“So say 2022, where we had good starting soil water, a very good timing of the break, a very positive forecast, then Yield Profit was really gung-ho and put on by, I think it was 150 kilograms of nitrogen Curyo, which is, well, very few farmers are going to do that commercially, that's over 300 kilo's per hectare of urea, whereas the nitrogen bank treatment tends to only put on about 60, or thereabouts, kilograms per hectare of nitrogen, so about 130 kilos of urea, pretty much year in, year out, thus far as, as what it's done.

“So it kind of smooths your input and it puts the expenditure after good years."

In the sixth episode of our eight-part Planning for Profit series we caught up with Professor James Hunt who shared his nitrogen planning and decision making research and how it may help you plan your nitrogen requirements this season.

Professor James Hunt holds the William Farrer Lectureship in Agronomy at the University of Melbourne. He is an agronomist and crop physiologist specialising in water limited productivity of dry-land cropping and mixed farming systems. His research focuses on using combinations of management and genetics to increase productivity and profitability of grain-based farming systems. Prior to joining the University of Melbourne, he worked for La Trobe University for six years, CSIRO for seven years and the Birchip Cropping Group for five years. He has received awards for research excellence including the GRDC Seed of Light and the outcomes of his research have been widely adopted by grain growers across south eastern Australia.

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