Magnesium applications

[casemx 270]

Do you spray magnesium on your crops ? We have high magnesium soils but I m lead to believe that this can be locked up and not available to the plant .Do you do tissue tests ? Also do you buy your magnesium in ibcs and what's a rough price ? Thanks

 

[robbie]

At a guess Ibc will now be about £8-900.
A ton on epsotop will be 450ish and the mag content will be double.
Liquid will be mag nitrate with 8% mgo and epsotop mag sulphate with 16% mgo and 32% so3
I use 5kg/ha each pass from T1 -t3 tissue tests do often show mag as low despite my indexes being 2ish.

 

[teslacoils]

Not as much as I used to. The difference was almost entirely cosmetic, and linked more to cold soil.

 

[Flat 10]

Do you spray magnesium on your crops ? We have high magnesium soils but I m lead to believe that this can be locked up and not available to the plant .Do you do tissue tests ? Also do you buy your magnesium in ibcs and what's a rough price ? Thanks

Yes. Epsotop but we are high Ca low Mg soils.

 

[Flatland guy]

I recently paid 675for 1000litres 9% magnesium, 7.5%sulphur. Hope it helps as a rough guide.

 

[robbie]

I recently paid 675for 1000litres 9% magnesium, 7.5%sulphur. Hope it helps as a rough guide.

That's a god price MN has crept up to those prices and mg was usually a bit dearer.

 

[Bigjon44]

Opte mag was £883 from Agrii quote bout a month ago
The sulphate will be a bit cheaper