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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 1497517" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>You will probably see a difference for a little bit. Foliar feeding has its place but what I have a problem with are some of the salesmen have wild claims about its effectiveness. One of my neighbors was a distributor and tried to get me to use his product and claimed at a cost of $6/acre would do the same as conventional fertilizer. He gave me a few jugs of his product and told me that some of my neighbors swore by it and were all using it. After talking to them I learned he had given them the same spill and that was using it and I swore by it. We all had a good laugh over this but not wanting to miss I did give it a try and applied it in bands with control strips between it. The sprayed strips did green up but this was very short lived and after looking at the ingredients I figured I could accomplish the same thing with iron at a cost of $0.50/acre but this is short lived as well. </p><p></p><p>Where I think it has its place is if you use it within two weeks of cutting your hay. Just like with produce foliar feeding will give a short burst and increase photosynthesis which will increase sugar production thus enhancing the eye appeal and nutritional value. I think it might be useful where you have a crop of hay that you haven't been able to cut due to weather conditions and is going backward. A shot of this stuff might boost the food value of an otherwise sorry hay cutting. May not, but I don't think it would hurt. Just can't see using it in place conventional fertilizer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 1497517, member: 4362"] You will probably see a difference for a little bit. Foliar feeding has its place but what I have a problem with are some of the salesmen have wild claims about its effectiveness. One of my neighbors was a distributor and tried to get me to use his product and claimed at a cost of $6/acre would do the same as conventional fertilizer. He gave me a few jugs of his product and told me that some of my neighbors swore by it and were all using it. After talking to them I learned he had given them the same spill and that was using it and I swore by it. We all had a good laugh over this but not wanting to miss I did give it a try and applied it in bands with control strips between it. The sprayed strips did green up but this was very short lived and after looking at the ingredients I figured I could accomplish the same thing with iron at a cost of $0.50/acre but this is short lived as well. Where I think it has its place is if you use it within two weeks of cutting your hay. Just like with produce foliar feeding will give a short burst and increase photosynthesis which will increase sugar production thus enhancing the eye appeal and nutritional value. I think it might be useful where you have a crop of hay that you haven't been able to cut due to weather conditions and is going backward. A shot of this stuff might boost the food value of an otherwise sorry hay cutting. May not, but I don't think it would hurt. Just can't see using it in place conventional fertilizer. [/QUOTE]
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