| GrainTrader - 12/5/2025 06:06
Idk where I stand of the dry fertilizer debate, but (currently) I feel you need to feed the soil/plant something every year. So if your looking to cut I’d still spread some but cut it back, inspired some every year because of sulfur also.
I bought a farm this spring and about half of it was grass. I sprayed the grass out and planted corn only applying 80lbs of map and 80lbs of potash plus about 75lbs ams and 150 lbs of N via urea. Everything was banded in a strip. P levels in that part of the farm ranged from 2 ppm to 5 ppm. That part of the farm grew 221bu corn. There were 2 hybrids out there, 1 made 240 the other made 200 due to rust. The fact that I could grow 240 bu corn with only 80lbs of map on less than 5 ppm P1 should prove that you don't have to feed the crop all of this synthetic P every year. With high confidence I can say that was probably the highest yielding corn in that general area this year. It was able to achieve that yield because the OM was over 4% and the nutrients were made available by the soil biology. |
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