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Post by simpletim on Mar 26, 2021 21:10:13 GMT -6
Anyone using it? Happy with it? How much can I safely put down in a with a 1” opener?
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Post by SWMan on Mar 26, 2021 22:18:00 GMT -6
Welcome to the forum. Do you have a link for that fertilizer, who makes it? And what spacing on the seeder?
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Post by Beerwiser on Mar 27, 2021 10:52:42 GMT -6
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Post by bobofthenorth on Mar 27, 2021 15:40:36 GMT -6
Banding elemental sulfur is always a bad idea no matter what the nice salesman told you. Elemental sulfur needs to oxidize to sulfate in order to be plant available. Sulfur and potash get sold all the time to guys who don't really need them. If you're in that category elemental will work fine for you. If not I'd stick to sulfate or get into a broadcast program using elemental. If you broadcast elemental sulfur on your canola stubble (IOW as far ahead of the next canola crop as possible) it likely can work for you.
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Post by ddf on Mar 27, 2021 16:03:07 GMT -6
Banding elemental sulfur is always a bad idea no matter what the nice salesman told you. Elemental sulfur needs to oxidize to sulfate in order to be plant available. Sulfur and potash get sold all the time to guys who don't really need them. If you're in that category elemental will work fine for you. If not I'd stick to sulfate or get into a broadcast program using elemental. If you broadcast elemental sulfur on your canola stubble (IOW as far ahead of the next canola crop as possible) it likely can work for you. I hear this criticism frequently about elemental sulfur. I can see this being a problem with large chunks of 100% elemental. But I haven't seen it create a problem with a product like S15 on our farm yet. It is never deep banded, it is put in seed row only with canola. 10 years of use and not sulfur deficiency shown up yet. |
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Post by bobofthenorth on Mar 27, 2021 16:59:51 GMT -6
S15 is not a pure elemental product.
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Post by SWMan on Mar 27, 2021 22:27:14 GMT -6
I've been using strictly elemental(mostly Tiger 90) since the 90's in a high yield canola heavy rotation. I always put it on in seedrow and sometimes banded in fall with N. We used to see deficiency before doing this but never since. I apply every year about 20-25# and over time it averages out to being adequate available any given year. Recently got into the broadcast large amounts every 3-4 years but that was mainly so I could just get direct loads of 11-52 and avoid blending requirements.
I have no experience with the MST product, but like all these designer products break it into it's cost if you put on straight 11-52/elemental S/etc and it almost always pays to just put on the cheapest form if you can. A pound is a pound is a pound is what I have learned over my years of trial work.
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Post by simpletim on Apr 5, 2021 20:47:31 GMT -6
Yes I am referring to the nutrien mst fertilizer. I am using a 5710 bourgault drill with 1” side band liquid openers. In the previous years I have been putting down 120lbs of s15 in the seed row and 100lbs of 28 side band. Using the 120 lbs of s15 on all my acres. Just got a better deal on the mst fertilizer this year and also like the idea of increasing my phosphate.
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Post by simpletim on Apr 5, 2021 20:50:51 GMT -6
From my understanding s15 is 7.5lbs of elemental sulfur and 7.5lbs of ammonium sulfate. Where mst is 15 lbs of elemental and 1 of ammonium sulfate
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