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POLL Cow/calf on small acreage in Texas and deep south?
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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1647090" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>Soil types can change even within a single piece of property of relatively small acreage. Most of mine is a clayey/silt loam that is hard as cement most of the year but all but floats after a long wet month. You can see it 'heave' as you drive across it and you better not travel the same tire tracks more than a couple of times or you will break thru the hard surface and there's no bottom to it.</p><p></p><p>Texas river bottoms generally don't need much or any lime, which is why so much of them are covered in hardwood and much less pine than areas a few hundred yards away from the flood plain. Floodplains in E. Texas generally get limestone silt brought down from the North and NW part of the state the rivers spread out and that silt keeps the soil more neutral. Not saying there are no pines in the bottoms, but not nearly as many.</p><p>Pines love acidic soil and the needles they drop are acidic in nature due to the uptake of acidic ions. It's a continuing cycle. Acidic soil begets acidic foliage, which are shed on the soil and decay, keeping the soil acidic for years after the pines are gone unless the landowner applies lime. The pine belt stretches from about I-45 Eastward across the Southeast USA, but not far West of I-45 in Tx, the pines just disappear. The soil is not as acidic farther West so pines are not as common. (Bastrop's Lost Pines area excluded)</p><p></p><p>I will try sometime to post a link to an app that will show you everything about the soil on any given piece of property. Will post it in the grass/pasture section. There's a learning curve to using the app (mostly to exclude info you aren't interested in) but once you get the hang of it the program works pretty good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1647090, member: 18945"] Soil types can change even within a single piece of property of relatively small acreage. Most of mine is a clayey/silt loam that is hard as cement most of the year but all but floats after a long wet month. You can see it 'heave' as you drive across it and you better not travel the same tire tracks more than a couple of times or you will break thru the hard surface and there's no bottom to it. Texas river bottoms generally don't need much or any lime, which is why so much of them are covered in hardwood and much less pine than areas a few hundred yards away from the flood plain. Floodplains in E. Texas generally get limestone silt brought down from the North and NW part of the state the rivers spread out and that silt keeps the soil more neutral. Not saying there are no pines in the bottoms, but not nearly as many. Pines love acidic soil and the needles they drop are acidic in nature due to the uptake of acidic ions. It's a continuing cycle. Acidic soil begets acidic foliage, which are shed on the soil and decay, keeping the soil acidic for years after the pines are gone unless the landowner applies lime. The pine belt stretches from about I-45 Eastward across the Southeast USA, but not far West of I-45 in Tx, the pines just disappear. The soil is not as acidic farther West so pines are not as common. (Bastrop's Lost Pines area excluded) I will try sometime to post a link to an app that will show you everything about the soil on any given piece of property. Will post it in the grass/pasture section. There's a learning curve to using the app (mostly to exclude info you aren't interested in) but once you get the hang of it the program works pretty good. [/QUOTE]
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