans, wheat, alfalfa and veggies as in-furrow/2×2 starter, transplant water solution or foliar application with crop protection products, fertilizer, or other biological products. We recommend applying C-Green Amino + II just prior to a stress event or immediately following the event for best activity and faster recovery.
Why C-Green Amino + II?
C-Green Amino + II provides stress mitigation to the plant later in the season and under hot and dry or cool and wet conditions. Formulated for in-furrow, 2×2 and foliar applications, this product can be mixed with crop protection, fertilizer or other biological products when applied as a foliar application. C-Green Amino + II includes a soil penetrating agent to keep the seaweed extract, organic acids and amino acids in the soil profile available to the plant without losing them through the soil with water leachate. The seaweed extracts in C-Green Amino + II are loaded with natural plant-growth hormones such as auxins and cytokinins and fortified with organic acids with N-amino acids in one application. Organic acids work even better when combined with seaweed extracts; they hold onto plant-growth hormones in an exchangeable form to amplify their effects on plants.
What are the benefits of Amino Acids?
Plants have the capacity to biosynthesize all the amino acids required from nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. The biosynthesis of amino acids is complex and energy consuming. As such, the application of amino acids allows the plant to save energy on this process which can be dedicated to improving plant development during critical growth stages or times of stress.
Amino acids are fundamental to a plant for protein synthesis. Naturally produced N-amino acids, found in C-Green Amino+ II, are synthesized by the plant at specific phases of development. These phases include nitrogen mobilization in germinating seeds, nitrogen recycling in vegetative cells in response to stress and nitrogen remobilization during seed embryogenesis. The supplement of amino acids in essential quantities can improve the overall quality of crops leading to improved yield potential.
Application Timing:
C-Green Amino + II application works best in-furrow or in transplant water solutions. The application use-rate should be increased when applied away from the seed or roots in a below ground application. C-Green Amino + II should be applied at the V3-V5 stage in corn and/or later in beans, but consult with your Sunrise Agronomy Solutions Advisor for final application timing.
Learn More about BioBuild here.
Dry Soils and Nitrogen Application. What should I do?Dry Soils and Nitrogen Application. What should I do?
Welcome back to JJ in the field, I’m your host, Jonah Johnson. So, we are dealing with dry conditions. Water is evaporating from our soils; corn is at sidedress, top dress height right now. Growers are trying to continue to work in the fields, obviously. Today’s question revolves around, should I keep adding nitrogen to the soil, considering how dry is?
We all know we need moisture for mass flow from the nitrogen source to get the solution to move into those root zones so that plants can uptake that. If you look at the field behind me, obviously it’s a very dry situation. Dry soils planted around May 20th had very little rain and the corn has kept growing and emerged and has been growing surprisingly fast, which is telling me, and perhaps in your own situation, that the corn’s found moisture enough for it to grow.
Considering that there is moisture below our feet currently right now, if you dig down you will find some moisture. And if we’re side dressing or top dressing, our nitrogen application right now, that’s something we need to really consider. What does it cost you if you shut down right now and then apply any more nitrogen?
If we break this down, there are two camps. Are you injecting below ground or are you applying on top ground? So, if we first talk about, we’re putting nitrogen, whether it’s a UAN solution or anhydrous ammonia in the soil, think about if you are injecting right now that you’re getting below the ground, probably anywhere from 3 to 6 inches.
And chances are the deeper you go, the more moisture we’re going to find that will begin to go into a solution with the soil moisture that is there. So obviously, the UAN is a solution already and it gets diluted and goes into a mass flow situation, once it gets moisture, that will become available to our plants once those roots get to that band.
If you’re a Y-dropper right now, some guys I work with either Y-drop when the plants are younger, they may wait on the corn, get some height to it and go and Y-drop or there’s some application coming out there that has the ability to inject in the center and Y-drop at the same time or vice versa.
Consider again UAN is a solution and that will go in those plants because if you think about it, you’re putting that band right on top of the root zone and that linear cornrow, and that will get into the plant initially because its placement is so much closer via band. I encourage you to keep trucking, if you will, right now with our nitrogen application, because as we have moisture, obviously if we don’t get a rain, that moisture is going to start to diminish.
And if we can get that nitrogen in solution, it won’t go anywhere because the nitrosomonas, nitrobacter bacteria in the soil. They’re going to be dry too. And they won’t be as active as breaking down those nitrogen sources. The urea and the ammonium component of in the UAN is going to be quite stable on its own.
And then the nitrate fraction, which is going to be really up-takeable, those are all about to go in the solution and be available to that plant quickly. But we’re not going to lose those because we’re not in a situation where we get into a denitrification or ponding type situation that would encourage leaching. So, keep that in mind.
Anhydrous ammonia, that’s going to be a stable source regardless as it goes in the soil. Obviously, we’d like to see a little bit of moisture to seal that application slot, but again, you’re injecting that quite deep, typically seven or eight inches unless you’re using a high-speed toolbar. In those deeper situations, again, we will find moisture enough to seal that and retain that nitrogen around for those plants.
So ultimately the situations that I’m listing, what we don’t want to happen is that corn plants start to bolt and then either we can’t get back in once rains do return if we get into a very wet situation because, obviously, that that’s a bad day. If we can’t supply nitrogen in a timely order. The other side of the fraction is guys that typically top dress their corn.
Whether you’re using a urea or AMS type product, ammonium sulfate is going to be a very stable product on its own. The sulfur proponent in that fertilizer essentially gives you a time delayed release. The sulfur has to be oxidized in the soil for that sulfur and ammonium to be released or the sulfur protects the ammonium of the nitrogen proponent.
I don’t have concerns about that on the refraction, whether you’re using the blend or urea by itself. I do encourage you to use a NBPT stabilizer on your application because as you can see, hot, sunny days, intense sunlight, lots of U.V. light, it’s going to be penetrating and warming the soil surface that will break those urea pearls down very quickly.
Then there’s been a questions asked about, well, what about the urea enzyme, which is a naturally occurring enzyme on the in the soil and in biomass that initially starts to break urea down? Does that need a lot of moisture for that that process to begin? And the answer is, it does need moisture. But my concern is, the bright sunshine and the winds is going to start breaking that down and make that release ammonia up into the atmosphere if we don’t protect it.
My encouragement to you considering top dressing corn right now, I think we need to break that application in two camps, whether you have the opportunity to apply on your own or not. So, you have a spinner spreader machine or your own spreader where you can get over your own crop in a timely order. Then you have time, and you could apply at your own pace.
Now, for a lot of us who depend on custom application, whether it’s from Sunrise or other vendors across Ohio, there’s a big concern that if we do, if you guys wait till the last minute when a rain is in the forecast and everybody does that, there’s just may not be enough physical time and manpower and equipment to get the application on when you want it.
I would like to encourage you to consider still applying your products right now, because if we don’t, we get in a situation where the corn is going to bolt and either we can’t get over it and make as accurate an application as possible. Because the taller the corn gets, it’s going to essentially interrupt the perfect distribution that’s coming out of the back of a spinner spreader machine.
If that’s not allowing a perfect spread on the width of that machine, then we can encourage some parts of the field that may not get the rate that was prescribed for it. So, keep that in mind. Also with that, you know, if we get wet, we get rain back in the forecast and it stays wet and then the corn keeps growing, we may not get in there in a timely matter and trying to get an airplane to spread urea or a helicopter, or finding someone with a high clearance machine, whether it’s Y-drops dribbling down the center row, that’s never a good day and could be another headache.
So that’s why I bring these points to you, for you to consider on your operation.
Lastly, if you have crop insurance, keep in mind that if you’re protecting your revenue through that investment that you know we’re still going to have a great opportunity for a good crop this year. There’s been very few years in the past minus 1988 was probably one of the worst years if you if you can think back that far. But even in 2012, when we had the most recent really severe drought here in Ohio, we still had corn that yielded, we still had crops that came up and maybe not perform like we want them to, but my point is that there’s very few years where we had a complete failure out there. So, we still want to try to do the best we can for the crop we have out there.
If you have further questions, please reach out to any of us within Sunrise, your ASAs, anybody on the PCT team, including myself we would love to help walk you through your scenario and hopefully help you with some technical advice to address your specific need on your farm.
Take home message is I think we need to keep applying our nitrogen, whether it’s side dress or top dress.
Watch JJ in the Field: Dry Soils and Nitrogen Application. What should I do?
A Burst of Micro-Nutrition with NutraBurstGive your crops a burst of micro-nutrition with NutraBurst. The NutraBurst® product family is made up of individual micronutrients that supply plants needed nutrition throughout the growing season. They promote healthy development in a variety of crops including corn, soybeans, wheat, alfalfa, vegetables and tomatoes. NutraBurst® blends include copper, boron, manganese, zinc, sugar, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and sulfur. We use highly available sources of these micronutrients to formulate our products and double chelate them to ensure efficient plant uptake no matter the soil or water pH.
Boron 7%: double chelated 7% Boron micronutrient.
Boron 10%: double chelated 10% Boron micronutrient.
Copper 5%: double chelated 5% Copper micronutrient.
Manganese 5% II: double chelated 5% Manganese micronutrient.
Micro-N III: early nitrogen fertilization with micronutrients.
MicroMix: a liquid dual-chelated micronutrient fertilizer solution with Boric Acid, Copper, Manganese, and Zinc.
SugarShot AG: foliar applied unpasteurized sugar and added micronutrients including boron and calcium to help with flower and pod retention in soybeans and silk tube elongation during corn pollination.
SugarShot ST: seed applied unpasteurized sugar and added calcium to help build cell walls and stimulate root and leaf development.
SuperBlue: a lower-salt 100% urea based liquid nitrogen fertilizer with sulfur for general use.
Zinc 9%: a double chelated 9% Zinc micronutrient.
Citric Zinc 9%: a liquid micronutrient fertilizer solution with zinc citrate.
Citric Manganese 5%: a liquid micronutrient fertilizer solution with manganese citrate.
These micronutrients blend well with crop protection products and can be applied throughout the growing season, in-furrow or as a top or side dressing. Local PCT experts can help you determine the right product and application method to achieve results. Contact your PCT | Sunrise team to give your crops a burst of micro-nutrition with NutraBurst.
Feed and Nourish Your Crop with FolrFeedFeed and nourish your crop with FolrFeed. Our FolrFeed® product line offers mid-season solutions for correcting nutrient deficiencies that are visible and invisible in corn, soybeans, alfalfa and vegetables. Foliars allow for immediate uptake of nutrients independent of soil pH or other environmental factors.
Corn Foliar LITE II: foliar-fed nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium with double chelated micronutrients (boron, manganese and zinc) and plant growth regulators.
Corn Foliar EXTRA: double the amount of foliar-fed nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium with double chelated micronutrients (boron, manganese and zinc) and plant growth regulators.
Corn Foliar ZAMBI II: a liquid foliar fertilizer with double chelated zinc, manganese, and boron, designed to increase the number of rows around corn ears.
FoliarMix Zn: foliar-fed nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium with double chelated micronutrients and plant growth regulators plus double chelated Zinc.
Soy Foliar BAM II: a liquid foliar fertilizer with double chelated boron and manganese.
Soy Foliar LITE II: foliar-fed nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium with double chelated micronutrients (boron and manganese) and plant growth regulators.
Soy Foliar EXTRA II: double the amount of foliar-fed nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium with double chelated micronutrients (boron and manganese) and plant growth regulators.
SWEET UREA LIQUOR: a liquid plant nutrient mixture of nitrogen and sugar.
Our FolrFeed blends are convenient to use and apply. They can be mixed with other products and are highly compatible with most tank mix partners. Local experts stand behind these products and their performance. Contact the PCT | Sunrise team today for additional information about Folrfeed products and take the next step to feed and nourish your crop with FolrFeed.
Is Black Cutworm Going to be a Problem for Ohio corn growers this year?Welcome back to PCT Shorts, I’m Jonah Johnson – so the question of today is, is black cutworm going to be a problem for Ohio corn growers this year?
So if we monitor a lot of the trapping networks that the universities, such as Purdue, University of Kentucky and Ohio State University have established this year, we’ve noted that there has been an increase in the brood that has been brought up into the northern part of the US.
Adult black cutworm moth
So this insect is not overwinter in Ohio, has to be brought up by the strong winds that we’ve experienced back in April from the south and southwest. Now questions have been asked. We’ve had an awful lot of winds that have moved directly from the north to the south. How can this past still be an issue? So that pest did get moved up here.
The Ohio State network trap has actually shown some moth captures in northern Ohio. So this is something I just want you guys to be aware of and black cutworm could be a problem for Ohio corn growers this year. So if you notice, like in the field behind me here, we had some dense chickweed and overwintering annuals that is very attractive for these moths to come and lay their eggs into.
And so with knowing that we have the potential in the neighborhood and late planting and some some young corn that will be emerging if it hasn’t planted or is to be planted just to keep an eyeball on for this pest, now this pest when the larvae hatches it can cut plants once it gets to those larvae that are in that fourth instar, when that three quarters of an inch long, that’s when they’re quite ravenous when they get bigger and at the typically want to pupate and they’re not as much of a problem.
Black cutworm
Black cutworm larvae with cut corn plant
Now some traits in the corn seeds such as the the stalk boring genetic trait packages can help deter feeding and protect against that. But when you have an escalated number we still get can get plants that can be cut. Now insecticides can be useful for this, but the problem is, is that the residuals are quite short on that.
So for more information on this topic, feel free to inquire here. Watch the video.
Protect and Defend Your Crops with CroprotekProtect and Defend Your Crops with Croprotek. Our Croprotek® lineup of products is designed to defend your crop from insects, weeds, diseases and nitrogen loss at varying growth stages. Croprotek seed treatments are custom blended with options such as fungicide, insecticide, and a dry seed finisher to provide superior protection in soybean production. The treatments include “early season” nutrition to assist in uniform emergence, vigor and health with our corn seed overtreatment.
2,4-D LV6: a Group-4 solventless ester 2,4-D herbicide formulation for agricultural weed control.
Atrazine 4L: a Group-5 Atrazine herbicide for season-long weed control in a 4 pound gallon.
Metribuzin EXT: a Group-5 Metribuzin herbicide for control of certain grasses and broadleaf weeds in an extruded formulation.
MetriChlor Pre: a metribuzin/S-metolachlor herbicide blend for control of certain grasses and broadleaf weeds in potatoes and soybeans.
Corn Seed Overtreatment: a seed overtreatment with early-season micronutrients and other beneficial ingredients via seed-applied treatment “on top” of a previously applied fungicide and insecticide seed treatment.
Soybean Seed Overtreatment: a seed overtreatment with early season micronutrients and other beneficial attributes applied “on top” of a previously applied fungicide and insecticide seed treatment.
Premium ST: a premium custom blend fungicide and insecticide soybean seed treatment.
Standard ST: a custom blend fungicide only soybean seed treatment.
N-Save: an NBPT (N-(nbutyl) thiophosphoric triamide)-based nitrogen stabilizer for use with urea-based nitrogen fertilizers, preventing ammonia volatilization.
N-Save Pro: is an NBPT (N-(nbutyl) thiophosphoric triamide) and DCD (Dicyandiamide) combination nitrogen stabilizer that provides protection against volatility, leaching and denitrification in both below and above ground applications of urea and urea containing fertilizers.
Permeate SC: a proprietary blend of ammonium laurel sulfate (ALS) fortified with organic acids developed to improve downward water movement and increase infiltration into the soil profile.
These products have been specially formulated to defend your crop at multiple growth stages and are compatible with other seed treatments, inoculants, pesticides, fungicides and fertilizers. Contact a PCT | Sunrise representative for more information on how to Protect and Defend Your Crops with PCT Croprotek.
Advance With AdjuTec Adjuvants ProductsAdvance your crop with PCT | Sunrise® AdjuTec adjuvant line of products. PCT | Sunrise AdjuTec adjuvants help your crop protection products for corn, soybeans and wheat be more effective throughout application and the growing season. Advance with these AdjuTec adjuvants products:
AMS Gold Plus: a water conditioning agent combined with ammonium sulfate and surfactant.
AMS Tru: a spray adjuvant with AMS specifically designed for glufosinate herbicide programs.
COC-HL II: highly concentrated blend of emulsifiers and paraffin oil.
DRT Plus: deposition aid/drift control agent that improves the droplet spectrum of spray solutions without altering the viscosity of the solution.
Last Shot® II: a deposition aid formulated with an AMS-Free water conditioner that significantly improves uniform coverage, adhesion and penetration of the active ingredients through waxy or weather-hardened cuticles in adverse conditions early or late in the season for select herbicides.
MSO-HL II: highly concentrated blend of emulsifiers and methylated seed oil.
NIS 90/10: nonionic spray adjuvant.
Zephyr II: an NPE-free oil emulsion deposition and drift management agent specifically designed to suppress off-target drift and increase contact activity and penetration of spray applications. Can be used for ground and/or air application.
Zephyr Prime: a low-use replacement for oil adjuvants and surfactants.
The AdjuTec adjuvant product line up provides the widest range of applications and effective control across various environmental conditions. They prevent drift and promote compatibility with nutritional products. Advance with AdjuTec adjuvants products. Contact a PCT | Sunrise representative for more information on advancing your crop protection.