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<blockquote data-quote="Cab-over Pete" data-source="post: 6802159" data-attributes="member: 416"><p>TNV is a nonsensical figure dreamed up by salesmen. Ignore it entirely.</p><p></p><p>NV is the crucial figure together with reactivity if you can get that and how fine bulk lime is ground to. The “fineness” is critical and can make a potentially really good aglime into something very mediocre if it’s too coarse.</p><p></p><p>If your buying bulk ground lime it will be, by law, AT LEAST 40% 150 micron dust as fine as the g-lime.</p><p></p><p>Your g-lime seems to be £140/t once you have spread it. So an application rate of 150kg costs £21 per acre to lift pH, as you say, 0.3</p><p></p><p>If you put 1t/acre of bulk ground lime on @£25/t/acre @ 40% fine dust, that is AT LEAST 400kg of fine dust costing £10. Plus you’ve got the rest of the 600kg working too, a percentage of which could well be less than 150 micron just like the legally required 40%. It will easily lift the pH by 0.5</p><p></p><p>Do not listen to the sales crap that tells you g-lime will work faster or better. It’s quite simple......</p><p></p><p>IT ABSOLUTELY CANNOT WORK FASTER OR BETTER, IT IS EXACTLY THE SAME STUFF.</p><p></p><p>I’ve just had this very conversation less than an hour ago with a 30 year customer who bought some because he didn’t want to use any other contractor and also the salesman convinced him it would work out cheaper and that g-lime would work better. In five years time his pH status will be in a mess unless he puts on AT LEAST 250kg/acre (600+/ha) every year. He’s been advised, by the salesman, to use 150kg and not told to apply each year. No wonder he thinks it’s cheaper.</p><p></p><p>If your land has been using a regular x amount of kgs/ha of bulk lime over a period of years then it’s likely it will always need that amount, whether that’s in bulk lime or in g-lime.</p><p></p><p>It’s not complicated. It won’t work better, because it cannot work better. It’s exactly the same stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cab-over Pete, post: 6802159, member: 416"] TNV is a nonsensical figure dreamed up by salesmen. Ignore it entirely. NV is the crucial figure together with reactivity if you can get that and how fine bulk lime is ground to. The “fineness” is critical and can make a potentially really good aglime into something very mediocre if it’s too coarse. If your buying bulk ground lime it will be, by law, AT LEAST 40% 150 micron dust as fine as the g-lime. Your g-lime seems to be £140/t once you have spread it. So an application rate of 150kg costs £21 per acre to lift pH, as you say, 0.3 If you put 1t/acre of bulk ground lime on @£25/t/acre @ 40% fine dust, that is AT LEAST 400kg of fine dust costing £10. Plus you’ve got the rest of the 600kg working too, a percentage of which could well be less than 150 micron just like the legally required 40%. It will easily lift the pH by 0.5 Do not listen to the sales crap that tells you g-lime will work faster or better. It’s quite simple...... IT ABSOLUTELY CANNOT WORK FASTER OR BETTER, IT IS EXACTLY THE SAME STUFF. I’ve just had this very conversation less than an hour ago with a 30 year customer who bought some because he didn’t want to use any other contractor and also the salesman convinced him it would work out cheaper and that g-lime would work better. In five years time his pH status will be in a mess unless he puts on AT LEAST 250kg/acre (600+/ha) every year. He’s been advised, by the salesman, to use 150kg and not told to apply each year. No wonder he thinks it’s cheaper. If your land has been using a regular x amount of kgs/ha of bulk lime over a period of years then it’s likely it will always need that amount, whether that’s in bulk lime or in g-lime. It’s not complicated. It won’t work better, because it cannot work better. It’s exactly the same stuff. [/QUOTE]
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