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Final Year of Split Nitrogen Cost-Share

Posted on by Jenell Eck | Posted in UncategorizedTagged

Queenstown, Maryland (January 26, 2023) – Cost-share is available to farmers interested in adding an additional split to their nitrogen application on their 2023 corn crop. The Mid-Atlantic 4R Nutrient Stewardship Association and their agribusiness partners will work directly with producers in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed for the third and final year of this grant opportunity. Farmers who apply an additional split of nitrogen, and leave a control strip with the same total poundage will be eligible for a $15 an acre incentive payment.

Farmers are eligible to enroll 40 acres or 400 acres, as long as a control strip is available in each field. The 4R Alliance requires past crop and yield data as well as 2023 corn yield checks to analyze and compare results. Data collected over the three-year grant will be compiled for a published case study.

In 2021, five Maryland farms participated and had an average yield increase of 19.2 bushels per acre where they use an additional split to their nitrogen applications versus all of it upfront. Of the 11 participating farms in Pennsylvania, farmers saw an average yield increase of 17.6 bushels per acre and a 12 percent increase in nitrogen use efficiency. Check out more results here.

To enroll today and to learn more please contact our team! Eric Rosenbaum for Pennsylvania at 484-788-7263 or by emailing ericrosenbaum@rosetreeconsulting.com. For Delaware and Maryland contact Jenell Eck McHenry at 443-262-6969 or by emailing jenell.mdag@gmail.com. Sign-up is encouraged to be submitted by April 1st.

Funding is provided by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund. The Mid-Atlantic 4R Nutrient Stewardship Alliance was awarded a three-year grant for education, training, and cost-share to increase the implementation of 4R Nutrient Stewardship practices. Learn more about our work online at 4rmidatlantic.com.

Promoting ‘4Rs’ and pushing new ideas

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Drag line manure hoses are something you don’t see much of in Pennsylvania. But Jeff Zimmerman, owner of Agri-Applicators in Lebanon, which specializes in custom manure application, is sold on them, especially when used with a manure injector.

With farmers under pressure to reduce the amount of nitrogen and phosphorus getting into waterways, things such as manure injectors are being looked at to help address environmental regulations while helping keep farmers profitable.

“It’s got to start with keeping farms profitable, keeping them in business,” says Eric Rosenbaum, executive director of the Pennsylvania 4R Alliance, speaking at a recent nutrient stewardship field day in Hershey, Pa. The alliance has partnered with Growmark FS, Bazooka Farmstar and The Nature Conservancy on projects highlighting new technology and better ways to track voluntary best management practices on farms.

4R alliances are partnerships between agribusinesses, farmers, researchers, and local, state and federal agencies that encourage the concept of the “4Rs”: applying the right fertilizer at the right time, the right rate and in the right place.

Read the rest of the article at American Agriculturalist.