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Inoculants by Crop - JumpStart - Dry Bean

JumpStart, the phosphate inoculant, contains the naturally occurring soil fungus Penicillium bilaii, discovered by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. It colonizes plant roots and makes the ‘fixed’ mineral forms of less available soil phosphate immediately available for crop use.

JumpStart promotes greater phosphate use efficiency, which results in quick emergence, early vigour, greater stress tolerance, and more even maturity. JumpStart delivers a safe method of supplying phosphate to growing plants and reduces the need to seed-place high rates of fertilizer phosphate with sensitive seed like dry beans, soybeans, canola, peas and lentil.

Dry beans are very sensitive to seed-placed fertilizer so any added fertilizer must be banded or broadcast.  Phosphate fertilizer is immobile in the soil meaning roots must grow to the fertilizer in order to have access to it.

JumpStart can supply phosphate to the plant by making residual phosphate present in the soil, immediately available for plant uptake.  This means the crop does not have to wait until it grows to the fertilizer band to have access to phosphate.  JumpStart can make the equivalent of 10-15 lbs/ac of P2O5 available to the crop.

310 trials over the 18 years prove the performance of JumpStart on a wide variety of crops.

Summary Number
of Demos
Yield Differences
 Net Return¹
$/acre
bu/ac
% of Control
Corn 39
9.0
105%
 $12.27²
Wheat 142
1.9
105%
 $3.89
Winter Wheat 10
5.0
112%
 $14.52
Canola 117
1.9
107%
 $5.64
Pea/Lentil 41
3.2
110%
 $8.62
Grand Total3 310
2.1
107%
 $5.524
Agronomic Practices  
 
Conventional seeded 68
1.7
106%
 $4.09
No till 90
1.5
104%
 $2.92
P fertilizer placement < 11/2 " from seed 130
1.6
105%
 $4.19
P fertilizer placement > 11/2 " from seed 57
2.0
106%
 $5.18
More P fertilizer on control5 59
1.8
106%
 $7.02
No fertilizer differences 251
2.2
107%
 $5.21

¹Net returns were calculated using 5 year average (2000-2004) US commodity prices for crops and fertilizer less the 2006 suggested retail price for JumpStart.
²Average yield response applied to a target yield of 150 bu/ac to calculate net return/acre on corn.
3Total and average of wheat, winter wheat, canola and pea/lentil trials.
495% confidence limit is $1.31 per acre. This means the net return for all crops will range between $4.20 and $8.63 per acre 19 times out of 20.
5Average P fertilizer difference is 15.1 lbs P2O5 per acre on the no JumpStart control strips.

JumpStart Application
JumpStart is sold as a wettable powder that is mixed into water and applied to the seed prior to seeding.

JumpStart Application Rates for Dry Bean

 
JumpStart 2.0 oz
JumpStart 14 oz
Amount of seed treated
40 bu
2,400 lb
200 bu
12,000 lb
Recommended water volume
3.9 US quarts
20 US quarts

Use with pinto, great northern, balck, navy , kidney, red and pink bean.

See the Inoculant Application Methods section for more information.

MultiAction Fertility
JumpStart comes premixed with a rhizobia strain for nitrogen fixation in dry beans.  See the section on TagTeam dry bean for more information.

For more information on the unique features of JumpStart click on JumpStart.