Starter Fertilizer, Corn, Beans, Others?

J.ReinkeFarms · Apr 7, 2010

Just wondering what some of you guys use for corn starter, soybean starter if you use it. I know that's more of a northern thing but was just courious.

For corn the old guys around here use 16-16-16 dry, some guys have liquid and put on 10-34-0 at 20gal/acre and spread pot ash with zinc the fall before and work it in.

Soybeans are all over the board. The few I talk to like 6-24-24 dry broadcast and put it on at 300lbs/acre.

Wheat last year I put on 500lbs/acre of 18-17-12-14S. Best wheat I ever had. No wheat this year though. Kicked myself on that one when wheat went over 6.00 in December.

kyhayman · Apr 7, 2010

I only regularly use, or should I say used, it in tobacco. 7-14-7 in the setter water at 4 gallons per acre. I cant tell it makes a whole lot of difference one way or the other. To me, phosphorous is the real key to starter fertilizer. Its pretty much immobile and when soils are cold and wet the root micro zone can get deficient even if soil test levels are adequate. Corn normally gives you enough time to grow out of any early deficiencey, soybeans usually go into warmer soils, tobacco was the real catcher, transplanted, short season, high levels of nitrogen. Our soils almost all test high to very high in P, even without P fertilization. Your results may vary.

JMS/.MN · Apr 8, 2010

Fertilizer recommendations depend on soil tests, showing existing levels, the crop you plan to plant, and the yield goal of that crop. Throwing some "mix" on the field does not change the imbalance that already exists. The correct mix depends on your starting point.

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