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Phosphorus and Potassium Fertilization of Cotton

D. D. Howard, M. E. Essington and C. O. Gwathmey


 
ABSTRACT

Information on phosphorus (P2O5) and potassium (K2O) nutrition for no-till (NT) cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) production is limited. Research was initiated in 1994 and continued through 1999 on a Loring silt loam at the Milan Experiment Station evaluating P2O5 and K2O fertilization rates for conventional- (CT) and NT production systems. Initially, Mehlich I extractable P was low and extractable K was medium. The experimental design was a split plot, main plots were tillage and P2O5-K2O rates sub-plots. The applied P2O5 rates were 0, 40, 80, and 120 lb/acre while the applied K2O rates were 0, 30, and 60 lb/acre. Treatments were replicated four times. The ANOVA showed a tillage-by-P-K rate-by-year interaction effect on yields. Yearly CT and NT yields were increased by P2O5 fertilization. CT yields were increased by broadcasting 40 lb P2O5/acre four of the six years with 80 lb required the other two years. NT yields were increased by 40 lb P2O5/acre three of the six years with 80 and 120 needed the other three years.



Reprinted from Proceedings of the 2000 Beltwide Cotton Conferences pg. 1420
©National Cotton Council, Memphis TN

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