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 |
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bu/ac |
% of Control |
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| 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 |
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| Amount of seed treated | 40 bu |
2,400 lb |
200 bu |
12,000 lb |
| Recommended water volume | 3.9 US quarts |
20 US quarts |
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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.
