Lime,

[neilo]

Or you could just use a few hundred kilos of prilled lime every year, spread it yourself so you know it's done properly, and the useful bit hasn't blown over the hedge onto the neighbours!

I assume you're having a laugh? Calcium lime put into prills and charged out at 4x the price. Jobsagoodun, for suppliers anyway....

However, I have to confess that I ordered a single 600kg bag today. I have a 10ac field of Winter Barley that has come back at pH 5.9. Soil man wants me to run over it with a lime spreader to do a proper job. My solution is to throw some overpriced prills on for this crop, then address the problem properly in the stubble.
That's the only scenario where I'd consider using prilled lime.

 

[Al R]

I assume you're having a laugh? Calcium lime put into prills and charged out at 4x the price. Jobsagoodun, for suppliers anyway....

However, I have to confess that I ordered a single 600kg bag today. I have a 10ac field of Winter Barley that has come back at pH 5.9. Soil man wants me to run over it with a lime spreader to do a proper job. My solution is to throw some overpriced prills on for this crop, then address the problem properly in the stubble.
That's the only scenario where I'd consider using prilled lime.

Or if your renting land short term?

 

[neilo]

Or if your renting land short term?

It would have to be very short term, probably only grass keep.

 

[Headless chicken]

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This at a ton 500 to the acre . Putting a ton to the acre of ground limestone you may as well pee in the hedge 2 ton at least

Do you sell any of this forage trader? If so how much?

 

[Al R]

I know some people will say when your ploughing down lime your also ploughing it up again the next year but I honestly think the less tillage I do the less pH correction I need to do. Plus I think more Urea over AN reduces PH need.

It was going down for 2 years under clover, plus gets mixed up better when subsoiling. I certainly couldn't see it today when ploughing!
Apparently your neighbours have gone into spreading this year :0

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Do you sell any of this forage trader? If so how much?

We sell there cubicle lime. Will sort a price Monday for you

 

[SilliamWhale]

It was going down for 2 years under clover, plus gets mixed up better when subsoiling. I certainly couldn't see it today when ploughing!
Apparently your neighbours have gone into spreading this year :0

Who are my neighbours?

 

[Al R]

Who are my neighbours?

They do your combining?

 

[SilliamWhale]

They do your combining?

Ah i get you now. Didnt know that

 

[milkloss]

Old thread but I thought the main brains might get an alert
What do you think? Will be for reseeding grass this spring.

Cheers All

 

[steveR]

Which reminded me, I need a bag of prilled Lime for a small job..

Does anyone use the probe ph meters? I bought my first one years ago when I was still growing sugar beet. I walked around with our fieldsman and took a reading at the same point he took the soil samples and they were as near as damn it, identical readings.

The only issue is the ground needs to be properly moist when testing.

 

[Chae1]

Don't need lime, just read a book.

 

[steveR]

Don't need lime, just read a book.

Then compost it.....

 

[Chae1]

Humus

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I need lime can you send me a picture if your tester .I had one years ago

 

[Kevtherev]

@Mounty sells them Derek

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Ok thanks .have you used one ?

 

[Kevtherev]

Ok thanks .have you used one ?

I use the type with the activation fluid don’t think the probe ones are reliable enough.

 

[Kevtherev]

@Cab-over Pete

 

[Mounty]

@milkloss I'd say you would get away with that for grass. They're all similar levels except the last one which is slightly higher. Could put a tonne/acre on if you don't think you'll do it again for a while as it will only get lower over time.