Re: Liquid Fertilizers?

Posted by The tractor vet on February 08, 2019 at 09:26:38 from (104.179.81.68):

In Reply to: Liquid Fertilizers? posted by modirt on February 08, 2019 at 07:40:49:

Now not being and expert on the liquid think here but i have used it while i was hobby farming is the easy of handling if you are somewhat set up to do so . First round of being around it was when i set up a planter for a customer . and a Danish tang cultivator for putting down 28% , now this was 25-27 years ago and things have changed a lot since then . This customer was the DMI blockman and was always into new ideas . He was tryen to get guys around here to try the DMI stuff and the only problem at the time was most did not have enough pony power to pull that stuff . So he bought a sharp 6030 and invite people to come down to his farm and watch it work pulling the rippers and field cultivators and such . He was also peddling this Liquid Fert. stuff and i don't remember the brand at this moment but i installed this stuff on a nice John Deere 1240 plateless four row . then since he only had the 6030 he conded me into pulling his planter with one of my 706's . I planted 210 acres with that planter consisting of field corn , pop corn and sunflowers . Sure opened my eyes up on how much easier it was for one guy to plant with liquid over dry . The way it was set up was that three gallon to the acre was applied directly on the seed and seven gallon next to the seed three inches to the side and two inched deeper , pressure and flow was handled by and electric driven pump with a control unit on the tractor next to the planter monitor , when you raised the planted up at the head land a micro switch would shut off the flow to the row units and bypass back to the tanks maintaining pressure and flow but as soon as you dropped the planter everything was back in action . HUGE time savings over usen dry at a rate of 390-400 lbs per acre where you were stopping to fill back up with fert . every other round and like me with planting and usen bagged fert. At that time around here most were still planting on the 38 inch row and a population rate of around 26 to 28500per acre .Another thing i learned was plant emrgecy was two to four days faster then what i would get usen my dry fert. Next thing i noticed was how much the corn jumped after being side dress with the 28% . Now not knowing much about pop corn or sunflower but the corn i planted with his planter verses what i planted with my 1240 usen my dry he avg. 9 to 14 BBa over mine . I was able to plant more acres a day with his liquid set up then with my dry as i had to finger print each bag where with his when it needed filled all i had to do was start a 5 horse Briggs hook up one hose and open and close two valves and catch any spillage from the hook up when you unhooked in a five gallon bucket and dump it back in the nurse tank.

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