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Most Important time to fertilize - Fall or Spring
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<blockquote data-quote="Stocker Steve" data-source="post: 110559" data-attributes="member: 1715"><p>The standard university advice is to split fertilizer into two appliciatons in the spring and one in the fall. That is poor advice with today's N2 costs.</p><p>The typical MIG advice is to plant clover and fertilize 30 days before you need the feed. That is a little too general with todays N2 costs.</p><p>All forages vary in their response (lbs of forage per lb of fertilizer) at a given point in thier growth cycle. For my pastures (which are mostly blue grass and only has a fair reponse to N2) and good grass hay selling at $40 to $50 per ton, I can only afford to apply N2 in the early spring.</p><p></p><p>I stock about 600 lbs per acre in the spring to keep up with all the grass. It is cheaper for me to buy some hay or hay stumpage in the summer and fall rather than buying N2. Local hay prices just do not reflect the current input costs...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stocker Steve, post: 110559, member: 1715"] The standard university advice is to split fertilizer into two appliciatons in the spring and one in the fall. That is poor advice with today's N2 costs. The typical MIG advice is to plant clover and fertilize 30 days before you need the feed. That is a little too general with todays N2 costs. All forages vary in their response (lbs of forage per lb of fertilizer) at a given point in thier growth cycle. For my pastures (which are mostly blue grass and only has a fair reponse to N2) and good grass hay selling at $40 to $50 per ton, I can only afford to apply N2 in the early spring. I stock about 600 lbs per acre in the spring to keep up with all the grass. It is cheaper for me to buy some hay or hay stumpage in the summer and fall rather than buying N2. Local hay prices just do not reflect the current input costs... [/QUOTE]
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