If you are using NDSU Extension’s nitrogen calculators, Extension Soil Specialist Dave Franzen says double check crop and fertilizer prices. Confection sunflower contracts are currently greater than the maximum value of 30 cents per pound option included in the sunflower calculator. “When I developed the calculator, I never thought nitrogen prices would go above $1. Even on the crop price side, I never thought sunflower prices would get above 30 cents per pound of seed, but there are contracts now for 40 cents, plus. What people can do if the nitrogen prices or crop prices are higher than what the calculator says, divide by two.” North Dakota farmers applied much of their fertilizer in the fall, but Franzen says farmers are still making acreage decisions. “Some of these decisions won’t be made until March, so there is still fertilizer that needs to be applied.” Franzen was at the Best of the Best in Wheat and Soybean Research last week.
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