WCOH | scottyb69 - 1/1/2026 23:05
Aren't sharpening that pencil too much if youre feeding first crop beans.... should be spreading extra on corn and soybeans take up the rest like the old timers who survived the 80s
My yield data over 8 years proved this wrong. Fertilize each crop each year. Expecting high yields from fields of soybeans that last had fertilizer applied 19 months before is not how to maximize yields.
For other reasons I do not have a dry fertilizer planter anylonger and went to liquid. When I did have one I ran about a 60% rate of dry fertilizer. add in your sulfur, cal-sul was better and cheaper than ams and micronutrients like zinc and boron cheap. While soybeans dont use much zinc as corn, it is a cheap way to keep building those zinc levels.
All of those years of testing and seeing higher yields fertilizing soybeans I now spread dry fertilizer each year for each crop. I am always thinking how to get back to dry fertilizer on the planter but my soybean yields are higher in 15" rows than 30"
Edited by dwinter 1/2/2026 14:11
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2x2 dry fertilizer with Soybeans
