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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 575934" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>A young man came by seeking my advice on hay production. The young man is still in high school but he has an admirable work ethic and locked down several hay fields for his little business. One of the hay fields has been cut for the last six years with no fertilizer application. The soil test on this was so poor that half the rate of fertilizer was going to cost $485/acre. The buffer was totally depleted. I suggested he leave this field alone. It is fallow now and I've learned the last cutting yielded a bale an acre.</p><p></p><p>This is what scares me about some of the snake oil that's out there. Based on opinions of people that should know and whom I respect, some of these tonics will work UNTIL the reserves are gone. What they do is help mine the existing nutrients. I know a few people who are really going to be upset in a few years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 575934, member: 4362"] A young man came by seeking my advice on hay production. The young man is still in high school but he has an admirable work ethic and locked down several hay fields for his little business. One of the hay fields has been cut for the last six years with no fertilizer application. The soil test on this was so poor that half the rate of fertilizer was going to cost $485/acre. The buffer was totally depleted. I suggested he leave this field alone. It is fallow now and I've learned the last cutting yielded a bale an acre. This is what scares me about some of the snake oil that's out there. Based on opinions of people that should know and whom I respect, some of these tonics will work UNTIL the reserves are gone. What they do is help mine the existing nutrients. I know a few people who are really going to be upset in a few years. [/QUOTE]
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