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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIF5lPZUnCo&feature=related Watch this and see how many lies you can catch this Dude in!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIF5lPZUnCo&feature=related Why Bellevue Lime is Worthless it is too dry and it will all blow away. It must be true because this video tells me SO!
In this Video this Liar says that 400# of Super Cal 98 equals 1 ton “2000” pounds of regular Ag Lime.
Let us compare Super Cal 98 to Cheney High Calcium ag lime Available in Michigan. (CCE) 93.4%
97.3% Passing 8 Mesh
57.5% passing 60 Mesh
50.3% passing 100 Mesh
Magnesium 5.1%
Moisture 2% which is too dry to do a good quality spreading job. 4% moisture would be perfect. Super Cal 98 is 1% moisture and 4% binders to make the Pellet.
Regular Ag Lime may be 7% moisture but the price is $120.00 per ton cheaper than Super Cal 98 so just use 2% extra.
Considering 1% moisture and 4% binder in Super Cal 98 I will disregard moisture comparisons in value.
Now I will examine how big of a Liar this crook is: #1 he said regular ag lime is a 20 mesh Material. The Michigan Lime Law requires 40% passing a 60 Mesh Sieve.
Andersons Ag lime only has 38% passing a 60 Mesh sieve yet 38% passing 60 mesh is still 3 times finer than this liar in the video states.
50.3 Belleview lime passing 100 mesh = 1060 pounds of Pellet lime in one ton of Bellevue lime. So if you apply 1 ton of this Ag lime you are getting far more than 1060 # of lime like what is in pellet lime. All lime passing a 60 mesh screen is considered usable. I don’t have enough other screen test break downs to come up with the exact Formula.
So lets just say 1 ton of Bellevue lime is OK this Science is getting too complicated to simplify this I will use the Lab figured CCE 93.4% I will give Super Cal 98 a full 98% even thought this is not possible because Super Cal 98 is 1% moisture and 4% Clay OK lets figure this too now 98% minus 5% = 93% Wow look there
Super Cal 98 tests 93% CCE Bellevue tests CCE 93.4% it does not state if that is on a dry basis or as is so I will subtract 2% water just to be safe.
Super Cal 98 = 93% Bellevue = 91% OK Super Cal 98 does not have any 20 mesh material in it. So I will subtract 50% from 40% which would be taking 20% more away for some course material.
I will give Bellevue lime and extremely conservative rating of 91-20 = 71%
Regular ag lime 71% Super Cal 98 93% An extremely conservative rating would mean you have to use a 1.3 Factor. 1.3 tons of Belleview lime equals 1 ton of Super Cal 98
Spreading at 1.3 tons per acre Bellevue lime would cost $25.00 per ton delivered and spread $32.50 per acre
1 ton of Super Cal 98 spread at 1 ton per acre would be $140.00 per ton for the lime $6.00 per acre spreading $146.00 per acre.
You would get the exact same results from both limes not taking into considerations if the Bellevue limes blows away. Furthermore Michigan State University spread regular lime and Pellet lime on test plots at 1 ton 3 ton and 5 tons per acre ect. The Pellet lime actually worked slower than regular ag Lime. Pellet Lime is stuck in these big stupid pellets and it can take up to 1 year for the rain and snow and freezing to break down the pellets before pellet lime will do any good. Remember Lime is not as water soluble at fertilizer and the huge pellets just lay on top of the soil. They don’t touch any soil particles they just lay there doing nothing for 1 year. Applying 300-400 # per acre of any kind of lime has very negligible benefits. Pellet lime will not blow away, but the big pellets could all be washed to the bottom of the hills in a big rain. If pellet lime would have spread on top of light snow like the regular lime in the video it could have been blown into the ditch the same way the regular lime did. You would not see the pellet lime in the Ditch however because they only spread 300# per acre and that is such a small amount even if all of the pellet lime blew into the ditch it would not be very noticeable. 300 # of lime does almost nothing.
Spreading at 300# per acre and charging $6.00 per acre for spreading adds to the cost if you have to spread every year too. Spreading Pellet lime at 300# per acre for $6.00 per acre adds $40.00 per ton to the price of the lime. So the real price of pellet Lime Delivered and spread is $180.00 per ton.
I know of one fertilizer Dealer who had multiple Branches sold 15,000 tons of pellet lime in one year at $40.00 per ton gross profit not counting spreading income.
15,000 X $40.00 = $600,000 Gross Profit. Now you know why incompetent dishonest crooked Fertilizer dealers beg Farmers to by Pellet Lime.
Pellet Lime is a highly efficient means to transfer money from the Farmers Bank account to the Fertilizer Dealers Bank account. How my money does it cost to manufacture pellet lime. The lime is worth $11.50 per ton crushed and screened so it is all 100 mesh or finer. It must be dried which wastes natural gas which could have been used to produce nitrogen or to dry corn with. Adding clay and sorting and such. Now you have a product that can be sold for $40.00 per ton F.O.B. Pellet lime Plant. $30.00 per ton freight $10.00 per ton storage and handling. Now the fertilizer Dealer has $80.00 per ton invested yet it costs the Farmer $140.00 per ton plus $40.00 per ton to spread it. $180.00 per ton which is only worth 1.3 tons of lime that sells for $11.50 per ton.
Ok again delivered and spread price for 1.3 tons of good fine ag lime $21.50 per acre
Real cost of Pellet lime Delivered and Spread @ 1 ton per acre $146.00 per ton. Remember spreading at 300# per acre per year will not change the ph maintain it yes maybe but raise the ph NO.
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Pellet Lime cost $100 per ton too much
