Im considering having the local co op deliver and spread lime/ fertilizer in some new plots I am working on. These are the first plots that we could access with a truck. My question is, for you guys that have done this, what is aproximate cost per/acre. Trying to decide wheather to go that route or buy it by the pallet. Got about 6 acres of feild that was used for tobacco 8 years ago. Thanks.
Food Plots Bulk fertilizer lime deliveries
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chebuck
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You are looking at somewhere around 500 a ton for a bulk fertilizer blend. Some co-op may charge on a per acre for spreading others just add it into the cost. Bulk lime mite be hard. Around here you have to get a dump truck load (16-24 tons) to get them to spread it. Check and see if they have pelletized lime. It is relatively cheap compared to the fertilizer at 150 to 200 a ton they can add this to your blend.
Hunter 257W
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A 6 acre field could use as much as 18 tons of lime so you should be able to meet a minimum order for a truck to come out. Around Franklin county it has gotten hard to get a lime truck though. Our CO-OP doesn't have a truck so you have to know a farmer who has a spreader truck and find him at a time when he can get to you. I try to time my liming so that the farmer who works my row crops is liming that part of the land at the same time he does my food plots and pastures. I paid $22 a ton for lime a year ago.
Honestly I don't recall what the CO-OP charges to spread fertilize. We always went and picked up their trailer and got them to load it with bulk fertilize but then did the spreading with our tractor. It's free to use the trailer/spreader that way.
Honestly I don't recall what the CO-OP charges to spread fertilize. We always went and picked up their trailer and got them to load it with bulk fertilize but then did the spreading with our tractor. It's free to use the trailer/spreader that way.
We rent the buggy and spread ourselves, like Hunter 257W mentioned. Check with your local CO OP because some won't spread food plots, at least not plots within the woods. Many will only spread in open ag fields or pastures.
I ended up buying the bulk based on soil analysis reports. Got the buggy from putnam co. Co op and had it spread in an hour. My ph was 5.8 which was higher than I expected. Report recommended a ton per acre so we got her turned in and beans, peas, corn, sunflower, and egyptian wheat are in the ground.
