lime

If he's from Jersey, probably buried a bunch of bodies.

Lime is for correcting PH. That's what it's used for here anyway and why I pay soil lab every 2 yrs.

I do two tons per acre on my hay fields cost me $34 a ton delivered and spread. At $14000 an acre I don’t know what he is doing?

Tbone said it well

Red Bank wrote: Pretty sure the $14K an acre is the purchase price of the land, not the treatments. [

I misread that this morning my fault. Lol I was thinking that’s a lot of lime [/QUOTE]

Gonna find out the price in a little while. Boys said soil samples were in. I know it improves stands of alalafa. Gonna get the stuff that is available to the crop next spring. Might have them toss a bag of red clover in and some p and k.

guy that owns land is a commodities broker in chicago whose folks still own land around here. heard he uses it for tax and losses purposes for his brokerage firm. trucks that brought product to spread were stainless steel bed dump trucks with ss pups behind. spread all day yesterday, has about 2500-3000 acres in immediate area. big farmin at it's best. lol.

Quarries around here screen the tailings to the Finer powder just for Ag use. Don't give it away but is a byproduct of selling clean rock so is low cost to them.

He is just trying to get 400bpa corn to pay for the land. Should be no problem.😆

I wanted to add something about the effects of liming fields. Around here in red clay ground some say it’s a waste of time. My father has been doing heavy applications for about 50 years and he always said it make the ground softer when there is a little moisture in it. I was putting in drain tile about 3ft deep and noticed a dramatic difference in the field vrs the waterway (not limed area) when I crossed the main field. I know this isn’t going to happen over night, but it does work and I now lime all ground and waterways twice if I have extra. I think it helps the micro organisms work in the ground better to help keep it from going stale. JMO

We aren’t using lime for ph correction unless it’s new ground, mostly more as a conditioner. I’ll look into this. Thank you

DMiller for a small acreage use a old EZ flow fertilizer spreader box or similar. I did a 20+ acres for a vineyard that way back in 97. I cannot remember if it was 2 or 3 truck loads. Took the lids off and used a loader to dump it in,was slow compared to the big spreaders,but I did some side hill they would of had trouble with. Must of been 3 loads as put the pile out then they decided more was better and got another load. I tried a spinner spreader first and lime was to fine to spread just floated down.

Edited by Ray54 - 08 Jan 2020 at 1:08pm