Bulk fertilizer and lime?

I would think it hard to get all of the granular residue out of a pickup bed or whatever you might haul it in which might lead to corrosion. Liquid would be easier to contain for hauling. Not bad to put on either, but it is more expensive in most cases.

10-10-10 would be a poor fert to order, if you established some good clover last year you already have 40+ lbs of N in the ground, you'll only need another 30-50 to make 100 bu corn. I can't see you going for 200bu the first year, you might only want to aim for 75bu yields? It's a food plot....

P & K it's hard for the crop to use more than 60 lbs of either if you are looking at 100bu corn.

If you put on 500 lbs of 10-10-10 per acre (15 bags?) and if the lime was working already you'd get 100bu corn from the 50lbs of actual you were getting.

I'd look for a better mix tho of fert. Starter here is 5-22-Iforgetbut 18 orso. 500 lbs of that per acre will break the bank this year, but give you a heck of a buildup of P&K for the next 3 years, and you can add a little N as you put a crop in.

Fert dealers here deliver bulk, if you have some place to dump it in, wagon or such. Note that you will rust the heck out of anything of course....

You might need to have the whole 6 acres done this year, let them spread the lime & then spread the P&K. Those will help whatever you grow, & 6 acres might be enough to make it work for them. then you can add the N (which disappears much qucicker than P & K) as you want to yourself.

Note that I put on more N, but less P&K than this for my corn fields, where I want 175+ yields & next year's bean P&K needs as well. You should not need tons of fert per acre! Lime I understand, but no way on the N-P-K!

--->Paul

Case in point, with tobacco, a super high value and very fertilizer intensive crop you might be talking 3000 (1 ton of 5-10-15 and a 1000 pounds ammonium nitrate was the old standard without soil testing, though rarely did I need that much phosphate) pounds or so per acre of fertilizer with a low soil test. Rarely do I find a field calling for more than 500 pounds for any other crop unless its vegetables (winter squash sometimes takes upwards of a ton per acre) . Lime, sure, you can get some fields that need a lot but even then a 7-10 ton single axle truck load would be a lot.

Take a closer look at your soil sample information. It is likely telling you that you need 1.5 tons of lime per acre. Really, the fertilizer information is sort of hard to read. 10-10-10 is an odd mix unless it is sack fertilizer sold by the bag.

Bottom line is you can't make the fertilizer or the lime. I take my soil sample to my local farmers Co-op and tell them what I'm going to fertilize - grain, pasture, etc and they mix and load into a buggy (four wheel wagon which is pulled with my pickup and then spread with tractor and pto). For the lime you can rent a buggy and get the amount of lime you want loaded. You can spread that with your tractor and pto as well. The only way to find "real" savings on this is shop around - you'll pay more to have the vendor spread it - or you can do it yourself and may or may not really save any money.

Hope this informtion helps.

I"ve never heard of land the needed tons of fertilizer for 1.5 acres.

If it does it will be way to expensive at a $400 to $600 per ton cost at this time.

Maybe you are saying tons of lime to 1.5 acres,if you are that can would be right.

Gary