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Southcentral Montana | Due to the current cost of fertilizer, combined with a terrible crop year and hail this year, I’m almost considering not using dry fert on some wheat ground this spring and just relying on manure+cover crop benefits.
I’m planning to do this on ground that had barley this year, and took an 80% hail loss. I spread a pretty healthy application of bedpack cattle manure about a month ago and plowed it in along with all the green manure from the hail. (You wouldn’t believe how much came back up, you would have thought I replanted).
Come spring I should have enough manure in the pens to make a light application of manure if necessary, or not. I’m okay with some amount of yield loss, (county average is 75-85 bpa irrigated) as long as I’m still money ahead with skipping the custom application of dry fert. | |
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Spring wheat and manure
