How To Improve Crop Production With Nutrient Management | Advice From A Plant Physiologist
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Joining us today is plant physiologist Nicolas Cafaro La Menza, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Here, he researches the development of agronomic strategies and tools to enhance agroecosystems management.
Based at a research station in West Central Nebraska, Nicolas works in both research and extension. Nicolas closely studies the nutrients and resource use of crops to enhance plant growth – specifically looking at factors such as sunlight, water, phosphorus, and nitrogen…
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- The importance of maintaining well-balanced nutrient levels in crops.
- How nitrogen levels in soybeans can be altered to achieve higher yields.
- The kinds of crops that react well to nitrogen fixation.
- Why phosphorus is a less mobile nutrient than nitrogen.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My background is in crop and coffee theology. |
| 0:03.3 | So basically we look at the crops and environment |
| 0:06.8 | and how they interact with nutrients and water as well. |
| 0:11.8 | I do a lot of research in the major crops here |
| 0:14.9 | in the state in soybean, corn, something wheat, |
| 0:19.0 | and some in other crops that we are |
| 0:21.5 | seeing if they can fit in the crop and systems |
| 0:23.7 | such as peas, you know, field peas. |
| 0:26.8 | And my focus in general is in the nutrients |
| 0:29.6 | in the crops, whether there are nutrients that are limiting |
| 0:34.1 | to the crop, to growth, or to produce yield. |
| 0:37.3 | And not only yield, sometimes we look at quality |
| 0:40.7 | in the case of soybean, for example, |
| 0:43.2 | there is a lot of focusing quality. |
| 0:44.9 | So how much those nutrients can interact with environment, |
| 0:48.7 | with the water, and how that interaction |
| 0:52.7 | leads to better years or quality. |
| 0:56.6 | Forget frequently asked questions. |
| 0:58.2 | Common sense, common knowledge, or Google. |
| 1:00.9 | How about advice from a real genius? |
| 1:03.1 | 95% of people in any profession are good enough |
| 1:06.1 | to be qualified in license. |
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