It's getting harder to buy Urea 46-0-0
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 11:19 pm
for the first time ever, I had to have my driver's liscence photocopied and sign a book to buy a ton of Urea/Ammonium Nitrate 46-0-0 fertilizer. I know the guys at the feed mill pretty well, and they know me, but I guess their parent company now requires documentation on all persons who purchase the stuff.
This is getting sad. I had to spend $200 and 3 weeks in night classes to get a spraying liscence for atrazene and some other "controlled" herbicides. I am not allowed to keep anahydrous anymore. Now, if I want to buy nitrate fertilizer, I have to be "put in the system."
Is if it wasn't bad enough that someone stole my cultivator parts I had piled up(didn't notice until I went to use the cultivator), now I am being watched by big brother. Heaven forbid someone steal my fertilizer before I get a chance to put it on. I would be put in jail for letting it get stolen.
Anyone else side dress their corn with urea? It really makes a huge difference in the ear count per stock. I got over 200 dozen out of an acre of pampered silver queen last year. We have also gotten 210 bushel per acre field corn a few years. It is nice to have it come in that thick, but it is soo hard on the old combine! For what it costs in parts to fix the combine, we loose all the extra money from the bumper crop of corn.
This is getting sad. I had to spend $200 and 3 weeks in night classes to get a spraying liscence for atrazene and some other "controlled" herbicides. I am not allowed to keep anahydrous anymore. Now, if I want to buy nitrate fertilizer, I have to be "put in the system."
Is if it wasn't bad enough that someone stole my cultivator parts I had piled up(didn't notice until I went to use the cultivator), now I am being watched by big brother. Heaven forbid someone steal my fertilizer before I get a chance to put it on. I would be put in jail for letting it get stolen.
Anyone else side dress their corn with urea? It really makes a huge difference in the ear count per stock. I got over 200 dozen out of an acre of pampered silver queen last year. We have also gotten 210 bushel per acre field corn a few years. It is nice to have it come in that thick, but it is soo hard on the old combine! For what it costs in parts to fix the combine, we loose all the extra money from the bumper crop of corn.