Claim · model-written summary
Foliar fertilizer treatments did not significantly distinguish soybean grain composition.
- Taxon
- Soybean
Glycine maxe0 - Treatment
- foliar fertilizer treatmentse0
- Outcome
- compositione0
- Direction
- not amonge0
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Verbatim
e0“Soybean grain yield and composition differed among sites but not among foliar fertilizer treatments.”
Title
Foliar fertilizers rarely increase yield in United States soybean
Emma G. Matcham; R. Atwell Vann; Laura E. Lindsey; et al. Agronomy Journal 2021. doi:10.1002/agj2.20889
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Association Soybean grain yield differed among trial sites.
- Association Soybean grain composition differed among trial sites.
- Intervention effect Foliar fertilizer treatments did not significantly distinguish soybean grain yield.
- Observation Prophylactic foliar fertilization is likely to reduce soybean production profitability.
- Recommendation The authors advise against these foliar fertilizers without visible nutrient deficiency.