Drought conditions can lock up potassium in the soil keeping it from reaching crops. Reid Abbott, sales agronomist for the Great Plains with AgroLiquid, tells Brownfield growers can take steps to protect their yields.
“Making sure we have that adequate potassium in the soil – you know, pre-season, leading up to that planting – is going to certainly be important but, certainly, in season. There’s plenty of potassium products out there available for growers to look at whether that be a foliar application or a maybe even a side-dress application of nitrogen.”
He says drought stress is very hard for plants to overcome when potassium gets locked up in clay layers of soil and roots can no longer take it up as quickly.
