Paid back at 6.5 bushels. Everything after is yours.

A micronutrient supercharger pack: zinc, manganese, boron, cobalt, molybdenum, and Ascophyllum nodosum kelp extract, carried on the same orthophosphate 3-18-18 base. Straight 3-18-18 is the phosphorus and potassium alone. The plus is that micronutrient and kelp pack riding with it, which is why it is the grade AgriTec's legume programs are written around.

Because of two micronutrients in the plus package. Cobalt and molybdenum are cofactors for biological nitrogen fixation and nitrogen metabolism, so on a legume they help the crop use nitrogen it is already fixing rather than supplying more. A corn plant has no nodules and gets nothing from that pair. Boron matters at flowering and pod set, which is where legumes set yield. The phosphorus and potassium underneath serve every crop; the plus package is aimed at the ones that fix their own nitrogen.

This is the buy-now product. 3-18-18+ is in stock at current price-sheet pricing and ships now, freight included east of the Rockies. The four-level Performance Series on the prebuy page is a separate thing: it ships starting October 1. If you need product on the ground this season, buy from this page.

On beans, effectively yes: the published Mid-South program runs it once, at planting, and that is the pass it is built for. On alfalfa and hay it works across the season. AgriTec's published programs put it in at establishment at 7 gal/ac, again at green-up at 2 gal/ac alongside the nitrogen pass, and at 1 to 2 gal/ac as a corrective on a thin stand. The Whitesboro producer fed it back at 4 gal/ac five days after baling and had the second cutting growing. On a crop you cut more than once, it earns its place more than once.

AgriTec's published Mid-South soybean program runs 5 to 7 gal/ac at planting, in-furrow or 2 by 2. The alfalfa stand-longevity program runs 7 gal/ac at establishment. Those are the program rates, not your rates. Upload a soil test on this page and we will size it to your phosphorus, potassium, and pH instead of to a published average. The read costs nothing.

At the 6 gal bean rate, 3-18-18+ costs $70.50 an acre delivered, so it covers itself at 6.5 bu an acre with $11 beans. On alfalfa at 7 gal it is $82.25 an acre and 0.38 tons an acre with $220 hay. That is arithmetic on the crop price, not a prediction: it is what the gain would have to be, and whether you get it depends on your soil, your season, and your management. Put those figures next to the trials and the grower reports on this page and judge it yourself.

Straight 3-18-18 is $10.73 a delivered gallon and 3-18-18+ is $11.75, so the package costs $1.02 a gallon, about $6.12 an acre at the 6 gal bean rate. What that buys is the zinc, manganese, boron, cobalt, and molybdenum plus the kelp extract, in the same tank on the same pass. On a legume specifically, the cobalt and molybdenum are cofactors for biological nitrogen fixation, which is work the base analysis cannot do on its own. If your soil test shows those micronutrients are already adequate, say so when you send it in and we will tell you straight that the plain grade is enough.

Phosphorus is immobile in soil, so roots have to physically reach it. Placing it in the row instead of broadcasting it reduces soil contact and fixation and improves how much of it the crop gets in the first season, which is what WSU Extension and the OSU Soil Fertility Handbook both describe. The equivalency calculator on this page prices your own dry program against the liquid equivalent so you can see the difference in dollars rather than in adjectives.

It replaces the at-planting dry phosphorus and potassium, because 3-18-18+ carries the P and K in orthophosphate form and places it in the row instead of broadcasting it. It does not replace your calcium or pH correction. If the soil test says base saturation is short, lime or Pro-Cal still has to happen, which is why the published legume programs run a calcium pass underneath the starter rather than instead of it.

It goes in the row at planting, in-furrow or 2 by 2, which is the placement the published legume programs use. It is a low-salt orthophosphate liquid, which is what lets it sit near the seed. On mixing: compatible with any fungicide or herbicide. Jar test before mixing., and the complete mix, water quality, concentrations, and order of addition all need reviewing first. The one hard rule is calcium: Pro-Cal and Advanced-Cal must never share a tank with a phosphate product, and this is a phosphate, so calcium runs as its own pass.

Run it against yourself. A 55 gallon drum covers roughly nine acres of beans at the program rate, which is enough to put a treated strip beside an untreated one and read the difference off your own combine monitor. Several of the growers quoted on this page started exactly that way. Retest the soil nine to twelve months on and you will see the movement on paper as well as in the field.

It is in stock and ships now, freight included east of the Rockies. AgriTec's programs ask you to coordinate delivery 3 to 7 days ahead of the window you are applying in, so book the date with the order rather than ordering the week you want to plant. If you are sending a soil test first, a custom protocol comes back in 2 to 4 business days at no charge, so leave room for that too.

Five gallon jugs at $210, 55 gallon drums at $910, and 275 gallon totes at $3,230, all delivered with freight included east of the Rockies. Tanker loads are call-to-order at (833) 247-4832 because the freight and scheduling get quoted with the load.

No. The sulfur is the dash one in the name: 3-18-18-1 carries it, and so does 3-18-18-1+. This grade is the orthophosphate base plus the micronutrient supercharger pack. If your soil test is short of sulfur, say so when you send it in and we will point you at the grade that carries it rather than selling you this one.