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Your chance to learn from the best, Cotton N

Back Paddock Company — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 03:47:01 +0000

Dr Chris Dowling is available to coach you through the 2024-2025 cotton season with Back Paddock’s Cotton N Tracker program. Join Chris for a “Farm Walk & Shed Talk” to understand collection techniques and data generated from tissue & petiole testing. Join the “Cotton N Tracker” Program and examine your data throughout the season, for […]

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Contrasting scenarios for latest northern and southern irrigated cotton crop N status

Chris Dowling — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 07:45:57 +0000

Two very different scenarios for the northern and southern irrigated cotton crop N status compared to last season are emerging. The irrigated cotton crops in northern and southern growing regions have progressed into flowering stages when N management can set up a smooth or problematic season finish. If not enough N, you will be battling […]

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Critical nutrient level for cotton plant tissue declines over time.

Chris Dowling — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 02:30:11 +0000

The critical level in the youngest mature leaf and its petiole typically decreases for N and K as the cotton plant progresses through its phenological stages.

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How long does an N application take to show up in petiole nitrate-N?

Chris Dowling — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 07:00:00 +0000

The nitrification of urea applied in summer is generally not limited by soil temperature or a lack of soil microbial population. This leaves soil water as the main factor limiting its conversion to nitrate-N. Therefore, fertiliser N availability is related to two factors. Too dry for the soil biology to be active in the application […]

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Canopy temperature helps avoid stressed crops at sampling.

Chris Dowling — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 06:02:20 +0000

One of the variables that can significantly affect the accuracy of plant tissue analysis in cotton is plant stress, particularly plant water stress. Currently, this is avoided by limiting sampling to a particular day in the irrigation cycle or after rain and time of day and with some reference to soil moisture probe readings. With […]

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Timing the use of nitrification inhibitor treated N fertilisers in-crop in irrigated cotton

Chris Dowling — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 23:32:44 +0000

The use of efficiency enhancement additives (EEF) in nitrogen fertiliser products in irrigated cotton seems to be on the rise as we experience their benefits, successful use cases and measure successes. EEF technology used in cotton most frequently includes ammonia volatilisation inhibitors, nitrification inhibitors and a combination of both in a single product. While research […]

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Why test petioles for nitrate-N?

Chris Dowling — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 05:18:46 +0000

Some advisers have asked, “why have BPC continued to use petiole nitrate-N” in our in-crop cotton N management service? My answers are sometimes a bit long-winded and technical, but the short answer is that “we haven’t been able to find a technology that is able to replicate the responsiveness of tracking nitrate-N from the soil […]

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It’s go time for cotton sampling!

Chris Dowling — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 05:12:59 +0000

The first leaf and petiole samples from Moree have been tested through the BPC Cotton Plant Tissue system. Early results are posing questions about the effect of preplant N management on starting levels of plant tissue N, compared to previous seasons and established critical ranges. Of particular interest is the effect of nitrification inhibitors and […]

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Cotton Plant Tissue

Brett Pollard — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 05:28:49 +0000

Lab quality for Cotton Plant Petiole Testing Back Paddock Company’s commitment to excellence in the management of cotton nutrition has already started this season by ensuring our laboratory service providers can get the same result for the same samples. This means we can aggregate data from all labs to provide district comparisons and unique industry-wide […]

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