A2B-Lancast«r Farming, Saturday, May 10,1986
Don’t Fertilize Too Soon
Every time planting season
comes around I’m reminded of ole
“Too-soon” McGoon. In days gone
by, Too-soon was well known as a
game bird hunter, a darned near
sighted one. Now unfortunately,
his fame wasn’t for the number of
birds Too-soon would get, but
rather for his style in getting any
at all. Too-soon would go out into
the thickets where he figured
they’d be, then just start firing into
the air outa his 2 barrel. For sure,
this would scare some birds up into
the air. And as if to compensate for
his near-sightedness, Too-soon was
quick at the reloading and quicker
still at the unloading. Quick enough
that the air would be so full of lead
that a bird or two couldn’t help but
fly into some. Pleased, Too-soon
would head home with his kill, but
it sure cost him a heap of birdshot.
“Ah, shot is cheaper than a store
bought chick’n” he’d say. But
times are a-changing’ and they’re
just not making shot as cheap as
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A short time back I ran into
McGoon again. Lo and behold, he
was wearing eyeglasses, or “high
tech specs,” as he called them.
And that wasn’t the only dif
ference. He’s not as quick these
days, but McGoon claims he uses
half the birdshot he used to, and
even gets a couple more birds. It
seems that the glasses were the
reason for the difference. Because
of them he could see better and
didn’t need to part as much air
with lead, when he could count on
parting more feathers. You know,
nobody around here calls him Too
soon anymore, now they’re more
likely to talk about “High-noon”
McGoon.
They tell me its a similar story
with nitrogen fertilizer. Sure you
can pile the nitrogen on the ground
early, that’s just what “Too-soon”
would have done. But there won’t
be any com plants hankering for it
until late June or so, and nitrogen
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moves almost as fast as birdshot.
Loss of incorporated nitrogen
will occur in two ways, both of
which are related to soil wetness.
The nitrate form of nitrogen will
leach out of reach of the plant roots
when the soil has more water than
it can hold against the force of
gravity. Then water moves down
through the soil and takes with it
anything that isn’t holding on.
Nitrate, because it has a negative
charge, as do the clay particles in
soil, is not attracted to soil and will
easily leach. And it’s that leached
nitrate that finds its way to ground
water wells, yours maybe.
The other loss of nitrogen is
denitrification, the conversion of
nitrate to nitrogen gas in saturated
soil. Saturation is likely to occur in
any area of poor drainage where
water tends to stand after a rain.
Significant loss of nitrogen can
result when the soil remains
saturated at least two days.
Leaching of nitrate out of the
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root zone and denitrification are That same rain may rob you of
processes that can not be directly early applied nitrogen. Is it worth
controlled. However, the potential the extra work to delay application
for their occurence can be reduced of the bulk of nitrogen? Are these
by waiting to apply the nitrogen times when you can afford to fill
near to when the plants are able to the air with birdshot and not have
take it up. Is there really that as many birds to show for it?
much of a chance of nitrogen being McGoon was “Too-soon” because
lost? Just think about how much he was near-sighted, maybe it’s
rain interfers with getting that time we had our management
first cutting of hay off and dried, vision checked!
June Milk Set at sl4*ol
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Middle
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ministrator Joseph D. Shine an
nounced a Class I milk price of
$14.01 per hundredweight for June
1986. This price is down 4 cents
from May and is 39 cents below last
June’s Class I price. Effective with
the May 1986 Class I price, the
Order 4 Class I differential in
creased from $2.78 to $3.03 per
hundredweight in accordance with
the Food Security Act of 1985 and
the subsequent order amendment.
Mr. Shine announced a Class II
milk price of $10.91 per hun
dredweight for April 1986 and a
butterfat differential of 16.0 cents
RATE APPLICABLE TO
5 ANNUAL PAYMENTS
for the month. The Class II price
was down 8 cents from the
previous month, while the but
terfat differential increased two
tenths of a cent.
The June 1986 Class I price and
the April 1986 Class II price are
based on the April 1986 Minnesota-
Wisconsin manufacturing milk
price of $10.98 per hundredweight
at a 3.5 percent butterfat content.
The USDA reported that the
wholesale price of Grade A butter
at Chicago for April was $1.3875
per pound and the nonfat dry milk
price was $.8057 per pound, f.o.b.
plants in the Chicago area.
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