 Welcome to the 2021 Virtual Nutrient Management Field Day. We are here with Dr. Rishi Prasad with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System at Wiregrass Research Extension Center in Hedlund, Alabama. We are looking into the effect of the poultry litter application as a pre-planned application and the side-dress application of urea at five different nitrogen rates. We all know that if we put too much of nitrogen, the crop stays in vegetative phase for a longer time period and also it has several negative consequences in the overall crop growth and yield at the end of the season. Poultry litter is nutrient-rich. It can supply nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium along with other micronutrients and many growers in the state do apply litter when it comes to cotton production. Now, if somebody is applying two tons of litter, that two tons of litter can apply around 120 units of potential nitrogen but not all 120 units of nitrogen is available at the same time. Only a fraction of it or a percentage of it is available. So here we are looking at if a producer applies two tons of chicken litter pre-planned to the cotton, how much nitrogen they can apply as a side-dress application at the first score stage and potentially prevent this excessive vegetative or a prolonged vegetative stage in cotton plants and their negative consequences. So we have five different nitrogen rates that we are going to put as a side-dress application at the first score stage. We hope to see you for the Virtual Field Day at Wiregrass on Friday, August 20th.