Soil Test Results -Recommendations?

99nsr125

Apart from the ga-jaysus amount of lime needed
my quick interpretation is 1 bag of potash and
1.5 bags of Superphos an acre.

Feel free to criticise and come up with better answers

Thanks In Advance


PS
It'll be grazing only for the medium term

Pharaoh1

Are you in a high molybdenum area?
You don't want to be overspending on the Lime if it is not required.

F.D

Good easy to read test result, where did you get it done?

blue5000

Hi OP is it a black, peaty soil? I see the pH is low and OM fairly high at 14%.

If it is peat and you are only grazing it might be better to go little and often with the P and K. K is water soluble and if you put on a bag of it(50% muriate of potash) in one go a lot could disappear with the first wet day. Something like pasture sward 27,2.5, 5 might be better. Also with a lot of K going on you will lock up magnesium causing grass tetany for milkers or suckler cows. Just my 2 cents.

99nsr125

blue5000 wrote: »

Hi OP is it a black, peaty soil? I see the pH is low and OM fairly high at 14%.

If it is peat and you are only grazing it might be better to go little and often with the P and K. K is water soluble and if you put on a bag of it(50% muriate of potash) in one go a lot could disappear with the first wet day. Something like pasture sward 27,2.5, 5 might be better. Also with a lot of K going on you will lock up magnesium causing grass tetany for milkers or suckler cows. Just my 2 cents.

We're not in a high molybdenum area but I might just double
check.

OM at 14% jumped out of the page at me alright, I would
have been happy with 8%, it's not a peaty soil it's a mineral
brown earth !

This particular field hasn't had tillage for decades
because it's a bit uneven and has a rock outcrop in two places.

However it is the furthest field from the house, nice and dry all year
which means dung is always spread on it first because it soaks
in well and doesn't stink the house out of it.

There's an even spread of clover in it too and always has been so we just
stuck with dung for P and K, clover for nitrogen and in recent years
two bags 18-6-12 because the stocking ratio has been high.

It looks like we're going to change to two bags of 10-10-20 and half
a bag of CAN for the next tree years and then retest. 10-10-20 should
give a nice gently release and excess units of P and K over the 18-6-12.

We got the soil tested at FBA Labs as has been recommended here
numerous times (thanks everyone), it was an SR3 soil test with organic matter.
An SR3 soil test is P, K, Lime requirement and trace minerals.
An SR2 is P, K and Lime requirement it costs 12.50 inc vat.
An SR3 soil test is 25.50 inc vat for SR3 with organic matter its 35 inc vat

bob charles

I would just fertilise for the crop off take, index 2 is the target, but not by the fert companies opinion

MikeSoys

Can i get some advice on reading results of a soil sample for P and K
I got a email with the results (I took the samples myself - some of the fields were .05acre and others about 1ha) and for example the Phosphorus and Potassium results have the data like this


+---PHOSPHORUS

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++++ +

---

POTASSIUM

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+
field ID ¦ mg/L ¦ index ¦ ++ ¦ mg/L ¦ index¦
1 ¦ 3.4 ¦ 2 ¦ ++ ¦ 161 ¦ 4 ¦
2 ¦ 10.7 ¦ 4 ¦ ++ ¦ 145 ¦ 3 ¦
3 ¦ 6.9 ¦ 3 ¦++ ¦ 192 ¦ 4 ¦
If field 1 has a rating of 2 how do I work out how much P it needs (bags of fertilizer kg/ha of P and K) --as where a bag of fert seems to be sold in predetermined percents (like 10:10:20) how can i get the most accurate one for what i need -
i dont suppose there is a website where i can input my results and it will calculate the bags per ha(KG/HA)????..