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Nitrogen from T-Storms

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Topic: Nitrogen from T-Storms

Posted By: AC7060IL
Subject: Nitrogen from T-Storms
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2022 at 3:08pm

I just got our coop's nitrogen statement - $591/ton for 28%N for our 2022 crop. I did not order as much nitrogen this year.

Ever notice how your lawn "greens-up" after a rain, especially a T-storm rain? Ever wonder about the US agriculture corn crop yields which have dramatically increased from past decades?? It seems T-storm intensity have increased? Perhaps an ocassional 5-6+ inch rain is not uncommon.

Here's a 2021 weblink of a pretty news girl talking about how it happens (there's a 30second commerical at the beginning - give it time).

http://www.actionnews5.com/2021/05/28/breakdown-why-lightning-is-good-agriculture/" rel="nofollow - http://www.actionnews5.com/2021/05/28/breakdown-why-lightning-is-good-agriculture/

Here's a 2013 NOVA 5 minute film about NASA's Trim Satelite that monitor's lightning strikes around the globe each day. Some 40 lightning stirkes/second, 40,000 T-storm clouds/day, 3.4+ million lightning strikes/day, 13 billion tons of Nitrate per day around the globe. I realize Nitrate is not yet coverted by soil microbes, but still... at today's N prices that computes to $7,683,000,000 in the form of free nitrogen.

http://thinktv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nves.sci.earth.nitrate/lightning-produces-nitrates/" rel="nofollow - http://thinktv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nves.sci.earth.nitrate/lightning-produces-nitrates/

A 2020 Mississippi River basin study

http://dailyyonder.com/heavy-storms-can-contribute-a-big-chunk-of-nitrogen-pollution-from-midwest-farms/2020/12/21/" rel="nofollow - http://dailyyonder.com/heavy-storms-can-contribute-a-big-chunk-of-nitrogen-pollution-from-midwest-farms/2020/12/21/

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Posted By: dee_veloper
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2022 at 3:59pm

I never knew about the lightning effect..... learned something new today.

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Posted By: John m
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2022 at 4:49pm

And did you ever notice the difference in the air after a rain/lightening storm. Easier breathing and fresh. Must ozinate the air.

Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2022 at 5:04pm

All electrical arcs create a level of Ozone, Lightning is not excluded. The Nitrate levels are really weak but exist, otherwise could kill livestock(Nitrate Poisoning is well known).

Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2022 at 5:11pm

That is true of the lightning and thunder-- its all so much greener after the storms

Posted By: GSTROM99
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2022 at 2:56pm

I've noticed that, for years. Last nights storms proved it again. Grass was still mostly brown yesterday. Greening up today, noticeably.

My dog has learned that lightning causes thunder, which he hates. So he now gets real nervous, when the lightning starts.