Rate my lime
- Thread starter Macsky
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@Cab-over Pete should know..
Personally I prefer flour type lime that doesn’t spread far (6metres).
I’ve seen lime that looked more like nitram and when we had it tested they said it would probably take a 10 years to break down and do any good! It came down to the company were to tight to put new jaws in the crusher at the quarry!
I ended up paying almost double for the flour type lime because of haulage but I knew it would work almost instantly!
Personally I prefer flour type lime that doesn’t spread far (6metres).
I’ve seen lime that looked more like nitram and when we had it tested they said it would probably take a 10 years to break down and do any good! It came down to the company were to tight to put new jaws in the crusher at the quarry!
I ended up paying almost double for the flour type lime because of haulage but I knew it would work almost instantly!
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Sorry, only just noticed this.
The second is slightly finer than the first, but neither particularly brilliant. A ground lime would be better.
There is only a reactivity figure for the first one and it’s not very high. That will be partly down to the coarse grade. NV figures of 50%+ are ok.
It all depends on pricing. If one is only half as good as the other it doesn’t matter much as long as it’s less than half the price.
You pays your money, you takes your choice.
The second is slightly finer than the first, but neither particularly brilliant. A ground lime would be better.
There is only a reactivity figure for the first one and it’s not very high. That will be partly down to the coarse grade. NV figures of 50%+ are ok.
It all depends on pricing. If one is only half as good as the other it doesn’t matter much as long as it’s less than half the price.
You pays your money, you takes your choice.
Yeah they do milled lime in Torlundy, they said it was used more for animal feeds, and that it would be a good bit more expensive, I was too scared to ask for a price! Been quoted just over £37/t delivered (over 100 miles) for their screened stuff, but it’s only just over 20% through a 150 sieve
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Hhhmmm.....
Not particularly good stuff. The parent rock affects things. If it’s soft it might be better than tests suggest, the opposite if it’s really hard.
Not particularly good stuff. The parent rock affects things. If it’s soft it might be better than tests suggest, the opposite if it’s really hard.
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Ah...... bugger. Bit of the damp stuff in the way.
Cab-over Pete
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Oh ok.
I said I didn’t know your area!
I said I didn’t know your area!
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Bit damp then.
Don’t leave it until it’s really low pH. Better to keep on top of it than give yourself problems.
Don’t leave it until it’s really low pH. Better to keep on top of it than give yourself problems.
- Location
- West Wales
Are you generally quite acidic then with that high of a rainfall?
I’ve had really good arable ground before that would be totally unfesable to try and get above 6-6.2’s as the ground was very acidic. Nitrates travel better and you get more grass growth in a grass/clover ley at 6ph than at 7ph. Grass only with no clover is better suited to 7ph though ideally - obviously this could be totally unfesable.
I think the vast majority of fields around these parts would be quite acidic yes. There is a quarry on the south of the island supplying a coarse mag lime, but having been used quite extensively in the past, ground will be getting too high in mag I reckon, did some samples years ago on a farm here and levels were all high or very high, one was off the chart. Maybe this was large chunks of it left in the sample and ground before analysis skewing the results, don’t know, no idea how long the bigger bits take to break down, if they do at all.
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- West Wales
Is there any really keen arable/dairy boys who are soil testing every 3-4 years etc up your way?
They might be able to tell you that 5.8 is basically the maximum you can get? Utilising and working out how best to utilise the ground you’ve got to work with can often change things dramatically and lime could have had no effect?