Side Dressing Corn Implement

[Fergienewbee]

I'd like to side dress my corn in my food plots. I'm looking for some suggestions. Here's what I have for implements: a 30 gallon sprayer with a diaphragm pump, a a PTO-driven broadcast spreader and a tool bar.

Broadcasting Urea into standing corn will burn it, correct? I can watch the weather and run a row along the side of each row by hand and let the rain water it in, but that's a lot of work. I'd like to find something I can do with the tractor.

I think it would be beyond my mechanical abilities to modify any fertilizer canisters to mount on a tool bar and probably expensive besides.

Do they make a single stream sprayer tip and could I spray liquid nitrogen beside each row?

If anyone has any ideas (are you reading Delta Red?),I'd appreciate your input.

Larry

 

[Tim(nj)]

Does the sprayer have booms? If so you can get drop lines with nozzles on the ends that you can dribble liquid fertilizer along the rows.

 

[Fergienewbee]

Yes, my sprayer has booms. From a video, I assume you only need to do the middle of the rows, correct?

Larry

 

[Tim(nj)]

Some people do the middles, some like to run it a few inches from the row. I think it depends on what you are putting down, as well.

 

[Leroy]

I think that fertiliver that should be 28% would ruin your pump. you need a roller pump bade for crocivies?. Rust makers.

 

[Tim(nj)]

Not necessarily. Some of the newer diaphragm pumps are made of corrosion-resistant material to handle glyphosate and other corrosive chemicals.

 

[Paul swpa]

I Have been top dressing/side dressing corn with a spin spreader and urea for years now. Usually try for just before a rain so the urea doesn't go off in the air. Never had a problem with it burning the corn, at least not to the extent the bto that does the farm beside me has done with liquid fertilizer. I have done it anywhere from the corn just reaching knee high to almost three feet tall.

 

[Leroy]

I think that can depend on row width, 30" could get by bareley on centers, 20" ideal on centers, 40" not good as should be within 10". But things have changed in last 10 years since I quit farming.

 

[hd6gtom]

most people I know go to their local fert dealer and hook up to a 5 knife NH# applicator and take it home. Used to cost 50 cents an acre to rent, puts your nitrogen down to the roots where it is needed.

 

[C. Amick]

I grow small patches of corn and spread granular fertilizer down each row by hand then run the tractor mounted cultivator through a few times. I then go through and hoe it. I don't have a side-dresser attachment for my cultivator, but if I did I would use it. What kind of tractor do you have?

 

[Don-Wi]

Last summer we had done really poor looking corn so we got some fertilizer my brother uses for his pumpkins. It's made to be used for hydroponics and can be sprayed on the plants (can actually be mixed with roundup) and the plants will absorb it through the leaves. It worked to help perk it up some, but it was too little too late as it was tassled out within a week of spraying. Still helped it green up though as it was pretty yellow. I forget what it was called but we just call it the blue juice.

Donovan from Wisconsin

 

[Fergienewbee]

CAmic;

I have a TO-30 set up to plant on 26" rows. I have a 9-shank cultivator and I can also use my small rototiller to work fert in.

hd6gtom;

I don't think they would rent me the equipment for 5o cents; an acre is about all I have. These are food plots.

Larry

 

[Part Time Pete]

The guy I worked for in high school built a frame for his Oliver 77 to carry two 55 gallon drums for liquid nitrogen. He used a PTO driven pump discharged to four 1/2" hoses set a few inches above the ground along side the rows, so the liquid wouldn't get on the leaves (it was low pressure, so the liquid would just drizzle out along the rows). You have the sprayer, so you would just have to build something to get the hoses at the right location and elevation
Pete

 

[mazemeister]

the simplest would be use your broadcast spreader before a rain. or if it doesn't rain, cultivate it in. (you didn't say you had a cultivator, but you could get one, then you'd have more to do with the tractor!)
if you broadcast it into 1 to 2 foot tall corn and it doesn't get washed off right away, it might burn the leaf edges. the corn will grow right out of it, won't hurt anything in the long run.