fert on w crops

David.

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I meant that I think it is less mobile than some people credit. It cannot be available for the crop until washed into the soil, which probably needs the first 1/2 inch of rain to achieve, the next inch will not cause any problems, particularly from the dry position we are now in. It will probably then dry up again mid March for a month, if it rains again then, I shall put a second dose on. I cannot see an early application being too wrong, I have regretted not getting it on far more often than having done it.
 

4course

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north yorks
I meant that I think it is less mobile than some people credit. It cannot be available for the crop until washed into the soil, which probably needs the first 1/2 inch of rain to achieve, the next inch will not cause any problems, particularly from the dry position we are now in. It will probably then dry up again mid March for a month, if it rains again then, I shall put a second dose on. I cannot see an early application being too wrong, I have regretted not getting it on far more often than having done it.
I agree, you can never win playing catch up , not applying some N early is in a dry time going to cost more in output than waiting and getting delayed with wet and untravelable land. We will be looking to go early feb with a bit if still dryish and no snow ,also watch the snowdrops and daffs as indicators of soil temp and growth
 
If you know you have soils that do not dish up a lot of N in Feb as they warm, and you have crops that don't look hugely forward, then a go with some urea is fine, although I got caught once with the stuff, applied it to a backward crop and the weather turned very very cool for a long time, crop looked sick whilst anything that had a sniff of AN started moving.

With liquid fertiliser I think you are short-cutting the process of getting it into the plant by some margin.
 

richard hammond

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BASIS
I agree, you can never win playing catch up , not applying some N early is in a dry time going to cost more in output than waiting and getting delayed with wet and untravelable land. We will be looking to go early feb with a bit if still dryish and no snow ,also watch the snowdrops and daffs as indicators of soil temp and growth
We had Daffs showing 2 weeks before Christmas!
 

4course

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north yorks
Nooooo! I will be using a bit of common sense, nature does occasionally get it wrong after all it is biology not a fortune teller!!
(did you mention buds previous?)
common sense is follow nature , I will follow nature as grandad told me years ago and im still here, just my view and as always each to their own. If I can see daff buds we will go if we can travel without making a mark as wouldnt want flowers before first app
 

DRC

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If you know you have soils that do not dish up a lot of N in Feb as they warm, and you have crops that don't look hugely forward, then a go with some urea is fine, although I got caught once with the stuff, applied it to a backward crop and the weather turned very very cool for a long time, crop looked sick whilst anything that had a sniff of AN started moving.

With liquid fertiliser I think you are short-cutting the process of getting it into the plant by some margin.
When you say, you got caught etc , do you mean your advice as an agronomist . Do many people use an agronomist for fertiliser decisions , as I find that very strange .
I would rather make my own decisions on fertiliser .
 
ah those where the days, pub yield of 4t/ ac realisticically 3-1/2 norman and huntsman, now you would be shot for applying n on snow and that would be after a dollop at sowing
AN would be a problem
Although we did put it on in late January rape then second wheats and barley first wheats often had no early n but first wheats had lashings of muck

If it stays dry then we will be putting some n on wheat under notill in february
 

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