Reduce your sunflower fertilizer bill

With tight profit margins projected in 2018, ag producers generally are cautious about spending on crop inputs. Fertilizer costs can take away profit from the bottom line. Sunflowers mine nitrogen left behind by other crops reducing your fertilizer bill and the efficiency of nitrogen utilization by sunflowers is relatively high. New nitrogen and phosphorus recommendations based on general productivity history and not a yield prediction model is now available. Visit www.sunflowernsa.com/uploads/3/Fertilizing.Sunflower.NDSU.SF713_Feb.2016.pdf to access more info and go to www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/soils/sunflower/ to find a sunflower nitrogen calculator.