DIXON – The Northwest Illinois Agronomy Summit will take place on Jan. 29, at the Highland Community College Student Conference Center, 2998 W. Pearl City Road in Freeport.
The University of Illinois Extension is hosting the event, which will take place from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and discuss crop and soil management topics, including a discussion on optimizing corn response to nitrogen through phosphorus and potassium management from Dr. John Jones, Assistant Professor of Agronomy and Soil Fertility Extension Specialist in the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois.
Jones will explain how controllable and uncontrollable factors influence soil and fertilizer nitrogen use by corn plants, and how managing phosphorus and potassium levels in the soil can help corn plants use nitrogen more efficiently, boost crop yields and improve economic returns in corn-soybean rotations…