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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 7310540" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>Courtesy Dr. Elaine Ingham </p><p></p><p>"First of all, it really doesn’t matter what kind of clay you have. The local, indigenous biology knows how to deal with it. Don’t add lime, don’t add gypsum. They’ll only exacerbate the problem. </p><p></p><p>"I know I’ve said that if you absolutely have to add lime, that you cannot put more than 100 lbs per acre. Please recognize that most chemistry reports will be recommending 6,000 lbs of lime per acre and 1,000 lbs of gypsum per acre. There is no way that 100 lbs of lime is going to, in any way, seriously influence the flocculation of your clays. I was trying to make the point that it’s just not possible to get soil structure built by adding lime or gypsum. If you add lime or gypsum in at the recommended rate suggested by agronomists, you will just kill all of the good biology in your soil. Typically in about two weeks, all of the excess lime and gypsum will leach out of the soil and into your groundwater, causing a lot of damage to all of the biology downhill from where you applied it. </p><p></p><p>"All you need to do is till in a ton per acre of good compost. Please make sure that the compost is biologically complete. And that should solve your problems with compaction in that clay."</p><p></p><p>Maybe this explains how we "get away with putting no lime on" and why our residue isn't causing an acidifying effect on the soil? <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤔" title="Thinking face :thinking:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" data-shortname=":thinking:" /> It'll be coming up 30 years since this place was limed, and yes it "looks it"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 7310540, member: 63856"] Courtesy Dr. Elaine Ingham "First of all, it really doesn’t matter what kind of clay you have. The local, indigenous biology knows how to deal with it. Don’t add lime, don’t add gypsum. They’ll only exacerbate the problem. "I know I’ve said that if you absolutely have to add lime, that you cannot put more than 100 lbs per acre. Please recognize that most chemistry reports will be recommending 6,000 lbs of lime per acre and 1,000 lbs of gypsum per acre. There is no way that 100 lbs of lime is going to, in any way, seriously influence the flocculation of your clays. I was trying to make the point that it’s just not possible to get soil structure built by adding lime or gypsum. If you add lime or gypsum in at the recommended rate suggested by agronomists, you will just kill all of the good biology in your soil. Typically in about two weeks, all of the excess lime and gypsum will leach out of the soil and into your groundwater, causing a lot of damage to all of the biology downhill from where you applied it. "All you need to do is till in a ton per acre of good compost. Please make sure that the compost is biologically complete. And that should solve your problems with compaction in that clay." Maybe this explains how we "get away with putting no lime on" and why our residue isn't causing an acidifying effect on the soil? 🤔 It'll be coming up 30 years since this place was limed, and yes it "looks it" [/QUOTE]
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