Boron In Crops

Alfalfa

Canola

Coffee

Corn

Cotton

Forestry

Oil Palm

Olives

Peanuts

Rice

Small Fruit Crops

Soybeans

Sugarbeet

Tree Fruits & Nut Crops

Vegetables

Soybeans (Glycine max)

Boron fertilization of soybeans has been shown to increase grain yield at many locations in several states. University researchers have found yield increases ranging from 2 to 13 bushels per acre. Soybeans, like all legumes, have a high boron requirement. Boron is necessary for:
  • Stimulation of root growth
  • Increased root nodule development for nitrogen fixation
  • Increased branching and flowering
  • Increased bloom retention
  • Increased pod number
  • Better seed development and grain yield


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