MicroStart 60 Plots
By Randy Simonson
Technical Services Manager
MicroStart 60 is pelletized, composted chicken manure with an analysis of 3-3-3 with micronutrients and is 60%
organic matter. It is produced by Perdue/AgriRecyle (actually the chickens produce it) and sold through
TSM®. Our main purpose was to see what happens when we apply
the manure according to different TSM® lbs-to-balance levels. We
used three pounds-to-balance levels for phosphorus: +100, +200 and +300.
We had one treatment (TSM® Max) where we applied enough manure to supply all the crop's
nitrogen need until the P1 test gets to 300 lbs/acre, although we are not there yet. We also have regular
TSM®, University of Illinois and Tri-State treatments with and without
185 lbs MicroStart 60/acre in the corn and 125 lbs MicroStart 60/acre in the soybeans. These treatments
with MicroStart 60 are designated MM treatments.
The yields correlate very well with the amount of MicroStart 60. The more MicroStart 60 that was applied,
the higher the yield. The only places this did not hold true was TSM® +300
which yielded slightly lower than TSM® + 200, and
TSM® Max in one corn hybrid, and
TSM® +300 in soybeans which again was slightly lower than
TSM® +200.
2002 TSM Research Farm
MicroStart 60 Test Plots
Corn
| Treatments | MicroStart 60 | K-9211 | K-9910 | Mean |
| | (lbs/acre) | (bu/acre) | (bu/acre) | bu/acre) |
| TSM E | 0 | 159 | 152 | 155 |
| TSM MM | 185 | 157 | 153 | 155 |
| TSM Max | 7200 | 172 | 173 | 173 |
| TSM +100 | 5000 | 157 | 171 | 164 |
| TSM +200 | 6300 | 173 | 170 | 171 |
| TSM +300 | 9100 | 162 | 175 | 169 |
| U of IL | 0 | 152 | 151 | 151 |
| U of IL MM | 185 | 154 | 152 | 153 |
| Tri-State | 0 | 149 | 150 | 149 |
| Tri-State MM | 185 | 155 | 153 | 154 |
Soybeans
| Treatments | MicroStart 60 | K-377 RR |
| (lbs/acre) | (bu/acre) |
| TSM E | 0 | 64 |
| TSM MM | 125 | 63 |
| TSM Max | 9200 | 72 |
| TSM +100 | 3500 | 70 |
| TSM +200 | 5200 | 71 |
| TSM +300 | 6300 | 68 |
| U of IL | 0 | 62 |
| U of IL MM | 125 | 60 |
| Tri-State | 0 | 63 |
| Tri-State MM | 125 | 59 |
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January 2003 Newsletter