Fertilizer Prices Per Ton

joshjd49 · Jan 12, 2011

What is every body paying for hay feild fertilizer per ton? I am looking at getting some for my feilds just dont want to pay to much. I was looking at getting either chicken manure or a mix of nitrogen, urea and something else that I cant remember. Dont know to much about fertilizer ansd I am unsure. Thanks

Josh

GordoSD · Jan 12, 2011

What did your soil samples show?

Gordo

jimva · Jan 12, 2011

Before you purchase fertlizer you really should spend the 10 or 20 bucks for a soil sample. This way you know what you need or dont need. Fertilizer is to expensive to just guess. You could be spending money on fertilizer you dont need or spending money for not enough fertilizer.

joshjd49 · Jan 12, 2011

I sent 2 tests to Penn State and it came back and said that

soil ph
nitrogen
phosphorus
potassium

where all in optimum level. The paper showed that there were 3 levels which are below optimum level, optimum, and above optimum. I dont have the papers with me and I am at college.

paul · Jan 12, 2011

Fert is terribly high priced & going up - because it can.

I'd only fert to what your crop will remove at this time.

What are you growing & how many bu are you planning for?

Do you need to broadcast, or is it in a band beside the row?

--->Paul

hayray · Jan 12, 2011

You are currently looking at around $500 per ton and by spring if oil and commodity prices hold strong I would bet a lot higher.

kyhayman · Jan 12, 2011

If P, K and pH are all ok then you just need some nitrogen. I paid 480 a ton for urea plus 2.50 an acre spreading charge on prepay Dec 31. Ammonium nitrate was at 460. If corn holds up my dealer says look for at least a 25 percent increase in the next 6 weeks.

Phosphate and potassium were the killers for me. DAP at 700 a ton and muriate of potash at 540.

wilder11354 · Jan 12, 2011

Joshjd what type crops did you select on tests for recommended fertilizing, and what rates did they recommend? PH/lime what rates recommended?
maintaing exsisiting crops or new planting?

LarryT · Jan 13, 2011

The industrialists are going to put us out of business. I have started going with raw materials like potash and raw gypsum and I am growing a enzymatic supplement called BioChem. I drip it in with the irrigation water. Takes a bit to see the difference, but when you do it just jumps out at you. I get one more cutting a season that the others around me and the protein content is running better than 22%. Just with the Sulfur and Biochem I have had roughly 30% increase in yield. But it all takes time but I save it in fertilizer costs. It really optimizes the fertilizer you put down and it costs a minimum to set up and grow. May 2011 be a prosperous year for all of us. LarryT

Anonymous-0 · Jan 13, 2011

well if your at optimum levels just put down N like mentioned earlier, and just a maintenance level at that, i would assume prices will decline sometime so try and holdout.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 13, 2011

After that last screwing we took two years ago, fertilizer dropped quite a bit and last spring we decided it was a good time to double up on P &K (two years worth) before it went sky high again. Despite the large amount which was spread, the fall soil test results indicated we could still use some more potash. Fertilizer hadn't yet increased so we hit it hard again, 500 lbs/acre. Although going to beans we ripped it and shouldn't have salt problems. Believe it was a good decision. With these crop prices, fertilizer is going to get a lot higher.

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