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Martinsville, Ohio | Brandon, the soils I have test across the midwest and east coast vary greatly in substratum. Occasionally you will get a high lime subsoil but most I would say are acid subsoils. The topsoil is acid most places after decades of tillage, washing and high acid fertilizers.(does anyone have acid rain? I don't, just asking.)
It takes so much "bufferin" to lime these acid soils we can quibble about 1 ton here, 5 ton there but it really doesn't matter much. It looks good on a pH test but calcium? Magnesium? pH is important at 2 inches for some herbicides but we can do that with $8 of pellet lime.
I lime to get calcium in my soil. Everything else comes after that.
I do manage each field differently and used to farm zones differently but don't much anymore. What I have applied this fall varies by $50 per acre in expenses.
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VR Fertilizer is it worth it???
