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Comment on Chilean Nitrate Temporary Price Reduction by Spiro

Spiro — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 02:25:00 +0000

We are interestead in buying some totes of the Chilean nitrate, can someone please contact me at this email address, also is the rumor of tis product being outlawed true? What a shame if it is.

Spiro Daskalos

Comment on Accuracy of a Soil Test by Gerry Wass

Gerry Wass — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:43:26 +0000

This is fascinating but at the same time bewildering and reinforces why I’ve gotten stopped over and over again in biological ag over 30 years of struggles. It seems like I never quite get the big picture or am not quite diligent enough to do all the details or can’t afford all the things I need. But as I come back for another try, I’ve got to relax, do the best to understand what I can and try to improve my skills a little more every year, which is to say that I really appreciate having access to this information.

Comment on Accuracy of a Soil Test by joevic tabligan

joevic tabligan — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:59:27 +0000

I am from Phil. I just want to ask if you have idea on how to manage a mango plantation and sugar cane farm. what kind of fertilizers is best to improve it’s quality.

Comment on Accuracy of a Soil Test by Jon Frank

Jon Frank — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:08:20 +0000

Mark

Carbonized Limestone is lower pH at around the low 7′s instead of 9 for plain limestone. This could help your soil immensely.

Thanks for sharing.

Comment on Accuracy of a Soil Test by Jamie Hurst

Jamie Hurst — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:00:41 +0000

I am very new to all of this and am looking for how to create soil that can be used to create container pots for herb gardens.
I do not want to purchase any soil from our local feed stores because I do not have a glue what is in it.
I have sent a sample of my soil at my home of 63′x210′ and Luke Lemmers is preparing a mineral mixture to add to this depleted soil for this purpose. I am a master gardener and a graduate of the RBTI School in Tennessee by Dr. Wiles who took over the work or Dr. Reams for helping us to be healthier. I am very concerned about blood test for people and realize the uncertainy for the info we get from that and see why we could have some of the same problems with soil. I know some types of diabetees can be cured because after my daughter and son-in-law came to live with me the Medical Doctors took him off of insulin because he was no longer a diabetic after eating the better food (less meat more veggies & whole grains and less fruit) that I had to offer. I want to be able to use the formula of how to treat the depleted soil and add to it other things to create my own mixture for a certain plant (like Perlite, Vermiculite, peat moss, compost and cow and or pidgen manure. I go for my first appointment tomorrow to help one of my best friends create an herb garden. Please let me know your thoughts as soon as you can. Thank you. Jamie Hurst in Kaplan, LA…337-523-9380 or jamie123hurst@yahoo.com —also I have a Facebook section but you have to invite me to be a friend

Comment on Accuracy of a Soil Test by Clay all over farms

Clay all over farms — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:35:12 +0000

i will share our families expirience, We farm on heavy clay soil bearbrook clay they call it, They once called it lake champlain. The soil had a naturaly high K value and to make things even harder to plow was the high mg and low calcium. This was not a very good situation as we now know for crop growth. at the time my father was believing a locale college and all they ever said was to and more k and so we did and things got worse and it was at this time that our father got in to researching things a little more instead of taking the easy way out and calling the college for more multinational corporation advice. he was able to atend a field day with a neighbour of ours, it was the casi books that got him interested and from there on we started on ridges which we are still on today but we break them down every two years to help airate the soil. Going to the ridges was the first step then we started banding the herbicides planter or cultivator. liquid systems were installed on every planter cultivator to make better use of our fertilizer dollars. after a few years pure ridgetilling and not breaking the ride we got a hard lesson on the subject fertilizer quallity from then on we were using orthophosphate rater than polyphosphates since we are in a cold climate orthophosphate does not need to be converted to be available and who really wants those heavy metals from the automobile industry anyways way to expensive for what would otherwise be a hazardous waste. It was at this piont that things started to turn around for use the crops were doing much better the worms were starting to increase in numbers but we still had one thing we did not like and that was the rate of drainage the soil still did not drain like we would like it would take to long for the soil to dry to plant making it realy hard for use to plant and when we could it would dryup and make cement causing seed to soil contact to be very low. Ao we had to add some stone dust from a quarry about 2 km from us to increase th calcium content this inproved the situation but still not to the piont that we liked and our ph was getting up to high so we had to use Gypsum to get things moving a did things ever start to change the drainage was working alot better, as if it removed a lower hardpan that we had failed to remove with our tillage practices. at this piont we became in contact with the reams soil testing kit wich at that time we did not know it was a special testing procedure my dad had bought the kit from a locale consultant that was retiring. after about a year we relized what we had in our hand the very thing my father had been looking for a test that would not confuse him to death and that worked, with more reasearch and study it became aperant to us that conventional farming was not going to work for us and sustainable farming was the way to go it was working the soil crop yields showed it we are able to be more confident about the yields soil drainage after a rain less disease problems and less rotting of grain. I will post more another time, as it stands today conventional soil tests are good to give one an idea of what is in the soil not available the reams test is the one that closely reflects what is going on in the field.

Comment on Chilean Nitrate Temporary Price Reduction by Howard Lawrence

Howard Lawrence — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 03:46:46 +0000

Where is this shipping from, and what is the freight cost to Tallahassee Fl.?

Comment on Accuracy of a Soil Test by Tom Gibson

Tom Gibson — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:02:31 +0000

The test results don’t show what test was ordered so I am not sure what product/service you are showing. Can you show examples of S-1, S-4, and S-5 or label your results so we can see what information you are giving on those tests?

Comment on Accuracy of a Soil Test by Jon Frank

Jon Frank — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:07:24 +0000

Muchas gracias, siempre es bienvenido al blog. Esperamos que vuelva siempre para encontrar noticias y actualizaciones valiosas.

Comment on Accuracy of a Soil Test by Jon Frank

Jon Frank — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:04:37 +0000

Marcus, You are on the right path but Sea salt by itself won’t get you where you where you want to go. It is much better to analyze soil, provide what is missing (including sea salt if sodium is low), then repeat yearly. See http://www.highbrixgardens.com for more info. -Jon