- Location
- South Notts
As a FACTS registered advisor I would much rather recommend urea goes on in April in cool and damp conditions than rush to apply it before end of March and see it all pee off into the ditches / ground water!? The metric on safe urea spreading should be day time temp and if the soil has adequate moisture - not a calendar date. I don’t deny risk of urea volatilisation should always be taken into account but in the UK this is only a very small period of summer - any advisor or farmer with an ounce of common sense wouldn’t apply urea when risk of volatilisation is high away as they want their investment on their crops , not in the atmosphere!