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South Central MN | 1. Running roughly 32 GPA which adds up to about 65-34-0-13 as applied, up here in a more northern area of the corn belt it just works better especially to get a decent shot of N on at planting.
2. All dry might be cheaper, but planter can only do liquid, dry P and K isn't a big issue since I like to have that applied in the fall, however topdress urea was uneven when the co-op was doing it so went to a program I have total control of. Corn gets off to a good start "here" with extra groceries beside the furrow. The rest of the N gets applied with a liquid sidedress bar that I own.
3. Yetter in-between setup set shallow on one side of the row, do plan on making it dual sided eventually but $$ is a factor for now. I do run a carbon based N stabilizer which I feel helps.
4. Would love to have a dry 2X2 setup on the planter but can't do that due to the design of it. Would also need a way to tender dry fertilizer as well. Dry would usually be more cost efficient, and be able to run K in the mix as well. "Here" we don't have any decent liquid K options available.
Most of the acres I run were mined at some point so having a good shot of fertility up front helps, gets the crop off to a bit of a better start. | |
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Liquid on board with planter. 4 questions.
