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Aberdeen MS | That's were the difference lies between your conditions and mine Ed. We can't manage our pH like you can. Our's "here" are alkaline in nature, not acidic.
It makes for a whole new ball game trying to grow soybeans when you have a 40 with an average pH of 8.1 and you stayed OUT of the hot spots when you pulled the probes.
Again, like I replied to Mike, I think the word "greatly reduced" is taken in wrong sense of the word. That may work for a year or two to pull extremely high residual levels down into a high medium to better maximize nutrient dollar efficiency. But over the long run, I won't disagree on drastic cuts and still staying profitable. It's the level of management one is willing to accept and apply.
When I do my comparisons, and what I spoke on at the Conservation Tillage Conference, I used figures that reduced the broadcast build recs by 20% o for my savings comparisons, nothing more. Well, I also offered by strip tilling and banding/indexing the nutrients, a saving of commercial application was also in those figures. Applicaton fees "here" for 500 acres of cropland amounts to $2500 per year. Not a lot really, but it adds to the total savings. | |
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How do you guys soil sample in strip till?
