| gw321 - 12/14/2025 18:42
Is there a difference between melted urea and dry urea when it comes to needing a rain to incorporate it?
My only opinion is that because you cannot get a high concentration of N like UAN has, there is a lot more water with it. We were able to get it the concentration to 14-0-0 in the product, but still you are talking about a pretty high rate of product. I think the application rate was well over 100 gallon to the acre but whatever the number was, I did the math and it was the equivalent of getting around 3/8" of rain on the ground at the application point (the half inch strip). Because of that, we felt confident the vast majority was going in the ground immediately. Comparing that to urea laying on top, obviously you needed rain or irrigation to accomplish that.
A warning - make sure the product is clean. Ours came from the direct from the river terminal and there was sand mixed in it. As you can imagine, sand does not melt, but it spreads very well. We ended up needing to go to one application hose on the ydrops and put it all out one hose to get a big enough orfice size to let the sand through. Small mesh strainers were plugged all the time so got the biggest available (6 mesh maybe?) to catch the big stuff, and just flush the rest through the system. We got the 12 semi loads of urea melted and applied but it was frustrating for awhile.
Take care
Edited by NEIAAG 12/15/2025 06:28
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