The First Foliar Feeding of Soybean

The first foliar feeding of soybean

Soybean yield depends on balanced mineral nutrition and reliable protection from weeds and diseases. We remind you about using special fertilizers in the technology of growing this important crop.

Thanks to symbiosis with nodule bacteria, nitrogen fixation begins at the stage of two trifoliate leaves and continues throughout the whole growing season. This allows plants to obtain nitrogen from the atmosphere to form their own yield and leave part of it in the soil for the next crop.

The nitrogen assimilation process depends largely on the supply of molybdenum, since this element is a component of the enzymes responsible for the conversion of nitrogen forms in the plant. Therefore it is important that soybean plants get enough molybdenum during the nitrogen fixation period.

Molybdenum deficiency most often appears on light soils and on acidified varieties of gray forest soils and chernozems. To solve this problem ECOORGANIC suggests using the microfertilizer ECOLINE Molybdenum (Complex) at 0.5–1.0 l/ha for foliar feeding of legumes from the 2-true-leaf stage to budding.

In the same period it is important to stimulate root system growth and raise plant resistance to diseases by adding the fertilizer ECOLINE Phosphite (K) at 1.0–1.5 l/ha to the tank mixture.