Farmers / Agriculture DPT you answer please?

Question

If you are farmer or you know about farming,

what do they put in their fields, like in terms of ferlizer,

if yes, how do they buy it, like they buy it in size of big size begs or unbaged truck load size.

Thank you

Answer 1

Yes farmers do use fertilizer; they may also use nitrogen. There are a wide variety of fertilizers. It really depends on what they intend to plant. Big farmers purchase it in gravity boxes from their local mill.

Answer 2

some farmers also use foliar feed [ 20-20-20] you can buy in 20 lb. bags witch you spray over the top of the plant we use about 1-5 lb per acre

Answer 3

after we would take soil samples in our feilds i woul call our fertilizer dealer and tell him what kind of fertilizer we need and the amount of acreage and i would ask for him to spead it for us and then they send out an 18 weeler full of fert and a spreader truck and whatever else we needed such as lime or sulphur and they would have a map of the location of our fields and they would spend a day speading or spraying and the same would go for any type of spray we needed because it was cheaper to buy in bulk and cheaper for them to provide equiptment than for us to buy the equiptment. they would send out the amount of product we need when we asked for it

Answer 4

In the US which is where I farm, most fertilizer is bought in bulk, like the truck load, and spread by the farm service that sell the fertilizer, by their big truck spreaders.  Some farmers use liquid fertilizer, bought and spread by the tank full.  Most of the Nitrogen fertilizer is bought and applied by the tank full                               of Anhydrous Ammonia which is a liquid in the tank and applied as a gas. We also buy chicken litter/manure by the truck load. I've been in other countries that buy their fertilizer by the bag, as we used to in the US.

Answer 5

i personally prefer to use our own composted livestock manure..sure, there's not enough livestock on the ground these days as mega grain farms tear out litte farmsteads to expand their grain operations...

maintain some sense of the use of covercrops and dont push the soil to give more than it cant handle..

use the real deal instead of chemicals...