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Central Missouri | For our farm it has. It takes alot of time and some expense beyond the annual fee.
We are original members. The program helps you identify which nutrients are limiting for the yield goal you are after.
We set yield goals and then We figured out the timing, amounts and form to apply the nutrients by using the info the program gave us and talking to other members and asking David Hula questions to reach those goals. We did it as inexpensively as possible. We also did it while enhancing our soil health scores which means we didnt dump salt based fertilizer on to hit some higher numbers on a standard soil test. Our soil test levels have remained the same we just apply the nutrients we were short of in the form and the amounts that the plant needs to maintain the tissue test levels necessary for our yield goals.
It was/is alot of work but it moved our farm to the next level of yield. They helped us identify our most limiting factors and we figured out how to fix those using some of their info and alot of research.
If you are struggling to get to the next yield level economically and If your p and k levels are in the medium on a soil test your answer isnt more p and k it is to make the p and k more available through biology and fix your most limiting nutrients. Only way to know what your most limiting nutrients are is to tissue test. Total acre through their data base gave us the levels of those nutrients that are necessary for yield goal. We fixed the nutrients and yields went up both in dry years and good rainfall years.
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Is it worth the money to be a Total Acre member?
