Effective Top-Dressing Strategies for Corn Using Nitrogen and Potassium Products
14 Aug 242m 22s

Kevin Matthews discusses the process of top-dressing corn using a combination of nitrogen and potassium products.

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00:00 Out here today, we're top dressing some corn. We're using our easy drops, putting out 24 s, which is a nitrogen product with a 3% sulfur. 00:09 We're running Kfl from Nature's at a three gallon rate. We're also running C catt, which is a product by Tiva that helps stabilize that nitrogen 00:19 and gets it into the plant soil better before it can metabolize it easier. We've got both these products out here. 00:25 We're running a 30 gallon rate, we're running an extra three gallons of the plex. This gives us that Potassium That we need. We 00:33 Also, it has some other ingredients in it as well. And combined with the C Catt, It really works good it we're addressing our nitrogen 00:40 and our potassium needs all here at one time. This Is some of our later planted corn and our river Bottoms and, and some of the better 00:47 Corn that we got. Maybe some of the best corn non irrigated. So as you can tell, the corn we've held up due 00:53 to the drought on putting nitrogen on, it's just before talin. It will come, the tassel will come out 00:59 here in the next few days. Two inches of rainfall yesterday on this farm. That's how dry we were. 01:04 We were able to get right back in the field, not make a mess, not make a track or anything after a two inch rainfall. 01:10 That's just, that's hardly unheard of around here. This farm had not had no rain on it since about the 8th of May of any accumulation, maybe a half inch. 01:22 This is good dirt. It's unlike our red duck land that we have, but, uh, we've got some corn that'll get chopped 01:28 for silage this week because this burn up. It's not because we wanted it to be for silage. And then we've got this corn here. 01:35 Um, we've got a good bit of it that looks good in our river bottoms as well. Of course our irrigated is phenomenal this year, 01:43 but, uh, got a lot of dry land corn that's really bad in North Carolina, but just kind of what we do right here, 120 foot wide. 01:52 So each easy drop services, two rows of corn and we're only banding it on one side of the row. So that drop is servicing two rows 02:00 as it goes through the field. It's extremely lightweight and that's how we're able to do the 120 foot. 02:05 Of course, there's a lot of options out there as well, but that shore enough gets that nature's and Tiva product right down in there like we like 02:13 and our 24 s nitrogen that MeHeron provides us. So y'all stay safe.

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