Corn starter fertilizer

I am a hobby, food plot farmer. Just bought a 2 row JD 7000 corn planter that has a liquid fertilizer setup on it., and what to just try growing field corn. Not for profit just for wildlife. Tried to figure out what to use for starter in furrow liquid fertilizer. I watched a lot of videos and read a lot online only to find out that no matter what I think I wanted to try and use, the products are only available to a commercial business / and or in huge volumes.
I will do a soil test to see what I need but i am told after that to talk to my agronomist to get reccomendations. I dont have an agronomist and I am not worried about yield or profit, just want to plant some corn and watch it grow.
I do realize that there is alot that goes into deciding what to use but I am looking for a simple suggestion on what to use and where I can get it as a non commercial user ?
Any help greatly appreciated.

Any fertilizer dealer worth anything will be glad to sell
you five gallon or 50,000 gallons of fertilizer

You should be able to get small amounts of fertilizer from yard and garden
shops or landscape businesses.

Ben

Rent a spreader and spread dry fertilizer.

Corn uses a little P and K and a fair amount of N. If you are trying to yield decent a little tiny bit of sulfur and a pinch
of boron often helps.

In furrow you need to be really careful of salt burn on your seed. Those setups are for very light amounts of pop up
fertilizer. It brings the sprouts out of a cold wet soil, they look good and healthy up to 6 inches tall. But you will need
more N for the rest of the year, and you cant put that in the seed trench! You will hardly notice any difference at the
end of the year with the small amount of fert you can put in the seed trench.

Low salt type liquid fertilizers you can put maybe 5 gallons an acre on. Regular liquid fertilizers you might want to
put 2.5 gallons on mix with 2.5 gallons water. You dont want too much salt!

If you are plumbed to apply 2-4 inches to the side of the seed, then you can apply a lot more. That little bit of dirt
makes such a big difference on the salt burn as the seed sprouts! You couldnt put enough on for a real crop, but
would get enough this way for a food plot.

Liquid fertilizer is kind of expensive, but it can be easy for what you are doing. I would look to see if you can dribble
fert to the side with your setup, and maybe get enough on to be good for the food plot. Not cheap, but easy.

Paul

I checked and the system on my planter is from Schaffert Mfg and it has their Y-Not in furrow applicator tube on it. It supposedly distributes the fertilizer on both sides of the furrow, so I think that should help prevent burning.
A few years back I planted a crop with my rebuilt deere 290 2 row and applied granular starter fertilizer with it and that worked great. Broadcast urea when it was about knee high and man it worked like you would think I knew what I was doing. Sprayed it once to kill the weeds.
While the 290 worked ok they stopped putting the plate numbers to use on the corn seed bag and so last year I picked the wrong plate and it didn't turn out so good. So sold that and got the 7000 with the liquid tank.
So I am hoping to duplicate what I did a few years ago but dont want to screw it up again.
With the 290 I did try once to broadcast fertilizer and while the corn grew the weeds grew much better and it was tough controlling them. I dont live where I farm so I have to get things done when I can, not wen the should be done.
Thanks
Alan

I vote for the dry fert buggy. Be sure and use Nitrogen stabilizer.