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<blockquote data-quote="ollie989898" data-source="post: 7843713" data-attributes="member: 54866"><p>Soil test first. Looks can be deceiving but if the stuff ploughs up like a beach be prepared for it to have no backbone and probably no ability to hold on to nutrients. May suffer with magnesium or similar deficiency which may catch you out if you are used to farming different dirt.</p><p></p><p>I would have a rotation that aims to limit deep or serious tillage and start thinking about ways of adding organic matter. You may choose to chop the straw from cereal crops from this land (just an example) and I would definitely start looking at taking paper sludge and/or other materials like FYM or sewage sludge. Anything to get the soil life back working properly. Just don't go mad and chuck on crazy amounts of anything in one autumn and expect it to like it. You can upset your soil chemistry in a big way doing that kind of thing.</p><p></p><p>I would try to put applications on top of the soil and leave them there. The worms will do the rest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ollie989898, post: 7843713, member: 54866"] Soil test first. Looks can be deceiving but if the stuff ploughs up like a beach be prepared for it to have no backbone and probably no ability to hold on to nutrients. May suffer with magnesium or similar deficiency which may catch you out if you are used to farming different dirt. I would have a rotation that aims to limit deep or serious tillage and start thinking about ways of adding organic matter. You may choose to chop the straw from cereal crops from this land (just an example) and I would definitely start looking at taking paper sludge and/or other materials like FYM or sewage sludge. Anything to get the soil life back working properly. Just don't go mad and chuck on crazy amounts of anything in one autumn and expect it to like it. You can upset your soil chemistry in a big way doing that kind of thing. I would try to put applications on top of the soil and leave them there. The worms will do the rest. [/QUOTE]
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