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Anyone ever fertilize pasture with miracle grow?

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#1 ·
May sound like a sill question, but not really. Some are buying bags of the water soluable kind and using pasture sprayer to spray pasture. The bags are big enough to do 5 acres and cost is like 35.00. About have weeds killed out and want to spray meadow we use for hay. I will take 3 bags and it is way, way cheaper than using commercial fertilize. I would think that it would work.
Anyone try it?
 
#27 ·
Cow lagoon? Most cattle around here are raised on pasture, only the hogs and turkeys have lagoons, and it stinks.:pound:
We're just a bit short on pasture from October to May. We have dairies up here which don't have a milk cooler as no cooler built big enough to handle 500-1,000 head. They just park 2 tankers at the milk house. Every dairy farm in the state has to have a sealed storage if there are over so many animals. Some farms lay out miles of at least 8" flexible tubing through ditches and culverts to get it to another farm several sections away. Second pump driven off tractor PTO about half way to give it added boost. Manure haulers are mostly in the 5,000-8,000 gallon range and I know of one dairy which has three 8,500s. Their route is always a one-way loop since two of them can't meet on the town roads. That's a lot of manure!

Martin
 
#28 ·
Nitrogen fertilizer components from the "chemical" forms pretty much come from natural gas= petroleum, correct? Is anyone who uses serious quantities for crops trying to "time the market" storing serious quantities, say of ammonium sulfate, if natural gas prices seem to have dipped, as a hedge against future price inflation? This seems to be about the peak of "peak oil" right now although possibly the fracking of gas may extend relatively cheap nitrogen availability for a while yet. I don't have any acreage or even in-ground garden space, but just to be sure of having a couple years' nutrients for extensive container or raised-bed vegetables I have made a point of trying to stock up on the Miracle-Gro stuff or its generic equivalents like the Ace Hardware label *if* on sale much more cheaply than normal pricing. I've also amended the soil with local composted horse manure but got put off by the last local source blowing off meeting me for an agreed pick-up of his bagged product. Seems reasonably efficient to use the water-soluble stuff on limited plants localized to large pots for application. (Best price I've seen this spring was W-M 5 lb M-Gro for just under $8.)
 
#29 ·
May sound like a sill question, but not really. Some are buying bags of the water soluable kind and using pasture sprayer to spray pasture. The bags are big enough to do 5 acres and cost is like 35.00. About have weeds killed out and want to spray meadow we use for hay. I will take 3 bags and it is way, way cheaper than using commercial fertilize. I would think that it would work.
Anyone try it?
 
#33 ·
Use miracle gro mainly on strawberry beds thru out the season. The rest of the garden gets composted cow manure as does the lawn. Have a smaller manure spreader that is used to lay down the manure.
Out on the farm, manure is the sole fertilizer used. Have a number of large dairy in the area. I only have to pay for the hauling and spreading. Early in the spring as soon as the ground firms up, they spread. Between second and third cutting they spread manure in liquid form. As fast as the bales are pickuped they are there. After about 24 to 48 hours, the sprinklers are started. My fertilizer costs are about 30% of what they would be if bought commercial fertilizer.
90% or more of my hay goes export and everyone seems satisfied . Not a big time farmer, down to a total of 80 acres.
 
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