Dribbling liquid N ??

[shamus]

A neighbor is purchasing his first airseeder and wondering how he can zerotill without too much extra cash tied up. He's thinking about going with a safe amount of seed dress fert.when he seeds and then dribbling extra N in crop. It sounds allright to me but I have no experience to help. I switched to MRB's four years ago pulling NH3 wagon after twenty years of fall or spring banding.

[caseman]

If he had to hire someone to custom apply that N in crop ,say at $4 an acre could he not deep band that himself for less than $4 per acre?

I guess there would be more tractor hrs and disturbing the soil more.

You would need rain soon after dribble banding just like broadcasting
fertilizer after the crop is up.

[danm]

We have a Morris Air Drill with 10" spacing & have been zero tilling for 4 years now. The mid row banders were way to expensive at the time so we dribble band on the shoulder of furrow. We have holders clipped on & let liquid go.
I'll have to say this sure has simplified fall & spring. Your not committed until you sow the crop.Pretty good way to protect yourself from natural spring weather events.

[waller]

Good idea to strap that fertilizer hose down. I have used liquid for years in many ways. It is very corosive that stuff. I used sweeps once and just dragged a 10 in. piece of hose along behind the sweep it worked good. Might just work here to?