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neilo, do you put fert in with the seed in the simtech or does your new drill have a separate box? I thought about doing this with fert and slug pellets but worried that the smoother fert might make its way down to the sponges quicker than the seed.
I’ve never tried putting fert in with the seed, and no, the new drill doesn’t have a separate fert box (I don’t think i’d Spec one if it was available tbh). I have mixed slug pellets with seed on occasion (where Glastir wouldn’t let me apply on the surface after drilling), and they seemed to stay mixed OK. I suspect fert would be the same?
Where I have wanted to put fert in the seedbed, i’ve Run over it quickly with the fert spreader beforehand, then the drill has mixed it into the seeding zone anyway.
I don’t really see a need unless P index is on the floor (as it was when I arrived here), as N is surely mobile enough to move down from surface spreading anyway.