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Lifting pH without lime?

Long term,it makes you wonder where the lime will come from,though. It's not as if someone is making it from scratch and our local lime quarry has exhausted all the limestone in the seam so cotswold lime is being hauled at far greater expense
 

Treg

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cornwall
Can soil pH be lifted by cultural methods, without the addition of lime or the likes?

Drainage? Cultivation?...
Depends on your soil & what it's natural ph should be , most Intensive farming methods lower ph , artificial fertilisers, chemicals etc.
Composting your manure , diversity of plants & longer breaks between grazing should help over long term to restore it's natural balance.
 

Bogweevil

Member
Can soil pH be lifted by cultural methods, without the addition of lime or the likes?

Drainage? Cultivation?...

Yes, great granfer dug marl subsoil (calcareous clay) from pits around the field and spread that - killed him in end but transformed the fields forever. Should be easier with mechanical excavators - I wonder it is not widely done.
 

Macsky

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Highland
Lime is the best investment you will ever make
Its the keystone to all you do
I fully believe this and don’t dispute it, love a good calcium lime, just curious really. There’s not an acre here that wouldn’t benefit tremendously from 2t+, but it’s just so expensive getting good stuff here, so just exploring every option really.
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

This webinar will be...
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