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TEN-The Hrppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon. Thursday. August 21. 1980 1980 Morrow County Rodeo Schedule nitrogen check can save money FRIDAY, AUGUST 22 DANCE, PAVILLION. PARADE. P.m. KODEO improving spring wheat yiclds.Oregon State Univer sity researchers here In the state's high desert country 1:30 p.m.-RODEO. UANW. t'AVIlXION. 7:00 p.m. morrow Saturday, august 23 s.-oo p.m. Episcopal sunday, august 24 COUNTY RODEO. Church Barbeque, Episcopal 9:30 p.m. RODEO ..10:00 a.m. MAIN STREET Church. 1:30 p.m. RODEO. A yearly check of the soil's nitrogen level can save money unci Is a Riant step toward Stan in lynthetic itar sap phires and rubies appear (harper than natural start. X oqchh rn n Whirlpool WASHERS & DRYERS '339 "3$9 F0UCY Avallabte on many Mijor Appliances Dryer features large drum, 3 cycles, 3 temperatures and Custom Dry Control. 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' James, along with Malcolm Johnson, superintendent of the Central Oregon station, Is In the final stage ot a four-year , study of the best planting , techniques and growing cond itions for relatively new, "high-yielding varieties of spring wheat popular in the area, i According to the research ers, the optimum nitrogen level for newer spring wheat varieties such as Fieldwin, In most of central Oregon's Irrigated wheatland is 150 to 200 pounds per acre when the wheat is planted on March "10-the planting date they' singled out as best. . James recalls a field trial , that illustrated how soil test ing helps cut costs and improve yields. In the trial, he and Johnson found a nitrogen level (also called nitrate level) of 30 pounds per acre in the test field. They added 160 pounds of nitrogen per acre and got a good yield of about M bushels per acre. The next March, they app lied half as much nitrogen-80 pounds per acre-and ff similar good yield, thank! '-io nitrogen accumulated in the soil from the previous year. "If a person just blanketed 160 pounds per acre he would waste a lot of fertilizer," said Jams, adding that nitrogen fertilizer costs about 28 cents a pound. "Sometimes he might hit it just right and get good yields," he continued. "At other times he might even reduce the yield." Too much nitrogen can cut yield's, James said, by pro ducing taller plants with broader leaves and smaller kernels. Excess nitrogen in the null also can encourage "lodging." when plants fall to one side, he said. Johnson pointed out that nitrogen testing is not new, Just neglected by some. "They started over in the Columbia Basin 15 or 20 years ago and over there they've got It down to a fine art," he said, explaining that the tests are much more useful in central and eastern Oregon, where the soil contains little organic matter and nitrogen levels fluctuate less in western Oregon. "But I tell you," he contin ued, "as long as they've had soil tests some farmers haven't used them like they should. You can go out right around here and find soils with no chance of a good crop (because of the low nitrogen level)." The researcher said tests for levels of nitrogen and other key substances, such as phos phorus and potassium, should be taken within two or three weeks of planting. The tests can be arranged through county Extension Service offices around the state and cost "probably less than $10" when done by the OSU campus Soil Testing Laboratory or commercial testing laboratories, Johnson said. The Redmond researchers said they plan to study the value of nitrogen testing to winter wheat production (where wheat is planted in the full and lies dormant through the winter). But they said the influence of erratic winter weather on the soil is a "formidable foe" of utilizing such tests.
