Interest in Plant Performance Enhancing Microbes Rising with Fertilizer Prices
Good morning.
A bracing article out of the Business Section in today's paper on rising grower interest in the use of microbes as an alternative to delivering plant nutrients which as we all know are rising a lot in price (sorry, paywall):
Just like some of the farmers in the article, I'm skeptical and certainly would not go all in on this technology. Berries are a very high value crop and taking a risk on shorting the crop on an essential nutrient like N, P or K to save a couple of bucks per acre is not a strategy of farming success.
My own experience with these couples very well with the professor from Purdue University in recommending that "farmers should consider testing the products themselves before purchasing in bulk".