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Clark, SD | Funny enough, you’re the only one hear throwing around insults and attempting to put me down…meaning that you likely have no facts to argue as that’s all I’m putting out here.
Now full disclosure I have a bachelors in engineering and a minor in agronomy…so I know what I’m talking about when referring to soil fertility.
You can explain all you want…but that doesn’t make it true. There is 1000% a correlation between soil fertility and yield, have all the data and yield maps to back it up. No, high fertility levels is extra money in your pocket every year, it’s the difference between 40/50 bushel beans and 60/70 bushel beans. For a $120 investment to raise the soil level of K, it will return $90 every year as long as you run maintenance levels thereafter, that’s what you call a big ROI. 4% base sat is huge when compared to 1%.
You’re not putting “more” nutrients, you’re putting less but a more plant available source which still isn’t 100% of what the crop will use, meaning you’re mining the rest from the soil. A few gallons of 10-34 isn’t enough to feed a crop, you need to have .25lb/bu/ac. And as I’ve said that’s why it’s important to maintain high soil levels, 100% of the potash applied the previous fall isn’t going to be plant available…but there is available K in the soil the plant will use. The un available K that was applied the previous fall is the replacement for what is being used out of the soil. The soil isn’t making its own K bud…it has to come from somewhere. | |
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Raising K levels
