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| Soil tests look short for P and K and some parts of the place I know have never had either applied and the rest of the place hasn't had either in a couple years. We could have applied P and K for 2009, but their price was so darn high in the spring and the soil tests plus removal guesses didn't make their need seem so serious. The corn this year did have purple stalks in the spring, a hint sometimes of such a need. I told the tenant (and this is crop share where I pay half the fertilizer) that we had to pay the piper if we wanted to grow good corn, so he put that much down. I think maybe 100 pounds of AMS. He'll stir the rows (has his own GPS base station so he'll hit the rows perfectly in the spring) while working in the 32%, probably about 8 x 8 inches and plant in the middle of that, likely the same day. This farm is turning to continuous corn because of too many tries at beans with poor results.
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100 lbs ammonium sulfate
