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<blockquote data-quote="Old McDonald" data-source="post: 3163924" data-attributes="member: 47276"><p>bactosoil, I did manage to get out for a few hours, thanks.</p><p></p><p>I disagree that I will "see this coming through". It might happen eventually, but not for practical purposes in the near future. Pattern and sequence recognition is all just theory. It does not work in practice. It cannot when there are a lot of different soil types in a very small area. It might where there is little change in soil type across a minimum of a few hundred acres, and I had areas in Australia like that. There are also many hundreds of square miles in that country where the soil is constant in character e.g. the black soil plains of NW NSW which were not far from where I farmed.</p><p></p><p>As an example (and I cannot show the photograph):-</p><p>To the left side of the photo from about halfway across and extending to the fence is gravel over yellow clay containing a lot of small stones. Further left nearer the camera and towards the highway that runs behind the eucalypts on the neighbouring farm and bordering this field, it becomes very sandy. About 50 yards to the right and in front of the camera is a very dense red clay from the surface to at least five feet depth, whilst behind the camera it is a reasonable sort of a clayey loam, very shallow, and which contained at least 50% stone before I cleared some, and then pure yellow clay underneath with a rare boulder. All this in an area of not much more than 5 acres. </p><p></p><p>Working that land I am able to adjust for the different soil types. A computer based programme cannot do that. </p><p></p><p>BTW, I do not consider soil testing to be expensive. I consider it very cheap in relation to the price of fertiliser. I am well satisfied that I have saved a lot more from being able to buy the fertiliser I know I needed rather than the fertiliser I would otherwise have thought I needed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old McDonald, post: 3163924, member: 47276"] bactosoil, I did manage to get out for a few hours, thanks. I disagree that I will "see this coming through". It might happen eventually, but not for practical purposes in the near future. Pattern and sequence recognition is all just theory. It does not work in practice. It cannot when there are a lot of different soil types in a very small area. It might where there is little change in soil type across a minimum of a few hundred acres, and I had areas in Australia like that. There are also many hundreds of square miles in that country where the soil is constant in character e.g. the black soil plains of NW NSW which were not far from where I farmed. As an example (and I cannot show the photograph):- To the left side of the photo from about halfway across and extending to the fence is gravel over yellow clay containing a lot of small stones. Further left nearer the camera and towards the highway that runs behind the eucalypts on the neighbouring farm and bordering this field, it becomes very sandy. About 50 yards to the right and in front of the camera is a very dense red clay from the surface to at least five feet depth, whilst behind the camera it is a reasonable sort of a clayey loam, very shallow, and which contained at least 50% stone before I cleared some, and then pure yellow clay underneath with a rare boulder. All this in an area of not much more than 5 acres. Working that land I am able to adjust for the different soil types. A computer based programme cannot do that. BTW, I do not consider soil testing to be expensive. I consider it very cheap in relation to the price of fertiliser. I am well satisfied that I have saved a lot more from being able to buy the fertiliser I know I needed rather than the fertiliser I would otherwise have thought I needed. [/QUOTE]
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