Custom application · Clinton, Clay and DeKalb counties
We put it on the ground and we tell you the day we did it.
Dry fertilizer, anhydrous, ag lime and spray, applied by the acre on your ground with our equipment and our operators. Twenty-eight years, one shop, and a floater that leaves from Lathrop.
The four operations
Read across. Every one of them has a different window, a different rate basis and a different amount of notice, and mixing them up is where most of the phone calls start.
Dry fertilizer
Spread by floater, variable rate available
- Window
- Late fall after harvest, and the pre-plant run in March and April.
- Rate basis
- $9.50 per acre
- Lead time
- Three to five days in the shoulder, ten in the pre-plant rush.
- Bring us
- Field boundaries and a soil test less than four years old.
Anhydrous
Knifed in, our bar and our tanks
- Window
- Fall once soil at four inches holds under 50 degrees. Spring pre-plant.
- Rate basis
- $14 per acre
- Lead time
- A week, and it moves with the soil temperature, not the calendar.
- Bring us
- Your target rate per acre and where the field entrance is.
Ag lime
The tonnage job. Book it earliest.
- Window
- Any time the ground carries a loaded truck. Best after harvest.
- Rate basis
- $31 per ton spread
- Lead time
- Three weeks in fall, longer if the quarry is behind.
- Bring us
- A soil test with pH by field, not one number for the whole farm.
Custom spray
Burndown, post, fungicide
- Window
- Weather, not season. We go when the wind sits under 10 and the forecast holds.
- Rate basis
- $8.75 per acre
- Lead time
- Same week, often next day. Cancelled runs are not billed.
- Bring us
- The label you want run and any sensitive crop within a half mile.
Prices are per acre on fields over 40 acres, spread rate under 300 pounds. Product is billed separately at our landed cost plus handling, and it is on the ticket as its own line so you can see it.
Whether the ground is fit is our call, and we will lose the day to say so.
- Too wetA floater in soft ground makes ruts you will feel for three seasons. We would rather come Thursday.
- Too much windOver 10 miles an hour we stop spraying. Drift onto a neighbor's beans is not a risk we take on your behalf.
- Soil too warm for anhydrousPut it on at 60 degrees and you are paying to feed the bacteria. We watch the four-inch temperature and call you when it breaks.
- Standing crop or livestock in the fieldObvious, and it still happens twice a year. Tell us if a gate got moved.
- Nothing we can do about the quarryLime lead time is theirs, not ours. When they slip we call you the day we hear it rather than the day you notice.
Shot 1The floater in the field with the boom-less spread pattern visible behind it, shot low into late afternoon light off the section road.
Shot 2Lime truck tipping into the spreader at the field entrance, dust catching the sun, operator in frame.
Shot 3A soil probe and a labelled sample bag on a tailgate. Close, plain, no styling.