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Currently, price differences between the nitrogen fertilizers are less than the historical spreads. On March 31, prices were $.37 per pound for ammonia, $.41 for urea, and $.47 for liquid N. Currently, urea has a $.04 higher price than anhydrous ammonia, compared to a $.09 historical average.
How did the costs stack up? Fertilizer costs per pound of nitrogen are noted in Table 4. In the trial, an estimated 1.1 gal. was used to water each plant. The resulting cost to fertilize one plant varied from 0.9 to 9.4 cents (Figure 2). It should be noted that our cost