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Northeast, Nebraska | I have done multiple trials on starter fertilizers. Most of the time, there is not much yield difference. For most it is a way to get more nutrients out while making a pass. I at one time quit putting starter on but now have found a mix that I like to put infurrow that is very inexpensive and I can add or change what I need in it according to nutrient and biology results from my soil testing. I make it myself and so far I like what I see. I am a firm believer in biologicals, but there are lots of ones that are what I consider worthless. I believe there is a place for a good amount of them but they have to be placed where they are needed according to soil testing. This year my mix I made started with a dry low ortho product that you mix with water. Comes in 50lb bags and you put a half pound per gallon in. I pulled my tender truck into my shop and my wife used the forklift and lifted them to the top of the tank and I dumped them in while the pump was recirculating. That product also has 2 enzymes in it that help get the biology in the soil working as well. I also added an amino acid product, a humic/fulvic acid product and an OMRI approved biological product. I also added a dry mycorrhizal product in the planter tanks when I filled the planter with starter as I do a lot of tillage and my mycorrhizae levels have been low. Without that product, my starter cost me $3.75 a gallon. The mycorrhizal product costs $10 an acre to add, which I have been using for a few years in trials and have seen great results on that product and trials have even showed up on biological tests in the soil. I put 3 gallons an acre in furrow of this starter product | |
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ROI on starter fert
