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Ed Winkle
Posted 11/11/2012 18:01 (#2691404 - in reply to #2691326)
Subject: Re: Help with a troublesome farm...


Martinsville, Ohio
https://soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/F/FAYETTE.html

I would love to work with a Fayette, younger than most of my soils.

I soil test using the Midwest soil test and my friends refine that with a Morgan or a LaMotte. I set my yield goals and follow it as closely as I can. I tissue test and add enough micro's to try get the tissue into Sufficiency.

All the while I am tiling wet spots and trying to get enough calcium on soil like that. It can be strongly acid but notoriously low in Calcium. Hi cal lime and gypsum helps porosity and tilth.

It's a great notill soil and I like rye on late falls like now and something mixed in earlier, the whole realm of cover cropping can help bring tilth and fertility and biology back to that soil.

How is your stratification stratified? All the goodies in the top 2 inches? Gypsum will move it down and deep rooted crops, I like radish, ARG and rye. Do you have K deficient corn? I have seen that addressed in Iowa with spoon feeding potash and calcium and I have some good contacts if you are interested.

Ed
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