Chae1
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£22/t here, from dufftown near Keith, calcium lime, similar spreading price
We can get the dufftown stuff here for 30/t doesnt sound too bad then£22/t here, from dufftown near Keith, calcium lime, similar spreading price
Ph can go too low for oats, we rent some land that's destined for houses and oats won't grow on it now.
@2t/acre x 2 your looking at £68/acre for lime and spreading based on prices up here.
No 28-29Sounds cheap for Aberdeenshire, £17/tonne spread?
I was wondering how you got £68/ac for 2t/ac x 2 applications?No 28-29
Are you expanding your services to cover Scotland?
I was wondering how you got £68/ac for 2t/ac x 2 applications?
We do a little bit that way, maybe more depending how things go next few months.
Yes.So a total of £112/ac over the 2 applications?
Just checking my brain hadn’t shut down over Christmas!!
Yes.
A lot of money. How many farms are being run down to these levels? For a tenant taking on a new farm will be a huge cost.
When we bought our farm and took on another tenancy i wish we just went over the whole place with a ton or 2 in the first year. Rather than going field by field reseeding and limingIt was. 320ac all between pH 5.1 and 5.4.
My lime man even gave me a bottle of scotch the first year I was here.
When we bought our farm and took on another tenancy i wish we just went over the whole place with a ton or 2 in the first year. Rather than going field by field reseeding and liming
Been there done that with prilled lime. Never againThat’s what I did, then retested and reapplied accordingly the next year. It was a big/huge lump to pay out in one go obviously, but my thinking was that the sooner it was corrected, the sooner it would start producing. The rent still had to be paid in full, even if it was growing diddly squat and 2/3 of any fertiliser was being wasted.
Definitely the right decision in hindsight.
There was one 60ac block of pp that was so waterlogged in 2012 that we couldn't access it with a lime spreader, so I used granular lime as a temporary measure. Retesting on that block later showed what an expensive waste of money that exercise was.
You are biased, you sell limeI know I’m biased, but it is still the best return on investment you’ll ever find.
I was reading this thread thinking about how to go about liming my apple orchards.Prilled lime belongs in apple orchards. It is an absolute waste of time.
Think you’ll find it’s 33 plus 6We are £30/t here. Spreading £6/t on top of that
I was £30.75/t last year from simpsonsThink you’ll find it’s 33 plus 6