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martin
Posted 12/7/2025 10:15 (#11460474 - in reply to #11460432)
Subject: RE: Soil tests


First question I am wondering... what application equipment do you have?  You pulled samples on 3-acre grids.  So, what is reasonable for you to make applications?  

If I were you, I would get a soils map of those acres, and see how nutrient variation lines up with soil type. Maybe be important to know.... may be only of academic important.

I wonder how an application map would look if you start grouping zones together.... for each nutrient.  Again, goes back to application equipment that you have available.

Some of those nutrients are consistent enough that I would make one application rate for the crop. Zinc would be a good example.  Sulfur may be another.  Some you will want to make variable application rates.  Lime/ ph is an example. Gypsum may be another.  

Some food for thought... if you had pulled grid samples on a 5 or 6 acre grids, you may have gotten a different set of numbers, with different set of recommendations.  If you have pulled grid samples on a 1 or 2 acre grid, you would have gotten a different set of results with again another set of recommendations.  So, take your soil sample results into perspective, and figure out what is a workable plan for you. 

Reading thru your post again, I see you mention using Dolomitic lime where you have mg levels 300-500 ppm. Did you really intend to say that?  Dolomitic lime is Hi-mag lime. Do you understand that?

That's my perspective.

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