Posted 11/19/2023 17:24 (#10488415 - in reply to #10488396) Subject: RE: Let’s talk removal rates
North Central Illinois
Soil tests are an attempt to measure plant available nutrients, not total quantity of each element in the soil profile.
"Mining the soil" of nutrients on our own farms is looked at pretty negatively by most, but we don't bat an eye at buying P and K that came from a finite mine somewhere else.