Boomer, when I was farming, I used dry fertilizer on my corn. That was about 25 years ago. I would put starter fertilizer in the row, spread some more, and then after the corn was up, and maybe 6 inches tall, I would put urea on. I'd try and time it, and put it on right before a rain in order for it to go into the ground.
There's also a lot of chicken litter used here as fertilizer, and the local Amish and Mennonite dairy farms spread liquid manure on their crop fields. The smell is awful, but I guess they don't mind.
