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Mounty

Mounty

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Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
Chae1 said:
Ph can go too low for oats, we rent some land that's destined for houses and oats won't grow on it now.

@2t/acre x 2 your looking at £68/acre for lime and spreading based on prices up here.
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Sounds cheap for Aberdeenshire, £17/tonne spread?
 
neilo

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
Dave6170 said:
When we bought our farm and took on another tenancy i wish we just went over the whole place with a ton or 2 in the first year. Rather than going field by field reseeding and liming
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That’s what I did, then retested and reapplied accordingly the next year. It was a big/huge lump to pay out in one go obviously, but my thinking was that the sooner it was corrected, the sooner it would start producing. The rent still had to be paid in full, even if it was growing diddly squat and 2/3 of any fertiliser was being wasted.

Definitely the right decision in hindsight.

There was one 60ac block of pp that was so waterlogged in 2012 that we couldn't access it with a lime spreader, so I used granular lime as a temporary measure. Retesting on that block later showed what an expensive waste of money that exercise was.
 
Dave6170

Dave6170

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Location
Watten, caithness
neilo said:
That’s what I did, then retested and reapplied accordingly the next year. It was a big/huge lump to pay out in one go obviously, but my thinking was that the sooner it was corrected, the sooner it would start producing. The rent still had to be paid in full, even if it was growing diddly squat and 2/3 of any fertiliser was being wasted.

Definitely the right decision in hindsight.

There was one 60ac block of pp that was so waterlogged in 2012 that we couldn't access it with a lime spreader, so I used granular lime as a temporary measure. Retesting on that block later showed what an expensive waste of money that exercise was.
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Been there done that with prilled lime. Never again
 
phil

phil

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Location
Wexford
Cab-over Pete said:
I know I’m biased, but it is still the best return on investment you’ll ever find.
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You are biased, you sell lime :whistle:

Lime is great, it’s amazing how few wet years here can deplete levels, 1150mm so far this year, wet years have pincer style effect
1. Washes out quicker
2. Too wet to get on so gets put back a year
Thankfully dry back end and all that needed it was done on cover crops or stubble
 

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