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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1831158" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>Today I was at online ordering my 50 lb pail of Biotin crumbles, so I switched over to the salt/mineral pages. 50 lb bag of trace minerals was $20.99, and a 40 lb mineral salt block with the same percentage of the same trace minerals, was $20.99. So loose vs block is a no-brainer. They had 50lb bags form $16.79 to in the $30's. It just depended on what minerals and what percentage, Here when you send in your soil test to get the correct fertilizer mix and rate, the labs also report the percentage of minerals, so you can add them to your fertilizer. When you see your field or pasture has insufficient levels of a certain mineral or minerals, they tell you how much of each to add to the lbs per acre fertilizer mix. and you can use that to pick what loose minerals you need to buy to feed. You can't do that with a block. Plus adequate amount of blocks with just the "general" mineral mix, would be way more expensive than loose minerals, and a waste of money. Kinda like fertilizing pastures and hay fields. I know people who order standard blends...7-4-21, 5-10-15, 8-24-24, etc, at how ever many lbs per acre they think they can afford. They are wasting money unless they are putting out the correct percentage of the 3 components, at the rate called for in the soil test. They may as well take their money and run it through a shredder, and use it for mulch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1831158, member: 40587"] Today I was at online ordering my 50 lb pail of Biotin crumbles, so I switched over to the salt/mineral pages. 50 lb bag of trace minerals was $20.99, and a 40 lb mineral salt block with the same percentage of the same trace minerals, was $20.99. So loose vs block is a no-brainer. They had 50lb bags form $16.79 to in the $30's. It just depended on what minerals and what percentage, Here when you send in your soil test to get the correct fertilizer mix and rate, the labs also report the percentage of minerals, so you can add them to your fertilizer. When you see your field or pasture has insufficient levels of a certain mineral or minerals, they tell you how much of each to add to the lbs per acre fertilizer mix. and you can use that to pick what loose minerals you need to buy to feed. You can't do that with a block. Plus adequate amount of blocks with just the "general" mineral mix, would be way more expensive than loose minerals, and a waste of money. Kinda like fertilizing pastures and hay fields. I know people who order standard blends...7-4-21, 5-10-15, 8-24-24, etc, at how ever many lbs per acre they think they can afford. They are wasting money unless they are putting out the correct percentage of the 3 components, at the rate called for in the soil test. They may as well take their money and run it through a shredder, and use it for mulch. [/QUOTE]
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