How much does everyone put on?
Or not bother and just put plenty of muck on beforehand?
Or not bother and just put plenty of muck on beforehand?
Maize and artificial fert
- Thread starter jackrussell101
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- Location
- South Molton
Robbing Peter to pay Paul with the muck?
The Son
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- Location
- Herefordshire
20t of fym, 15m3 of digestate per acre as close to planting as poss, some micro granular down the spout at planting and that is ii.
18.5t/acre over the weighbridge 30% dm this year, all Glory planted 1st june
18.5t/acre over the weighbridge 30% dm this year, all Glory planted 1st june
Do you apply the digestate before cultivation or after?
- Location
- South Molton
Your taking the muck away from.Arable or grassland to put in maize ground. Those nutrients have to be replaced
The Son
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Before ploughing
betweenthelines
Member
- Location
- southwest
- Location
- South Molton
Use a starter fert down the spout plus a healthy dollop of FYM or slurry incorporated as muck won’t work for a few months until the roots get stuck in to it.
Top dress with AN at three leaf or will slurry just before emergence
Dead Rabbits
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- Location
- 'Merica
- Location
- South Molton
Yep that's one reason for loose housing
ollie989898
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You must put DAP or similar under the seed. 40-50kg/acre.
Around here the fields are so lashed with FYM and slurry I wouldn't bother with any additional nitrogen. A maize crop that is short of N P or K will be acutely obvious to even a holiday maker passing by it. I can think of only a few times I have seen a genuine deficiency like that. I had customers who would put on nitrogen religiously but I could never see any benefit from it.
Soil test your fields, apply the slurry or what have you and make up any shortfall of P and K ahead of time. Where none is required, go with just the 40-50kg of DAP.
Those little seminal roots need to find phosphate very very early on or you will be in a world of hurt, especially in a cool damp season.
That microgranular stuff is the biggest con going. Wouldn't bother with it.
Not convinced the UK has explored the impact of seed rates fully as yet but would go with a variety that was a minimum of an 8 in maturity but preferably a 10.
Around here the fields are so lashed with FYM and slurry I wouldn't bother with any additional nitrogen. A maize crop that is short of N P or K will be acutely obvious to even a holiday maker passing by it. I can think of only a few times I have seen a genuine deficiency like that. I had customers who would put on nitrogen religiously but I could never see any benefit from it.
Soil test your fields, apply the slurry or what have you and make up any shortfall of P and K ahead of time. Where none is required, go with just the 40-50kg of DAP.
Those little seminal roots need to find phosphate very very early on or you will be in a world of hurt, especially in a cool damp season.
That microgranular stuff is the biggest con going. Wouldn't bother with it.
Not convinced the UK has explored the impact of seed rates fully as yet but would go with a variety that was a minimum of an 8 in maturity but preferably a 10.
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