Iowa Agri-News, February 24, 2014, Vol. 14, no. 6

Crop and livestock summaries for the state of Iowa, produced by the Iowa Department of Agriculture. Previously Agri-News

Lottery Action, Vol. 20, No. 5, March 24-April 6, 2014

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Iowa Lottery Action, Vo. 20, No. 3 Feb. 24 - March 9, 2014

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Relationship between potassium fertilization and panicle blast severity in upland rice

The influence of K2O (0, 40, 80, 120 kg ha-1) at varying rates of N application (0, 30, 60 kg ha-1) at planting, on panicle blast (Pyricularia grisea (Cooke) Sacc.) was studied in a field experiment conducted during three consecutive years with the upland rice cultivar Douradão. Panicle blast severity decreased with increasing rates of potassium in the absence of nitrogen (N0). The relationship between panicle blast and K rates was quadratic at 30 kg ha-1 of nitrogen. Significant response to K fertilization was not obtained at 60 kg ha-1 of nitrogen in relation to panicle blast severity.

Iowa Lottery Action, Vol. 19, No. 5, March 11-24, 2013

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Iowa Lottery Action, Vol. 18, No. 18, Sept. 24-Oct. 7, 2012

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Iowa Lottery Action, Vol. 18, #21, Oct. 24-Nov. 6, 2011

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Effect of phosphorus and potassium on yield and on agronomical characteristics of cotton

With the objective of studying the effect of increasing phosphorus and potassium doses on the agronomical and technological characteristics of the cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.), cultivar IAC 20, an experiment was carried out during 1994/95 on a Red-Dark Latossol at the Embrapa-Centro de Pesquisa Agropecuária do Oeste (CPAO) in Ponta Porã, MS, Brazil. A randomized bloch design was used in a 3 x 5 factorial arrangement with four replications. The doses were 30, 60 and 90 kg ha-1 of P2O5, applied as triple superphosphate, and 0, 30, 60, 90 and 120 kg ha-1 of K2O as KCl. The K2O doses used had a significant influence on the seed cotton yield, plant height and weight of 100 seeds and of bolls.

Fiscal Update, March 24, 2014

The Fiscal Division newsletter, published weekly during session and periodically during the interim.

EFEITO DO DESMAME PRECOCE NA CARCAÇA DE NOVILHOS TERMINADOS EM PASTAGEM E ABATIDOS AOS 24 MESES

Foram comparadas as características de carcaça de novilhos cruza Charolês x Nelore, desmamados aos 90 (T90) ou 210 (T210) dias. Utilizaram-se 63 terneiros, castrados, os quais foram terminados em pastagem cultivada de Avena strigosa + Lolium multiflorum + Trifolium vesiculosum e abatidos aos 24 meses de idade. Não houve diferença significativa em relação às características peso de fazenda (T90=437 kg e T210=467 kg), rendimento de carcaça quente (T90=53,33% e T210=52,21%), peso de carcaça quente (T90=233 kg e T210=244 kg) e peso de carcaça fria (T90=226 kg e T210=238 kg). As carcaças dos dois tratamentos apresentaram conformação semelhante (T90=10,8 pontos e T210=11,0 pontos). Também as porcentagens de dianteiro, costilhar e traseiro não diferiram significativamente entre os dois tratamentos, assim como as variáveis comprimento de carcaça, comprimento de perna, comprimento de braço, perímetro de braço e espessura de coxão. A espessura de gordura de cobertura não diferiu significativamente entre os dois grupos de carcaças (T90=2,56 mm e T210=2,27 mm). Os resultados mostraram que o desmame precoce aos 90 dias não afeta as características de carcaça de novilhos abatidos aos 24 meses de idade, desde que as condições de alimentação durante o período de recria e terminação tenham sido adequadas.

Fruit size, mineral composition and quality of trickle-irrigated tomatoes as affected by potassium rates

An experiment was conducted to determine the fruit size, mineral composition and quality of trickle-irrigated tomatoes as affected by potassium fertilizer rates. Six potassium (K) rates were applied as KCl, corresponding to 0, 48.4, 118.6, 188.8, 259.0 and 399.4 kg ha-1, with four replicates, following a randomized block design. Quadratic responses to K rates were observed for double extra large (diameter > 60 mm), extra large (56 to 60 mm) and large (52 to 56 mm) fruit yields. Maximum yields of these classes were achieved with K rates of 116, 190 and 233 kg ha-1, respectively. Fruit dry matter, phosphorus, sulfur and magnesium contents were not affected by K rates, but nitrate and K contents showed significant increments as K rates were increased. Vitamin C, total soluble solids, lycopene and beta-carotene contents in the fruits were not affected by K rates. Increments in the K rate lowered the fruit pH and increased total acids content.

Tomato yield and potassium concentrations in soil and in plant petioles as affected by potassium fertirrigation

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) cv. Santa Clara was grown on a silt clay soil with 46 mg dm-3 Mehlich 1 extractable K, to evaluate the effects of trickle-applied K rates on fruit yield and to establish K critical concentrations in soil and in plant petioles. Six potassium rates (0, 48, 119, 189, 259 and 400 kg ha-1 K) were applied in a randomized complete block design with four replications. Soil and plant K critical levels were determined at two plant growth stages (at the beginning of the second and fourth cluster flowering). Total, marketable and weighted yields increased with K rates, reaching their maximum of 86.4, 73.4, and 54.9 ton ha-1 at 198, 194, and 125 kg ha-1 K , respectively. At the first soil sampling date K critical concentrations in the soil associated with K rates for maximum marketable and weighted yields were 92 and 68 mg dm-3, respectively. Potassium critical concentrations in the dry matter of the petioles sampled by the beginning of the second and fourth cluster flowering time, associated with maximum weighted yield, were 10.30 and 7.30 dag kg-1, respectively.