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Coldwater, Michigan | What kind of CEC is the soil showing? With that kind of OM showing, you could be nearly a peat or Muck type soil. Although true mucks generally run considerably higher in OM. This could be the reason you are showing such a high Calcium level, and still have a pH of 5,4. Muck soils should not normally be limed above 5.2 - 5.5 pH. Unfortunately some mucks are underlain with Marl and have very high pH, so not a lot you can do about the pH. On a muck soil, if you get the pH much over 5.5 - 5.8 ( depends on how organic the soil really is) you could easily get into micronutrient deficiencies. That doesn't normally happen with mineral soils until you get around 7.0 or a little higher.
Your P & K numbers also would not be unusual in the higher OM soils I have seen in Michigan.
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