Nitrogen is critical to good organic corn yields, but making sure adequate nitrogen is available when the corn needs it can be tricky.

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Success with Organic Grains: Nitrogen Management in Organic Corn

The video opens to a title slide then moves to show logos from each of the sponsors.

The video changes to ears of corn in a pile and then to ears on the stalk.

The video continues to a mound of soil to slides stating the importance of soil quality.

The video moves to a tractor pulling a plow over a field to a slide stating the phases of soil management to a field of young grain corn to a hand digging into and handling the soil to a freshly tilled field to slides stating the building and maintenance of soil.

The video changes to a compost screener near a large pile of compost to a pile of pelleted poultry litter to slides stating the sources of nitrogen to a close-up of organic matter to a chisel plow being pulled through a field to a freshly tilled field to fresh compost applied to the soil to a field of crimson clover flowers to mound of poultry litter fertilizer to a close-up of dark organic material.

The video continues to a tractor pulling a tandem-harrow across a field to slides stating the building phases of a soil to a close-up of a tandem-harrow being pulled across a field to a pile of animal manure to a mound of poultry litter fertilizer to a split screen of bagged organic fertilizer and a shovel in a mound of animal manure to a pond with a green water due to algae bloom to a tractor pulling a tandem-harrow across a field to a mound of pelletized poultry litter to a close-up of the pelletized animal by-products to a close-up of a hand in a bag of blood meal to close-up of feather meal in a bag to a close-up of pelletized poultry litter on the soil surface of an untilled field to a tractor pulling a spreader across the field to mounds of compost to a close-up of the compost to a photo of the purple flowers of hairy-vetch – a legume to a field of crimson clover flowers.

The video moves to a field of cereal rye cover crop to a slide stating cover crop management to a field of hairy-vetch biomass to a tractor rolling, crimping and then planting into the hairy vetch cover crop to a close-up of a clump of soil with legume roots on a shovel and a finger pointing to the nodules on the roots where rhizobia bacteria fix nitrogen to a tractor pulling a flail mower across a field of hairy vetch cover crop to a split screen of crimson clover flowers and hairy vetch flowers to a field of white flowers of Austrian winter peas to a tractor pulling a flail mower across a field to Dr. Steven Mirsky talking to a close-up of dark soil to a close-up of a tandem-harrow tilling soil to a spader being pulled over the field to a flail mower being pulled over a field to a field showing three stages of plowing to a close-up of broken soil to a field of cereal rye cover crop.

The video changes to Dr. Mirsky talking to a field of legume cover crops back to Dr. Mirsky talking to a field of cereal rye cover crop to a tractor pulling a flail mower across the field to a close-up of a tandem-harrow to the tandem-harrow being pulled across the field to a person walking through a corn field to a hand bouncing a ball of dirt in their hand until it is broken apart by the fingers to a hand picking up a clod of dirt and breaking it apart with their hand to a hand picking up a handful of dry soil and then letting it slide from their hand.

The video continues to a tractor pulling a planter across the field to a slide stating the methods of split nitrogen.

The video moves to a person looking closely at the corn plants in a row crop field to a summary slide to a slide stating resources.

Credits roll.

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College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
UGA Extension
Crop & Soil Sciences Department