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Driftless SW Wisconsin | One possibility is to have someone broadcast/spread the K dry, maybe a couple year's worth at a time to minimize compaction. Then go 10-34-0 and 28% (or similar) liquid) for P & N in the strip.
It is a lot easier and lower initial cost to set up a strip till bar for liquid than dry. Our toolbar provides the capacity to mount about 750 gal on the 16 row or up to about 1000 gal on the 12 row directly to the frame above the two large tires as pictured on MT Waseca thread & below. This does provide the ability to maneuver into tight spots. and reduces crabbing of a separate pull behind tank.
One of our customers has however put together a 24 row with a 60 ft JD/Bauer DB60 toolbar. On the Bauer bar he has mounted a Gandy box which has some features which lend itself to this application. Because of the metering system it gets very uniform product distribution to each row even though the tubes are not equal length.
The box has somewhat limited capacity but worked quite well this spring putting on dry P & K with a bit of N in the DAP. This was thoroughly mixed in the strip and served as a starter also. The customer then puts the rest of his N on with the planter as 28%. I was amazed at how thoroughly this customer thought out this setup! He farms a lot of smaller parcels and was actually able to back this 24 row unit into corners and did a lot of odd shaped fields very efficiently. He pulled it with a Cat 55 at about 250 hp.
Dry or liquid you do need to keep in mind the size and shape and slopes of your fields when considering mounting the fertilizer on the strip till bar or pulling an air cart or liquid tank behind.
Here are a couple pictures of very compact dry and liquid setups mentioned above.
Jim at Dawn
Edited by Jim 8/1/2006 02:05
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hey agboy, do you strip-till and what kind of machine do you use, if you do?
