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I long for the days of cheap fertilizer

redrobin

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I ran across this picture. Man that cheap fertilizer sure was nice.
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I don't remember Andy. One year we had the fertilizer truck set on lime speed. That might have been the year. I remember it happened in that field.

Gcreek , kind of like the wicked witch in the wizard of oz?
 
redrobin said:
I don't remember Andy. One year we had the fertilizer truck set on lime speed. That might have been the year. I remember it happened in that field.

Gcreek , kind of like the wicked witch in the wizard of oz?


Maybe. Whatever melting process occurred it sure made the grass come on. :wink:
 
Man that cheap fertilizer sure was nice.

I remember when Dad fussed about Nitrate of Soda costing $20 per ton.

That was back in the day when we spread it with an EZEE-FLOW. :shock:

We always used a ton or two of Guano in the garden. That stuff would make some Okra. :lol:
 
We just paid out $1400 to fertilize 20 acres with a mix of nitrogen and phosporous. And people in the area wonder why a large round bale is now going as high as $85.
 
It's about $400 a ton here. I have'nt spread fertilizer in 5 years or more.Other than on some new seeding and it was mixed with oats and grass seeds blow on with a rogator. I'm looking at 40 acres of reed canary meadow about 30 is hayable they want $750 an acre. I'm going to offer $400 to start with we'll see if I get it bought. I'd rather own the land than buy fertilizer. That old peat ground will put out 150 1100# bales without any inputs.
 
I put out 15-10-30 at $500 a ton spread. The plan is for first applaction to be 70 units of N , 50 units of P, and 150 units of K.. The second applaction in mid to late June is to be 70 units of N and 100 units of K. on hay fields.
 

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