Liquid fertilizer storage

[furrowtickler]

Poly will split out of the blue on ya. Saw it happen this spring. Luckily they were nearby when it happened and were able salvage half.

Regular poly ? Or the heavier fert ones ?

[bobofthenorth]

Stainless for thio and UAN but mild is plenty good for polyphosphate. The phos acid in the poly coats the inside of the mild tank and they'll last essentially forever.

[GDR]

I have no experience at all with liquid fert. Very little here. What is the draw over granular? Price, usability, efficiency?

[STR1]

I have no experience at all with liquid fert. Very little here. What is the draw over granular? Price, usability, efficiency?

If you have the ability on a summer fill program there is a price advantage, and retailers typically use on farm storage because of volume required they will carry it and not invoice until an agreed upon date.
Also doesn’t get lumpy or cake up.

Biggest advantage for us is we blend our own blends on farm, with dry I always was picking up different blends for different crops.

[STR1]

Poly will split out of the blue on ya. Saw it happen this spring. Luckily they were nearby when it happened and were able salvage half.

Yes I can see regular poly tanks splitting just due to the density of the product, it’s much heavier than water.
The tanks I was referring to I believe are made by Poly West (called Fert Tank, pale green ones) made specifically for fertilizer, the walls are about an 1” thick.

[tweety]

What does any of this have to do with marketing?

[Partners]

What does any of this have to do with marketing?

Don't you understand farming?
Is this new to you?

[blackpowder]

I have no experience at all with liquid fert. Very little here. What is the draw over granular? Price, usability, efficiency?

I feel what i may lose on price I make up in cheap section control, cheap parts, easy rate changes or variable, fast fills, triple acres per air tank, no plugging ever, of either system. Airstream has only seed P K. No more hygroscopic AS or urea. And non toxic, just salty water pumped with 5 gpm hydraulics at <60 psi depending.

[farmaholic]

I think a bonus of liquid fert is its easy to place and stays there....no bounce.
Switching would be huge in my opinion.

[tweety]

Don't you understand farming?
Is this new to you?

I do understand farming, but what does liquid fertilizer have to do with commodity marketing? Shouldn't it be under Crop production?