Well I just lost my internet - so will try and continue with this 
In the previous years - The V-3- V-4 sidedress - has been the game in town - That is with 28 - to 30 units applied at planting - then the rest applied with the side dress - We have tried just about every combination of timings there is - some with 3 side dress app's - yet year in and year out - the V- 3 - 4 app has been the most economical -- For my farm -192 to 200 or so of units on N total - that is counting the N at planting 2x2
This year we added a method of appling N in this trial - Hagie bar and 360 Y drops - as you can seen in the data - all app's done with the Hagie N bar were 194 bpa - So again this year - No difference by spilting apps and rates .
The Y- Drops did show a small gain in bpa on all app's -
I guess my question to Ken is - even at a 5 bpa gain and IF you had to hire the Y-drops to appy the N - then was there really any net gain ? I can find this out - but hearing that app charge is around 10 bucks an acre for the app - So at 3.60 corn thats 8 dollar gain per acre - Now to question # 2 - I wonder just how much you lose on the end rows from turning ? As for my Hagie Bar - I just kill them !
Again - Would like to thank everybody for there Help in putting this on ! Big Thanks to the Guys and Gals from Purdue - Great to work with AND I would highly recommend that You other Hoosier farmers check on working with Purdue and do other full field studies ! Its well worth your time - which is not much at all - And it's a lot of fun to do - Beats sitting at the coffee shop ! lol
Have a great day and BE safe !
Ken
Great work my friend!!
Thanks for sharing.
The crew - getting ready to shell off the plot - BUT first Dr. Nieldsen and Doc Camberto - are getting the mositure tester set up then we will calabrate the Integra - The scales are set up on the other side of the trailer .
Starting left to right - Seth , Brandon , Big J. ,Norm and Bob in the red hat -
Dang - Whats taking SSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOO long - Ken is ready to find out what happened after a season's wait - I think there talking about hav'n' another donut !
BTW - We used a seed tender this year to weight out the first few pass's to set the monitor - That worked very well !
This is a picture of the fungicide plot - It was partly cloudy that day - I made the turn and this really poped out - it may be hard to pull out of this picture - but if you look at the right side , then the left - you can see almost to the row where the end of the boom was - the corn on the left had paler leafs - where the right side , the leafs were darker from disease .
Been a fun summer - season with the plots !
