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Minnesota farmer applying in-season fertilizer

Many farmers are applying in-season fertilizers.

Northern Minnesota crop and livestock producer Shayne Isane says there were some nitrogen and urea shortages locally.

“There has been some top-dressing going on, on our farm we were fortunate to get that put on on our spring wheat and other crops. But we definitely do some side-dressing, some 28 percent nitrogen that we stream on when the plants get a little taller.”

He tells Brownfield his spring wheat will receive nitrogen within the next two weeks.

“So we do try to supplement it, we try not to put as much down at the beginning and overload it at the beginning because of our little bit lighter soils we fear losing it. Plus our conditions, it’s not really responsible to try to top front-load that amount of fertilizer.”

Isane and his family grow small grains, corn, soybeans, alfalfa, rye grass, and have a beef cow/calf herd about 20 miles south of the Canada border near Badger.