[AT] History Exam, now kid memories

[charlie hill]

John,  I think they probably don't need to use near as much fertilizer up 
Ralph's way as we do here.  At least that is what I've heard.

Ralph I take that the PH of your land is pretty near neutral and not acid 
like ours is?  That is why we have to use lime.. to raise the PH.

I was in eastern VA last week cleaning out some tanks for a fertilizer 
company in Haynesville.   Two of the tanks were 54% P2O5 (phosphoric acid) 
tanks.  They hadn't been cleaned out in 14 years and had about 18 inches of 
gpysum/acid sludge in the bottom.  Man what a nasty job.   Most of the 
farmers up that way tend corn, wheat, barley and soy beans.  The acreage 
seems to be fairly large.  It was bean planting season and the guys were 
comming in for their seed beans.  It was amazing to see the old trucks they 
were still driving.  52 Chevy 2 ton, 59 Ford 2 ton, etc.

The dealer had just about finished up with fertilizer season and all of his 
trucks were in the yard.  There were eight 10 wheel liquid trucks sitting 
out front.  I guess he keeps his dry trucks out back or somewhere else.  I 
didn't see any.

Charlie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] History Exam, now kid memories


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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Hall" <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 7:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] History Exam, now kid memories
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>> Hey Ralph, got a question for you. How do they apply fertilizer in the 
>> big
>> wheat growing regions. We quit doing it with the drill over 20 years
>> ago--seems to me the it was to slow however a lot more accurate than a
>> apreader.
>>  Also, how do they apply lime? The trucks we use only hold 8 tons--thats
>> about enough to go over 8-12 acres on average. Can't quite figure out how
>> that would work in a several hundred acre field!
>
> John, most fertilizer is applied with the seeding operation here. I'm a
> little behind the times and I put my nitrogen on as anhydrous either in 
> fall
> or spring before seeding. And then some granular is applied with the seed 
> in
> a split tank air seeder.  Many pull the anhydrous tanks right behind the 
> air
> seeder or air drill now so it is a once over operation. Some are opting 
> for
> liquid fertilizer which is safer than anhydrous but more expensive. It 
> makes
> quite a train of equipment with the air seeder, grain/fertilizer tank, and
> then an anhydrous or liquid fert. tank.
> Lime? Far as I know we don't use it here, at least not on my land.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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