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I've always just pulled a sample here, and sample there. Just did the best I could, with what I had to work with. Shook hands this afternoon, with a company that is going to grid sample my place. The whole GPS thing, where you get more where you need it, and less where you don't. Fertilizer recommendation comes with it, and they cut me an exceptionally good deal on my grazon ultra for this growing season.

Long story short, it's going to be $7 an acre to sample the place. The company I'm going with only sells chemicles, and offers this service. They've saved me about $4 an acre on my chemicles an acre. I take my "info" to any place I want to get my fertilizer and lime. Shop for the best deal hopefully.

We'll say it's costing me $7 an acre. Will that $7 an acre save me more than that in lime and fertilizer? I've done shook on it, so there's no turning back now. He really talked like it would, but then again, he's selling something.

Ive posted this before, but I retire in 4 years. I'm trying to do everything I can to increase my stocking rate. More fences, a better fertility program, add some warm season grasses. I'm not under the false assumption that I will be more profitable, I just want to maximize production. If I'm going to be home all day, doing what I always wanted to, I might as well run as many head as possible.
 
m 5 they have spreaders that have 2 bays that auto adjust by gps to the rate of p or k that is needed. it is very popular around here we don't use it but a lot do. might save u a little over the years dollar wise but will boost yield.
 
This is a big crop area. Several places in town get the fertilizer and lime. I guess I can just call around, and see who is the cheapest on fertilizer, and then do the same for lime. I meant grazon next. Don't know why I always call it ultra.

I called another outfit this evening, just to get a price, and they were 7 dollars as well, so I guess that's not out of line. I just hope putting more where I need it, and less where I don't, will save me money over my normal method--------Just getting a buggy, and hitting every field with the same amount.

I am going to have to widen some openings, to get a spreader truck in. Not excited about that. That's really, why I've put this off as long as I have. I guess it'll be nice to have some wider openings though.
 
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I was gonna' put 3 tons of lime per acre with my own soil test on one farm. 160 acres@ 3 ton=480 ton of lime.
\Decided to do the grid sampling, I think mine was 12 dollars an acre. The results were I needed 488 ton of lime total on the 160.
Some places needed 6 ton, some needed none. Put it where it was needed, not just everywhere.
Gotta' believe that was a cost effective way to do it.
 
I did two crop farms last fall paid 8 dollars per acre. I got a book with color coded maps, shows where you are high and low in p&k and ph along with several micro nut. It is very surprising the differences in a field when everything was done the same for years. And how some of this follows the soil types across a field. I still have mixed feelings about variable rate spreading, it just starting to catch on here.
 
I guess I think in opposite ways. The price seems high. I know the weak areas of the pastures from observing in good growth and drought. When I have had broiler litter spread I mark the areas (step in posts) of lower growth as places to get an extra dose. It has cured a lot of ills that can be cured. Soil texture cannot be cured by varied applications. The all the same works to fine tune a monoculture the best. I prefer to have a duke's mixture or a salad bowl deal where forages that prefer or flourish in locations can be there and others can be in other places. Some of this was learned by repeated efforts to create or move towards a monoculture. It is the very thing that nature abhors.

But glad there are options for all folks and all thoughts.
 
I hope it saves me some money. I may find out things are worse than I thought, and it cost me money. We could have a drought, and I waste all my money on nutrition. That would really be bad.
 

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