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Re: O/T - When to fertilize hayfield?
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Posted by kyhayman on June 19, 2006 at 18:49:33 from (68.171.76.92):
In Reply to: O/T - When to fertilize hayfield? posted by KYfarm on June 19, 2006 at 17:49:19:
Depends on what the hay crop is. I normally fertilize grass and grass clover hay in March. Occassionally, if hay is REAL short I will fertilize grass hay with ammonium nitrate in August. Hard to justify with high fertilizer prices and good supplies of spring hay. Alfalfa, I like to fertilize after second cutting with P and K and again after last cutting with K. Normally, I use P and K to soil test. Grass hay will get 250# ammonium nitrate per acre. Alfalfa after the first cutting (or in the case of some today, after the second) 100# DAP and 200# of muriate of potash. I made the conscious decision not to buy N this year. At $350 a ton for ammonium nitrate, there is no way I can justify it. Cut my grass hay yields by a third. On a sample field that dropped my hay yield from 60 rolls to 40. 20 rolls at $25.00 would have just about paid what I bought in N. Not my idea of buying a job.
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