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<blockquote data-quote="hurleyjd" data-source="post: 574409" data-attributes="member: 4674"><p>I have been liming for the last two years according to the soil test. On Tifton 85 this spring it showed the need for 1.5 tons to the acre. I had two tons spread. I have not had the resources to afford the high priced fertilizer. I have noticed that the grass is thicker and pretty good. I baled about 2500 lbs of hay to the acre yesterday. Tried to beat Gustav and I did. Somewhere in the past month or so someone posted a chart on liming that showed that at the low end of the PH the grass could only use about a third of the fertilizer as you moved up the PH scale to 7 the grass could use 100 precent of the fertilizer that was available are applied. This has been on pasture and I have seen good results with it. Liming to correct the PH is in my opinion more cost effective than feritlizering. My soil samples are from the first 8 inchs of the soil, the lime is spread on the pasture. I do not remember the particle size of the lime but the smaller the better. I like to use a lime that comes from Georgetown Texas, therefore we call it Georgetown lime. It is a light brown in color. The other lime that is available comes from Oklahoma and is gray and does not have the effect that the Georgetown has. Oklahoma is a little cheaper. The last I had spread was Georgetown an it cost was $48 a ton spread. Also with any legumes that you would want to plant will require a PH in the 6.5 to 7 range to utilize their full pontential. I have been kicking around buying one of the 12 foot Gandy spreaders and buying the lime and spreading it myself. I think that the Gandy is around $3000 now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hurleyjd, post: 574409, member: 4674"] I have been liming for the last two years according to the soil test. On Tifton 85 this spring it showed the need for 1.5 tons to the acre. I had two tons spread. I have not had the resources to afford the high priced fertilizer. I have noticed that the grass is thicker and pretty good. I baled about 2500 lbs of hay to the acre yesterday. Tried to beat Gustav and I did. Somewhere in the past month or so someone posted a chart on liming that showed that at the low end of the PH the grass could only use about a third of the fertilizer as you moved up the PH scale to 7 the grass could use 100 precent of the fertilizer that was available are applied. This has been on pasture and I have seen good results with it. Liming to correct the PH is in my opinion more cost effective than feritlizering. My soil samples are from the first 8 inchs of the soil, the lime is spread on the pasture. I do not remember the particle size of the lime but the smaller the better. I like to use a lime that comes from Georgetown Texas, therefore we call it Georgetown lime. It is a light brown in color. The other lime that is available comes from Oklahoma and is gray and does not have the effect that the Georgetown has. Oklahoma is a little cheaper. The last I had spread was Georgetown an it cost was $48 a ton spread. Also with any legumes that you would want to plant will require a PH in the 6.5 to 7 range to utilize their full pontential. I have been kicking around buying one of the 12 foot Gandy spreaders and buying the lime and spreading it myself. I think that the Gandy is around $3000 now. [/QUOTE]
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