With 360 SoilScan, you can test your N availability and soil pH to avoid a guessing game. The Corn Nitrogen Need Calculator builds an N recommendation based on your yield goal, corn growth stage, and soil organic matter. You can apply within minutes of measuring your soil!  

Feeding your crop later in the season is key for your crop to reach its yield potential. 360 Y-Drop gives you the flexibility and control to apply N anywhere from V6 to tassel. And location is just as important as timing. “A corn plant acquires more than 60% of its N from a horizontal radius of about 7 inches from the stalk base.” Y-Drops place liquid N at the base of the stalk for rapid uptake.

Central Illinois.

This trial compared several different nitrogen application plans, including a prescription determined through in-season nitrate nitrogen measurement with 360 SoilScan.

By using in-field soil testing equipment, the farmer knew exactly how much N was needed to finish the season and the yield results paid off. In the strip where 150 lb. of nitrogen was applied at V9 per the 360 SoilScan recommendation, the yield was 212 bu/A — the largest yield of the entire trial.

By applying N later in the season — where 125 lb. was applied pre-plant and an application at 100 lb. of nitrogen at V9 with 360 Y‑Drop was used — this grower experienced an advantage of 32 bu/A for split-nitrogen application compared to one-and-done application of 225 lb. of AMS pre-plant.

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Central Illinois.

This side-by-side central Illinois trial compared N timing and placement with 360 Y‑Drop versus a coulter. The coulter application was done at V6 (early June) and the 360 Y‑Drop application at V16 (early July). Both sidedress applications were 150 lb. of N after 100 lb. of N was applied as a base on the whole field, including 30 lb. with the planter (2×2) and 70 lb. of weed and feed worked in with a vertical tillage tool just prior to planting. This yield map shows actual harvest data and yield results.

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Southern Michigan.

This side-by-side trial in Southern Michigan aimed to compare yield impacts of traditional sidedress applications at V6 with a coulter bar with a mid-season N application at V10 with 360 Y‑Drop. The same amount of nitrogen was used for both applications — timing and placement were the only variables.

Historical rainfall totals early in the growing season put much of the N applied at V6 at risk of loss in the environment. In contrast, the V10 application of N with 360 Y‑Drop repositioned N when the corn’s needs were larger.

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