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Iowa | I'm in the same situation this year, renting a farm for 1st year and I took soil samples in 3 acre grids, after I got the results I was shocked and realized that 3 acre grids was too large of grids, soil varies too much in each grid ph 7.6 and the next ph 5.3 I'm as low as 4 P but one area over 100 on P. I also have many areas of very compacted soil, but it's got a lot of tile' it raised 200 bu corn and 60 bu soybeans past 3 years, past 3 years we had perfect weather conditions I'm afraid it would not be good in a dry year.
I'm using https://delaware.osu.edu/node/588 THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY college of food and Agricultural FERTILIZER CALCULATOR , it appears to be pretty close at figuring P,K and Lime.
I hear people saying it's like farming in the 1980's again. Well in spring of 1981 when I was 20 Dad talked me into buying a farm/cattle/machinery/ and tile with a variable 9% percent interest rate. the neighbors thought I was crazy for paying so much for land, but dad said land prices would never go down and interest rates would return to 6%, well dad was wrong the next 3 years land dropped 60% and my variable rate climbed to 14%, then we had a poor crops in 1982 ,1983 and tornado and hail storm in 1984, in fall of 1986 corn prices fell to around $1.00 a bushel, but I had a good year in 1988. I don't want to go back to the 1980s! | |
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