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Spring up here is a tough time to put down fert & run a chisel plow. Works sometimes, but hard to plan for. If wet, spreader compacts, chisel will smear & seal the ground, takin the compaction down deep. Could you have spread the manure this fall & then disk the ground? Would be a better plan, if it fails to happen you still have spring to do something. now if your plan fails to bad weather, little recource. What I do is spread the manure into the oats stubble, the blow-over oats is regrowing & uses much of the nutrients including the N tht comes loose. When you work the oats regrowth back intot he ground, you reclaim much of the nutrients. Can wait on tillage but not loose very much. I think you don't lose quite so much N anyhow. The tree huggers like to overstate that. You really can't lose more than 1/3 of 1/2 the first year, and again 1/3 of the other half the next year. Manure pack doesn't break down that fast, takes 2 years. You don't lose 90%, as 1/2 of it doesn't even become available - not lost. Unless this is liquid manure you were dealing with - that fitters away quicker. Most manure studies these days are on liquid manure, which does not transfer well to solid manure pack. Different products, behave differently. --->Paul
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