ecmn | dt4020 - 1/5/2026 07:56
Utilizing available crop nutrients is possible by making said nutrient actually available. Is lime holding you back? Are nutrients deeper in the profile?
How do you get there?
Oh man, I am glad you asked.
Are there nutrients available deeper? Yes! If we look at the top 6 in like retail agronomy likes to do absolutely we can measure the amount of nutrients that's there and we can can show an end date. When we will run out of nutrients. But we have plants that can go 4 ft 8 ft. Even 12 ft. And now you're in a pool of mineral that shifts from human time scale to geological. That's when the analogy becomes taking a bucket of water out of the ocean. Yep, on a calculator somebody could sit down and show the formula. But in reality, you're not making a dent
That's why none of these guys claiming that the soil is a finite resource. Can answer a simple question. Show me the size. The pool show me the depletion rate. They can't. The data does not exist. And if if it did, their whole argument collapses.
Their whole position depends on them pretending on the soil being this finite, limited pantry. Instead of this mass of geological pool, that's always being accessed, weathered, cycled and replenishing.
Here's the undisputed truth
100%. Possible You can mine the available pool. And you can mine it to the point of depletion to where it affects crop production and soil function.
100%, impossible To mine, the geological pool of minerals.
The gray area, the real agronomy is moving from the geological pool to the available pool. And for that we don't need fear-based fertilizer tactics, we don't need theories.
We can look at God's perfect design, Roots, exudates, acids, microbes, fungi. The whole biological engine designed to weather and cycle nutrients.
That's biology
That is the system
And that's the part nobody that is arguing the "finite soil" wants to talk about
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Can we agree on a definition of mining the soil?
