Norstman - 12/25/2015 08:56
easymoney - 12/25/2015 07:36
I have 6500$ into my strip till rig, for a few hundred dollars I could have it running variable rate. just need to get more grid sampling done.
the university's have 20 years of history showing how banded fertility is more efficient.
I will let you know how its going the next time I soil test.
with a broadcaster you spread 100 lbs to the acre, but each row has a 10" root zone, so there is 10" between 2 rows on every acre that is getting fertilized but nothing is growing there.
with a band you put 50 lbs under the plant right in the rot zone.
on 3 dollar corn if I can cut big money from my fertilizer budget and still get the same yields how do I not do it.
better get used to banding fertility now. wont be long and the gov. will ban the use of broadcasters.
By banding only half the amount wouldn't you still be mining the soil? I have never understood the "you better do it the way I am because the government is going to ban it soon" mentality. I doubt broadcasting will be banned. I heard the same argument from my neighbor when I bought a nh3 bar. He claimed it would be a big paper weight because nh3 was going to be banned the next year.
strip till fertilizer savings??
