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Stream bar nitrogen application, what is it and how can you use it for greater efficiency and for better corn on your farm?
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I'm coming to you from the hills of Western Iowa with our friend Kelly Garrett. You stream bar applied nitrogen to this corn field.
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It looks very, very good. And you said, this is something I wanna do more of. You did it on 300 acres, probably gonna do more next year.
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There's an agronomic and, and an economic component to it. There is, uh, we picked up some more ground this year
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and also last fall, the weather wasn't conducive to putting on the anhydrous, which is very much what I wanna put it on.
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I don't like spring applied anhydrous. And then with the extra acres there was a fear, so we saved some ground.
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We were prepared to do this on a thousand acres. Mm-hmm. But the spring went very well.
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So we did just save the 300 acres to do it on, because I wanted the education experience. We've learned this from Johnny. Mm-hmm.
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And instead of variable rating, the anhydrous, you know, a high yield area, 80 pounds in a low yield area, 180 pounds
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of anhydrous for an average of 1 40, 1 60 probably we stream bared on 90 pounds, or essentially 30 gallons
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of 28 0 0 5 is what we put on here. Okay. 28% is nothing new. It's just that normally I think it's more just sprayed out
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or it's actually, it's kind of forked in. Am I right? Yes. And so stream bar application, how does it work?
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We, uh, there's different nozzles that get put on different tips basically that get put on the sprayer,
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but instead of spraying out a fan, there's just four streams that come out of it. And then the sprayer drives across the field just
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with four streams of nitrogen coming Out. Four streams per row? Yes. So I'm talking two beside each corn, uh, room.
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Yes. Okay. So your pounds you said was roughly still the same applied amount, or you did decrease it? Uh,
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We did decrease it. It's nine 90 pounds. Okay. Of nitrogen is what's out there. So from an environmental standpoint,
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it gets you potentially off the hook for what might be coming in way of nitrate, uh, reduction legislation, which we, you
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and I both think is coming from an economic standpoint. Your spend on this is, It's a little bit less, you know,
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the liquid nitrogen is more expensive on a per unit of end than the anhydrous. Yep. But still it's a little bit less per acre.
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Anhydrous also has the added component you and I both have talked about in other recordings. It, there's a little bit of destruction
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to soil biology when it goes in. Probably not happening with this not Having, especially when it's spring applied.
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Yeah. You know, fall applied anhydrous when the, when it cools off, things like that. There's a little less destruction.
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Or you could say time to heal, probably both. But with the stream bar, no, there's none of that environmental component
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Stream bar application. You also put a sulfur, uh, into that mix. Yes. And it was just nitrogen sulfur. Yes. All right.
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And so the product is readily available if I go to my local retailer, do they have this product for me to use the
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28 5 5? They Would. Okay. And then as far as what it takes to modify my sprayer, is this something that's aftermarket components available?
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Yes. Yes. They're aftermarket components available. You, you put the tips on, there's varying companies you can go with.
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You know, we, we chose the one that Johnny did, uh, just because of the experience and it worked very, very well
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At West Stage. Uh, we did it at like, you know, four inch corn. Okay. So it's about normal side dressing time in a way.
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Yeah. Yes. And your takeaway is, I was worried that the corn was gonna be yellow. I didn't know what it was gonna look like.
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The corn looks great. Yeah, it looks great. I mean, the corn looks great, so I'm really happy.
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I'm very excited about This. You'll be doing this one more acres next year
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Potentially? Yeah. I, I wanna take it to yield, but yes, I will Stream bar application of nitrogen along
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with a little bit of sulfur in a mix. We did it at V five, V two, V two, V two, V two. And it's gonna be an economic argument.
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It's gonna be an environmental argument. It also might be a labor saving depending on what your timing looks like.
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Argument, exactly. Got it. He's Kelly Garrett coming at you from the Less Hills of Western Iowa.
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