Northeast, Nebraska | pigfarmer82 - 4/28/2025 13:46
If you actually care about the environment as much as you seem to indicate then anhydrous. New university study actually says it increases worm populations. Agronomically it is hard to beat for stability in the ground and season long plant availability. Downside getting hard to get in our area and safety hazard is real.
Might want to reread that university study. The one I found says the the worms in the fertilizer band decreased significantly and then over time increased to more than the areas that didn't have the fertilizer. They then go on to say that it wasn't necessarily more worms than the trials that used other forms of fertility. Your post makes it sound like using anhydrous increased the worm populations more than other farming practices, which just isn't true. Worms go to where the food is. I was just checking planted seeds today in a high tillage field. Deep tillage and spring tillage and the seed trenches were full of worms. The main reason, in my opinion, is because of the humic/fulvic in put out. It is carbon and that's what worms feed on |
Anhydrous vs Urea- soil health - short term/long term ?
