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<blockquote data-quote="anewcomer" data-source="post: 1785742" data-attributes="member: 18748"><p>Bird dog, had a buddy buy 22 acres adjoining him 3-4 years ago.Run down bahia and lots of broomsedge. Had been hayed for years without any nutrients returned. Convinced him to soil test. Auburn University results said he needed lime and P and K. Fertilizer was cheaper then, so he sprung for the recommended amounts. 9 months after application, he tested again. Excellent response put him in the upper medium to high range. That summer, took 2 cuttings of hay off. Didn't need the hay, just had excess pasture he didn't want to waste. Bahia had thickened and broomsedge appeared to be weakening. Took another sample 6 months later. Test was virtually identical to the first one before the fertilizer application. 2 cuttings of hay had depleted all the fertility that had spent so much to inject! His new rule is no more hay cutting on his place, he'll buy in all his hay( he only feeds about a bale/cow/year). At a producer's meeting at Auburn last spring, an economist said that, at the current price of fertilizer and the current price of hay, there was more value in the N,P,K in the hay than the cost of the hay, forgetting the nutritional value of the hay to the animals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="anewcomer, post: 1785742, member: 18748"] Bird dog, had a buddy buy 22 acres adjoining him 3-4 years ago.Run down bahia and lots of broomsedge. Had been hayed for years without any nutrients returned. Convinced him to soil test. Auburn University results said he needed lime and P and K. Fertilizer was cheaper then, so he sprung for the recommended amounts. 9 months after application, he tested again. Excellent response put him in the upper medium to high range. That summer, took 2 cuttings of hay off. Didn’t need the hay, just had excess pasture he didn’t want to waste. Bahia had thickened and broomsedge appeared to be weakening. Took another sample 6 months later. Test was virtually identical to the first one before the fertilizer application. 2 cuttings of hay had depleted all the fertility that had spent so much to inject! His new rule is no more hay cutting on his place, he’ll buy in all his hay( he only feeds about a bale/cow/year). At a producer’s meeting at Auburn last spring, an economist said that, at the current price of fertilizer and the current price of hay, there was more value in the N,P,K in the hay than the cost of the hay, forgetting the nutritional value of the hay to the animals. [/QUOTE]
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