How To Improve Crop Production With Nutrient Management | Advice From A Plant Physiologist
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 33 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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| 0:00.0 | Forget frequently asked questions. |
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| 0:18.4 | Richard Jacobs has made it his life's mission to find them for you. |
| 0:22.5 | He hunts down and interviews geniuses in every field, sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic diets, and more. |
| 0:28.9 | Here come the geniuses. |
| 0:30.6 | This is the Finding Genius podcast with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:37.6 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast, now part of the Finding |
| 0:41.8 | Genius Foundation. |
| 0:43.1 | I have Nicholas Caffaro Lamenza. |
| 0:45.2 | He's an assistant professor in plant physiology, weeds, and production systems. |
| 0:49.8 | He's at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. |
| 0:52.2 | So we're going to talk about nutrient dynamics and what's |
| 0:54.7 | called echo physiology. So thanks for coming, Nicholas. How you doing? Thank you, Rich. Thanks for inviting |
| 1:00.7 | me today and I am doing well. I am, as you say, at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. I am based |
| 1:08.2 | in a research station in West Central Nebraska. So it's West Central Research Extension and Education Center, but I am based in a research station in West Central Nebraska. |
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