Farming Video | Nitrogen Management with Strip Fresheners Ahead of Planting | XtremeAg

3 Apr 251m 40s

Chad Henderson of XtremeAg shares his strategic approach to nitrogen management ahead of corn planting using a strip freshener. Due to incoming weather, planting is delayed, so he's applying approximately 15 gallons per acre of 28-0-0-5 with humic acid to prep fields. This front-loads nitrogen so that when the planter follows with 8 more gallons, and later a Y-Drop application of 30 gallons, nitrogen requirements for dryland acres are met efficiently. The goal is to have all major nitrogen applications handled in three passes, allowing for better timing, efficiency, and alignment with his overall fertility plan.

00:00:00 Hey y'all, it's Chad Henderson with Extreme Ag and we're doing a little freshening. You know, it's this time of year 00:00:05 and if y'all seen me do one video on a strip fresher, y'all seen me do 40 it seems like, but we're here out here running and man, the weather's nice. 00:00:13 We could actually be planting corn, but we got some weather coming it way this weekend. And man, we just don't wanna get started on that foot, 00:00:20 you know, and get started planting in front of a three or four inches of rain. So we're running this freshener today 00:00:26 and we're putting down about 15 gallon a 28 0 0 5 and some humid. And so that'll get it to 00:00:31 where our planter load will be about 12 gallon. Let's talk about why we're doing this again. So we need that 2025 gallons down to kind 00:00:41 of get our plant off in our, in our plan, in our overall plan to get our plant off on the right foot. So that gets it to where we've got, you know, 50, 00:00:50 60 units out and that's a ample plenty. It's really too much. But in the whole scheme of things, I can run this 00:00:57 and then run my planter and then run my wide drop and I'm finished. And that's kinda what what it revolves 00:01:03 around is being part of a plan. So we'll run 15 gallons now about eight gallon with a planter, and then come back with another 30 gallon 00:01:12 and that'll get all my nitrogen fulfillments, you know, on my dry land acres. And another episode we can talk about the other things 00:01:19 that we will do, you know, phosphorus, potassium, boron, zing, you know, those things. 00:01:24 But the strip freshener here will carry the load of the nitrogen and then it gets us to where our wide drop in our planter is get carrying the 39 00:01:32.615 --> 00:01:34.975