Seller, my problem isn't leaching but rather just the simple washing of the nutrients down the hillside and into the stream. It burns me a little bit to spend several thousand on nutrients each fall to watch it wash away. When you can see fertilizer pellets in the ditch it's obvious that something needs to change. The no-till issue is also that all the applied nutrients are right there in the top 1/2 of soil when broadcasting, far above the roots. P moves slowly and is generally tied up (bonded to other molecules and unusable) before it could ever reach the root zone. That makes the broadcasting of pellets an inefficient choice for no-till. I know that's how most do it but that doesn't make it an efficient practice.
Rate would depend on the crop to be planted. Corn, soybeans and wheat are the normals in my neck of the woods. Our dirt is in pretty good shape from being in pasture for years, but I'd sure like to keep it that way. I hate the thoughts of mining all of the nutrients out of the dirt. Even if I put them back on top with pellets the problem still exists down where it counts.
Acres would be 20. I bought an Adams 12 row liquid rig today that was set up to apply liquid N on corn. My plan is to remove the wings of the toolbar and put all the Coulters on the center section to make a 10 ft swath on 10" spacings. The rig has a John Blue piston pump.
I guess I was looking for advice on foreseeable problems and any lessons learned from those who have used such a practice so that I don't have to attend the school of hard knocks and waste a pile of money in the process. As you all know, these nutrients aren't cheap.
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