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NW Illinois | We started using it around 2010. Mosaic spent some money with us to promote it. Our coop's head of agronomy liked the product since it gave us something different in the marketplace to talk about. He didn't like dealing with constant pricing fights between MAP/DAP pricing with other competitors. He felt this allowed us to change the discussion away from price point per ton. There was even a short stretch where we were allowed to bring the product in house early and not pay for it. We were optioned to prepay, pay anytime before use or pay as we hauled inventory out. That was a significant incentive from a monetary point to us.
Point is there can be many behind the scenes reasons for the switch and lack of other phosphorus products within the companies system. It's been my experience here that it has more to do with internal decisions then necessarily agronomy first focused, not that the sales desk won't tell you differently. Locally less then 5% of dry is applied in any form of strip or below surface, 95% is surface applied with twin spinners and 75% of that is VR spread. There is just better choices locally when breaking the sulfur from the phosphorus, especially financially to the customer.
Edited by SimpleJoe 1/31/2026 10:35
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Local retailers not offering MAP/DAP?
