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Fond du lac | I have more questions than answers. Is the dark green the center of the spreader or the overlap? Was that your only Nitrogen application for the year? Were you in some of the large rain events last year? Did you run a Nitrate test in the dark vs the light areas? How was the yield in each spot compared to normal? Without these answers i could make the case that you miss managed these fields. There is definitely a difference in uniformity, but by how much. If the spreader swath was wider your stressed area could have been larger. Based on being able to see the tile lines I would says you are way short on N and this is a sign to reevaluate you nitrogen program and the fact that overlap was that much better shows you how much you have been leaving on the table with poor Nitrogen management. This is just speculation base on couple pictures with not enough information to come a conclusion of my own. We all are assuming your conclusion is right that coop screwed up. With that much of difference there was more then likely a way to help with this during season with a nitrate test. Could have spread urea again, Y-drop the stress area, called an airplane to hit the light areas. All these crop management practices could mitigated the yield loss in season and more then payed for themselves based on of the color of these maps. 150lbs of N with a weather event on ground that needs drainage I pretty sure isn’t enough. Don’t take this as I am defending the coop. Just that much more could be happening here then just one spreader pass. | |
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Nutrien Custom Spreading Job
