With harvest season wrapping up in Greene County, farmers and crop producers are in their post-harvest field prep for next spring.

Landus Cooperative Field Agronomist Zach Minnihan says they’ve been applying dry fertilizer on farm fields and are now getting into applying anhydrous. He tells Raccoon Valley Radio that the ammonia applications have been slow, due to tough soil conditions.

“An inch of rain or an inch and a half would be absolutely perfect just to mellow it out a little bit and work easier. But we’re trying to get ammonia on but it really is field by field if the soil wants to work in our favor or not. We’ll have to pull out and go to the next one. So it’s a slow and tedious process.”

He adds that people don’t have to apply anhydrous in the fall, but there are advantages in doing so.

“Anhydrous can kind of harden up the ground a little bit too. You give it time to seek out water so you have a good source of nitrogen out there. It’s basically just to open up your workload in the spring.”

To apply anhydrous, Minnihan says the soil conditions need to be at least 50 degrees and declining to get the best results.