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1. What is your yield goal???? Unharvested fields that flood - maybe you should _NOT_ be putting any fertilizer at all on this area. They are starting to regulate us farmers so much, so many requirements.... If you never harvest anything from this land, the corn the critters take away is replaced by their poo. Flood land typically is high in fertility anyhow. And then flood waters will wash away excess N & Phosphorous, contributing to a high fert load in the watershed. Which us real farmers get blamed for, and then more & more regulations come down on _our_ heads. So, have you soil tested, are you meeting the needs of the plants without overloading your soil? Are you being a good land steward?
2. Typically applying granular fertilizer through the starter boxes on the planter in a 2x2 (2 inches to the side, 2 inches below) by the row lets you use at least 1/3, and up to 2/3 less fertilizer as broadcast with the same yield results. This saves you money, and keeps N & Phosphorous out of our waterways.
For sure, no doubt about it, you should be running the fert in the planter. --->Paul
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