TSM® January 2005 Newsletter | News Home |      | TSM® Home |      Newsletter in PDF Format   TSM® Micro-Boost Trials, 2004         By Randy Simonson, Ph. D. Other Articles in This Issue: TSM®Research Farm Fertility Trials, 2004 Corn/Soybeans Variety Trials, 2004 2005: Time to Look Forward Last year we came out with a new product called TSM® Micro-Boost.  It is a liquid product for agricultural crops and is fashioned after our dry TSM® Pre-Mix and TSM® Base-Mix.  Over the last several years we have tested different liquid products with different combinations of nutrients before coming up with the analysis in TSM® Micro-Boost. Micro-Boost has performed well on the TSM® Research Farm the past two years with the results shown below.  The results in 2003 were better than in 2004, although both years showed yield increases for corn and soybeans.  In 2004, we tried a lower rate of 1 qt Micro-Boost Pre-Mix/acre.  This rate actually did better than the 2 qt/acre rate in corn, however, in soybeans the 2 qt/acre rate did the best.  Thus, we are recommending 2 qts Micro-Boost Pre-Mix/acre for soybeans and 1 to 2 qts/acre for corn. Many of the products added to Roundup® contain sulfur, or if you have some other sulfur source, you can use Micro-Boost Base-Mix at half the MicroBoost Pre-Mix rate of 1 qt/acre for soybeans and 0.5 to 1 qt/acre for corn.  The Micro-Boost Pre-Mix is half ammonium sulfate, thus if you are adding sulfur already you can use the Micro-Boost Base-Mix at the lower rate. 2004 TSM® Micro-Boost Trials at the TSM® Research Farm Corn TSM® Micro-Boost Pre-Mix 1 qt/A 2 qts/A Check Pre-Emerge bu/A 171 161 165  Post Emerge  bu/A 172 165 166 Mean bu/A 172 163 166 Soybeans TSM® Micro-Boost Pre-Mix 1 qt/A 2 qts/A Check Pre-Emerge bu/A 65.3 65.9 63.3  Post Emerge  bu/A 62.9 65.1 64.4 Mean bu/A 64.1 65.5 63.9 ___________________________________________________ 2003 TSM® Micro-Boost Trials at the TSM® Research Farm Corn TSM® Micro-Boost Pre-Mix 2 qt/A 4 qts/A Check Pre-Emerge bu/A 189 189 175  Post Emerge  bu/A 191 188 178 Mean bu/A 190 189 176 Soybeans TSM® Micro-Boost Pre-Mix 2 qt/A 4 qts/A Check Pre-Emerge bu/A 51.6 50.4 46.5  Post  bu/A 45.9 45.3 40.9 Mean bu/A 48.8 47.9 43.7 ___________________________________________________ 2003 and 2004 TSM® Micro-Boost Trial Averages at the TSM® Research Farm Corn Treatment TSM® Micro-Boost Check Pre-Emerge bu/A 180 170  Post Emerge  bu/A 182 172 Mean bu/A 181 171 Soybeans Treatment TSM® Micro-Boost Check Pre-Emerge bu/A 58.8 54.9  Post  bu/A 55.5 52.7 Mean bu/A 57.2 53.7 ___________________________________________________       ©  TSM Services, Inc. Back to Top