ecmn | LPaulson7 - 12/3/2024 21:54
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.
If there's no nutrients in the soil where did the 23 phosphorus credit and 44 N credits come from on this soil comparison
If there's no nutrients in the soil how did we as a species live off the land for thousands of years before a retailer came along? If the soil can't generate nutrients how do Forest and the prairies function?
Have you ever heard of a Geological Survey? A Geological Survey in will tell you that there is hundreds of thousands of pounds of P&K in the top couple feet of soil. Whether you choose to farm in a manner to make that available or not is up to you
In my world 12 lb is more than 9 lb. Again I answered the guy's question comparing two different products. Get it into your head I never once related that example to a yield goal. My God
Okay fine then change the rate of fertilizer applied to a 10x. 120 of potassium through a liquid fertilizer is more nutrients at the plant than 90 pounds through a dry fertilizer. Do you comprehend
I have cited many many soil scientists and studies. So their guys's research makes it a fact. You have never once cited a research study
There is zero correlation absolutely no data out there supporting that there is a direct connection between a soil test reading and yield. If there was every single one of us would just be pouring on tons and tons of fertilizer to get the highest soil test possible.
Where do you think most of the nutrients come from to feed your plants? It is not the fertilizer that you're putting down it is the soil.
Edited by easymoney 12/4/2024 10:37
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