Good concept, be even better for you if you applied a nitrogen stabilizer which growers do here in Australia - Enhance Max is added at 3% of the nutrient applied. We actually make Enhance Max in Bakersfield California.
What is the distance the plowing knife goes into the soil? Is there a mechanism to close soil opening after injecting the aqua ammonia? Can you estimate the loss of ammonia during the injection process? Thank you.
We are normally injecting it 6”-7” deep. With anhydrous ammonia, closing discs are needed because anhydrous is a gas. With Aqua Ammonia nothing is needed as long as the soil crumbles enough to cover the trench back up. There is virtually no loss of product when injecting deep enough to cover the trench with loose soil. We use a nitrogen stabilizer to hold the nitrogen in the soil until the corn can take it up.
The Andersons recently changed the formulation within the last year. It is now 30% Nitrogen instead of 24.5%. It is 2.4 units of Nitrogen per gallon. For example, 83.3 gallons per acre is 200 units of N. Aqua is still ammonia so it burns any plant tissue it touches. I would not advise top dressing with it.
Equipment and labor is expensive and would not be financially sustainable to have two of everything. All equipment that is used on conventional fields is thoroughly cleaned before entering organic fields. I have several pieces of equipment that are only used in organic fields and adding more when I can. The organic market would not last long if there was a rule that said all or nothing. Actually, you would probably have more fraudulent “organic” imports because of less domestic US organic grain. The USDA is very strict on the NOP rules and most US farmers stick to them. It takes twice the dedication and skills to be an organic farmer as a conventional farmer. No farmer is going to jump all in without trying some acres for a few years first. Some farmers get into organic and realize it’s not for them.
Would it be possible to visit you to discuss the management aqueous ammonia in your farm? We are interested to produce and distribute aqua ammonia in our region. Thank you.
@@INOrganicFarmer We are from the Province of Quebec (Canada). We imported until last year 90% of our fertilizers from Russia. We are looking to build small green ammonia plant close to the the end-users. At the present time, ammonia (anhydrous or aqueous) has not been used since 2013 in our region. It is however used in the Canadian Prairies with 25% of the N-fertilizer being ammonia. Talking to the fertilizer distributors in our region, they are reluctant using ammonia due safety concerns. Possibly aqua ammonia would be more acceptable but the volume to handle for the same nitrogen content is much greater. We believe in green ammonia using relatively cheap hydroelectricity in our province to produce green hydrogen as opposed to using steam methane reforming (SMR) to produce hydrogen. We also believe that going further along the chain of production converting ammonia to urea or ammonium nitrate is not an economically viable solution for a small scale plant located near the end-users. This is the reason we were interested to learn from you, an active farmer, the reason to go with aqua ammonia as opposed to anhydrous ammonia or urea for example. If you can pass along the best person to contact at "The Andersons", we would greatly appreciate. Thank you very much for your cooperation and thank you for sharing your nice and instructive videos.
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Good concept, be even better for you if you applied a nitrogen stabilizer which growers do here in Australia - Enhance Max is added at 3% of the nutrient applied. We actually make Enhance Max in Bakersfield California.
Thanks for the information! I’ll check into that!
What is the distance the plowing knife goes into the soil? Is there a mechanism to close soil opening after injecting the aqua ammonia? Can you estimate the loss of ammonia during the injection process? Thank you.
We are normally injecting it 6”-7” deep. With anhydrous ammonia, closing discs are needed because anhydrous is a gas. With Aqua Ammonia nothing is needed as long as the soil crumbles enough to cover the trench back up. There is virtually no loss of product when injecting deep enough to cover the trench with loose soil. We use a nitrogen stabilizer to hold the nitrogen in the soil until the corn can take it up.
@@INOrganicFarmer Thank you very much for your answer..
What percent are you using? How many units per gallon, and can it be used to top dress wheat with stream bars?
The Andersons recently changed the formulation within the last year. It is now 30% Nitrogen instead of 24.5%. It is 2.4 units of Nitrogen per gallon. For example, 83.3 gallons per acre is 200 units of N. Aqua is still ammonia so it burns any plant tissue it touches. I would not advise top dressing with it.
I don't get that - how come the same farm can operate conventional and organic farming ?
Equipment and labor is expensive and would not be financially sustainable to have two of everything. All equipment that is used on conventional fields is thoroughly cleaned before entering organic fields. I have several pieces of equipment that are only used in organic fields and adding more when I can. The organic market would not last long if there was a rule that said all or nothing. Actually, you would probably have more fraudulent “organic” imports because of less domestic US organic grain. The USDA is very strict on the NOP rules and most US farmers stick to them. It takes twice the dedication and skills to be an organic farmer as a conventional farmer. No farmer is going to jump all in without trying some acres for a few years first. Some farmers get into organic and realize it’s not for them.
@@INOrganicFarmer thank you for your explaination. It make more sense to me now
Where did you get that nurse tank?
It’s a loaner from The Andersons. They custom fabricated the arm specifically for those aqua wagons.
Is that tanker not needing a vapor recovery line?
No it does not.
Would it be possible to visit you to discuss the management aqueous ammonia in your farm? We are interested to produce and distribute aqua ammonia in our region. Thank you.
Where are you from? The best option would be to contact The Andersons directly.
@@INOrganicFarmer We are from the Province of Quebec (Canada). We imported until last year 90% of our fertilizers from Russia. We are looking to build small green ammonia plant close to the the end-users. At the present time, ammonia (anhydrous or aqueous) has not been used since 2013 in our region. It is however used in the Canadian Prairies with 25% of the N-fertilizer being ammonia. Talking to the fertilizer distributors in our region, they are reluctant using ammonia due safety concerns. Possibly aqua ammonia would be more acceptable but the volume to handle for the same nitrogen content is much greater.
We believe in green ammonia using relatively cheap hydroelectricity in our province to produce green hydrogen as opposed to using steam methane reforming (SMR) to produce hydrogen. We also believe that going further along the chain of production converting ammonia to urea or ammonium nitrate is not an economically viable solution for a small scale plant located near the end-users. This is the reason we were interested to learn from you, an active farmer, the reason to go with aqua ammonia as opposed to anhydrous ammonia or urea for example.
If you can pass along the best person to contact at "The Andersons", we would greatly appreciate. Thank you very much for your cooperation and thank you for sharing your nice and instructive videos.
Send me an email and we can talk some more. I don’t want to give out contact information on TH-cam. inorganicfarmer@gmail.com