Aceface
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- Lincolnshire
About 7 or 8 years ago I picked up a leaflet at either Cereals or Lamma (which may or may not have been produced by Omex). It gave the usual reasons why switching to the use of liquid had advantages over the use of solid N, such as no bags to dispose of, accurate dressing up to the outer edge of the crop, the freeing up of shed space etc, etc. However, I am sure one of it's points was that by blocking off the jets that are over the tramlines, that wasted N can be largely avoided. Each year I think about doing this, but I have never done it, because I like my boom high when using liquid N and you only need a slight breeze for the jets you have blocked to be off target. However this year, if I block 2 or perhaps 3 spouts per wheeling, (out of the 192 over a 24 metre boom), that will be over 2 or 3% of valurable N not wasted. Does anyone actually do this in practise?, or is it just a better idea on paper than in practise?.
Any thoughts will be appreciated, many thanks.
Any thoughts will be appreciated, many thanks.