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To: blackdog

**The tankers pull a knife plow behind the rig, knife the soul about a meter deep**

A meter?? In IL I grew up on a farm, farmed until I was 46, continued to live on a farm, until moving to TN, then trucking for a farmer 4 years until cutting back to part time 2 years ago.

I have never applied or seen applied, fertilizer knifed in the ground more than a foot. The deeper, the more it gets leached into the subsoil and lost.


15 posted on 09/06/2023 2:07:23 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Zuriel
I was making it EU metrics friendly. I think the internet gets my point. It wasn't the official setting on the plow. It also depends greatly if you live in a cold or warm area.

Note to any readers....set your manure knifing rig to 18 inches please! For you EU internet farmers, that's only 1/2 meter deep. (Roughly)

17 posted on 09/06/2023 2:13:48 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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