So you already know that the correct answer is to get a soil sample, but you want another answer anyway. Do you intend to pick from the wild ass guesses that people may give here and decide which one you like best? I don't understand this logic, but I will humor you and leave a crazy guess. Cereal grains require more nitrogen than phosphorus or potassium, remember it's more closely related to members of the grass family which require lots of nitrogen. For example, the results of our last soil samples recommended 80-40-40 per acre for winter food plots. Spreading 17-17-17 won't get you there. If you spread enough triple 17 to fulfill the nitrogen requirement, then you're way heavy on the P and K.

If I were spreading 17-17-17, then I would throw in a bag of two of 34-0-0 for good measure.


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