Very high PH

[Boysground]

Thats the one. Not had clogging issues with it. Never like to keep copper over winter it always seems to go solid, just had that with a can of Headland I missed.

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[Brisel]

Mancuflo is a bugger for settling out. I dread taking delivery of old stock. That's the price you pay for having a formulation compatible with other chemicals without risking the complications you get with more soluble chelates.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

No wasn't thinking it would reduce the PH but might help the low copper availability which cause the barley to not flower correctly plant just goes a pale white and never produces any viable grain. It is a recommended prosses but usually applied on the ploughed land that's why I was asking if it would be wise to try it now. Field is very high lime sand content. We usually spray twice with manganese .
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I’m surprised that a pH of 7.9 is the root of your problems. There are thousands of acres of South Warwickshire above pH 8.5 and I don’t hear those farmers have trouble.

Mind you, come to think of it, I don’t often hear from them at all!

 

[Mrs Brown]

I suppose being derived from blown sand it doesn't have much fertility so no deep down oomf ,and little in the way of any trace elements, don't suppose I should even try to grow barley on it but hay ho you just have to work with what you got.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Have you got a local farm to get any manure from? Slather it on good and think and in about twenty years it might improve!

 

[Mrs Brown]

Beef farm been in family for more than a hundred years had dung and latterly slurry regularly. The only reason its ploughed out is its very prone to growing couch grass so needs a couple of years of roundup and try and get a few tons of barley in the prosses