Fertilizer

[Bob Ha]

Urea fertilizer 46-0-0 in my area is costing $500 per ton @ 200lbs per acre ($50 per acre) is way too expensive so I'm looking for alternatives. Done some research and found SEA Minerals @ around $3 per acre. Anyone used this type of fertilizer? I would love to hear the pros and cons. I may give it a try on 20 or so acres this year and see how it performs.

http://www.seaagri.com/

 

[bp fick]

I can understand the purported benefits of sea salt and trace minerals in dietary functions, from people to animals, but really struggling to understand how this is a replacement for urea.:confused2::confused2:

 

[rambler]

Wow. Sake oil. Lot of these sorts of products make your crop look greener for a week, but give you no long lasting effect and don't add any yield at all.

While trace minerals can be a good and needed thing on a grass crop - you didn't say what you are growing I'm assuming a grass hay? - you canget those minerals in a higher rate with less killing salt content for less money, so this seems to be a terrible waste of money.

You won't get any nitrogen from the salt product, so there is no comparison, one would not replace or preform like the other one in any ay shape or form.

You need your P, K, & N right, and first your ph proper, before those minor trace monerals will ever have any effect.

Get the big ones right first.

--->Paul

 

[flusher]

Urea fertilizer 46-0-0 in my area is costing $500 per ton @ 200lbs per acre ($50 per acre) is way too expensive so I'm looking for alternatives. Done some research and found SEA Minerals @ around $3 per acre. Anyone used this type of fertilizer? I would love to hear the pros and cons. I may give it a try on 20 or so acres this year and see how it performs.

SeaAgri Inc. - SEA-90: Soil, Crop and Livestock Nutrients from the Sea

So you want to replace a pure-nitrogen fertilizer with something that contains no nitrogen. Discuss.

 

[RalphVa]

Collect your family's urine and dilute it 50%. It's a good 18-0-0 material, and free.

 

[bp fick]

Collect your family's urine and dilute it 50%. It's a good 18-0-0 material, and free.

Ralph, good one. It'd take one big family to pee 20 acres, I reckon.

 

[GGB]

No problem-just drink more beer!!!

 

[Duffster]

No problem-just drink more beer!!!

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Urea fertilizer 46-0-0 in my area is costing $500 per ton @ 200lbs per acre ($50 per acre) is way too expensive so I'm looking for alternatives. Done some research and found SEA Minerals @ around $3 per acre. Anyone used this type of fertilizer? I would love to hear the pros and cons. I may give it a try on 20 or so acres this year and see how it performs.

http://www.seaagri.com/

What are you growing that needs N yet $50 is to much money?

I would look for a farmer that needs manure spreading rights or try NH3.

 

[blueriver]

And your going by your soil sample?

 

[uphere]

Bob - it's SuperBowl weekend - me and the boys should be able to get you a tanker full of "sample" - just let me know where you would like it delivered?