Posted by fixerupper on July 12, 2018 at 20:31:48 from (108.161.63.136):
In Reply to: Honesty in farming! posted by oldtanker on July 12, 2018 at 16:23:27:
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Several reasons, all related to ag. One reason in my opinion goes way back to the plowing of the prairies. Prairie land was covered with grass that used up the natural nitrogen in the soil. Then we dug drainage ditches and installed drain tile that drained the prairies. Those two actions alone did not add much to the nitrogen co tent of the natural rivers. Then nitrogen was applied to th soil to help corn plants but it wasn’t much because the corn of yesteryear wasn’t capable of near the yields we see today. Corn hybrids were improved and made capable of higher yields but higher yields needed more fertilizer. You see where I’m going with this. Now I’m getting on my soap box here; To save time and soil compaction in the spring farmers were and still are fall applying nitrogen in the form of anhydrous ammonia. If the soil is below 50 degrees anhydrous will stay in the nitrite form and will not move much in the soil. When the soil warms up in the spring, bacteria change the nitrite form of nitrogen into nitrate. Now it becomes water soluble and can move down into the soil and into the drainage tile. The soil can warm up before the corn is planted so the nitrate is sitting there not being used, and even if the corn is planted it doesn’t use much nitrogen until it is taller. Different hybrids need nitrogen at different beginning stages so there is no one size fits all here. I used to fall apply anhydrous but figured I lost too much and you can guess where it went. Besides, I had that money tied up for nearly a year till the crop was harvested.
I see split application as a good way to be sure allow nearly all the nitrogen applied to be used by the corn plants but it is not a perfect sure bet. Nothing is a sure bet in farming. It does cost more because of the application costs. application equipment is used more times and that equipment doesn’t run for free. Then we get into the problem of the weather screwing up application timing like this year. In my area the water samples that were heavy in livestock which is another can of worms.
There is more but I’m not getting into it anymore. Explaining this to a person who hasn’t farmed full time for a living is like a computer expert trying to explain how a computer works to a computer illiterate guy like me.
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