fertilizer

[critterair2]

Anybody using watered down manure? how's it working?

 

[backhoeboogie]

Anybody using watered down manure? how's it working?

Hubam clover is what I am using. I over planted a hay field last year and did not fertilize that one field. I kept all hay from it for myself. It actually produced more hay than fields that were fertilized with granular. Much cheaper overall and the cow received a lot of winter browsing over that clover.

Turner Seed had Hubam for $2 a lb PLS. They are sold out now. Good thing I got my seed early.

 

[dun]

A cople of times a year they pump the parlor lagoon at the dairy and shoot it on a couple of pastures with big , I mean really BIG0 sprinkler heads. They don;t fertilize those fields but the K is getting rediulously high on them.

 

[MikeC]

A cople of times a year they pump the parlor lagoon at the dairy and shoot it on a couple of pastures with big , I mean really BIG0 sprinkler heads. They don;t fertilize those fields but the K is getting rediulously high on them.

K or P? Chicken litter usually raises the Phosphorus content.

 

[dun]

A cople of times a year they pump the parlor lagoon at the dairy and shoot it on a couple of pastures with big , I mean really BIG0 sprinkler heads. They don;t fertilize those fields but the K is getting rediulously high on them.

K or P? Chicken litter usually raises the Phosphorus content.

Just double checked and it's K. Most dairys have the problem where they spread manure.

 

[MikeC]

A cople of times a year they pump the parlor lagoon at the dairy and shoot it on a couple of pastures with big , I mean really BIG0 sprinkler heads. They don;t fertilize those fields but the K is getting rediulously high on them.

K or P? Chicken litter usually raises the Phosphorus content.

Just double checked and it's K. Most dairys have the problem where they spread manure.

Didn't know that. An overabundance of K should not be a big problem because it's easily leached from the soil as opposed to P.

May depend on the soil type for even that though.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

A cople of times a year they pump the parlor lagoon at the dairy and shoot it on a couple of pastures with big , I mean really BIG0 sprinkler heads. They don;t fertilize those fields but the K is getting rediulously high on them.

K or P? Chicken litter usually raises the Phosphorus content.

Just double checked and it's K. Most dairys have the problem where they spread manure.

Didn't know that. An overabundance of K should not be a big problem because it's easily leached from the soil as opposed to P.

May depend on the soil type for even that though.

with duns area setting on top of lime stone i wonder how much leaching it can do. before it does build up

 

[MikeC]

A cople of times a year they pump the parlor lagoon at the dairy and shoot it on a couple of pastures with big , I mean really BIG0 sprinkler heads. They don;t fertilize those fields but the K is getting rediulously high on them.

K or P? Chicken litter usually raises the Phosphorus content.

Just double checked and it's K. Most dairys have the problem where they spread manure.

Didn't know that. An overabundance of K should not be a big problem because it's easily leached from the soil as opposed to P.

May depend on the soil type for even that though.

with duns area setting on top of lime stone i wonder how much leaching it can do. before it does build up

I thought about that. I do know that P takes forever to leach out. I know some places that got a buildup of P from years of chicken litter and can't even grow a cedar tree. :shock:

 

[dun]

Our fields that are far enough from the parlor that they didn;t get any manure spread on them run in the 400 lbs/acre range. The ones close to the parlor run in the 1100 lbs/acre range. In 5 years they've gone down about 1%. The P is classified as high to very high the K is classifed as extreme.

 

[rouxshortorn]

Our fields that are far enough from the parlor that they didn;t get any manure spread on them run in the 400 lbs/acre range. The ones close to the parlor run in the 1100 lbs/acre range. In 5 years they've gone down about 1%. The P is classified as high to very high the K is classifed as extreme.

what can you seed in these feilds to eat-up some of the P and K ,but don't hurt production or quality of the forage?

 

[dun]

Our fields that are far enough from the parlor that they didn;t get any manure spread on them run in the 400 lbs/acre range. The ones close to the parlor run in the 1100 lbs/acre range. In 5 years they've gone down about 1%. The P is classified as high to very high the K is classifed as extreme.

what can you seed in these feilds to eat-up some of the P and K ,but don't hurt production or quality of the forage?

I have no idea, I just keep reseeding and cutting OG for hay and drilling WW in the fall. One field has a great stand of fescue and we pasture it since you can;t get into it with anything much bigger then a Mule.
I don;t know if it's reduced the P&K but the crabgrass went wild in those fields this year.