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Influence of Molybdenum on Growth and Composition of Alfalfa and Distribution of Molybdenum in a Cecil-Lloyd Soil¹

ABSTRACT

Sodium molybdate was applied annually at a rate of 8 ounces per acre to alfalfa receiving 500 and 4000 pounds limestone. Beginning in the fall of the second year of growth, the low lime treatment plus molybdenum yield was about the same as the high lime treatment. After 3 years, alfalfa on the high lime treatment responded to molybdenum. Liming increased the molybdenum content of alfalfa in 1956 but did not consistently do so in 1959. The molybdenum content of alfalfa was not excessive after six applications. Molybdenum did not move downward in the Cecil-Lloyd soil profile.

¹ Contribution from the Department of Agronomy, University of Georgia, Athens. Approved by the Director of the College Experiment Station as Journal Paper No. 121. Presented before Div. IV, Soil Science Society of America, Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 16, 1959.

² Professor and Associate Professor of Agronomy, respectively. Financial assistance from the Climax Molybdenum Company, New York, N. Y., is gratefully acknowledged.

Received for publication January 19, 1960. Accepted for publication March 3, 1960.