National Cotton Council of America
Beltwide Cotton Conferences
January 8-11, 2008
Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center
Nashville, Tennessee
The Cotton Foundation

Recorded Presentations

Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 4:00 PM

Response of Modern Cotton Cultivars and Soil to Potassium Fertilization on a Representative Silt Loam

M. Mozaffari, N. A. Slaton, and Cindy G. Herron. University of Arkansas, Soil Testing and Research Laboratory, Marianna, AR 72360

The effect of potassium (K) fertilization rate (0, 30, 60,  90, 120 and 150 lb K2O/acre) and cotton cultivar on seedcotton yield, cotton petiole and soil-test K concentrations were evaluated in a 3-year field experiment. Potassium fertilizer treatments were applied to the same plots each year. Seedcotton yields, petiole K concentrations, and soil-test K were not affected (P =0.05) by cultivar or the cultivar by annual K rate interaction in any of the years. Potassium fertilization significantly affected the seedcottonyield only in the second and third year of the study.