GREEN ACRES

Fall Fertilizer Advice for Farmers

Information for this article was taken from the Fertilizer Guidelines for Montana Crops (EB161), which is available at the Chouteau County Extension office.

•MSU Extension has an on-line tool designed to assist producers in determining the optimal N rate. The online tool can be found at www.sarc.montana.edu/AgTools/soiltest.

•Fall soil tests can lead to over or under fertilized fields because soil nitrate can increase or decrease from November to April.

•The historical average available N rate guideline at 2% soil organic matter for dryland winter wheat is 2....