Soil test results advice

johnnyw20

Finally got my soil test results today after 5 weeks since I sent them in. This is the first time I've ever done soil tests due to having a space age father. I'm 25 and never seen lime spread here. I've never done any type of Ag course so my knowledge is limited. I spread 23 units of urea in both fields about 3 weeks ago as I had to with the weather that was in it

Done two fields. Field 1 was pH of 6.7 and field 2 was 6.3 so I was happy with that

Field 1 has a P index of 4 (9.64) and K of 3 (116)
I was planning on grazing this now and closing it up for a hay meadow then. What fertiliser would you recommend for this? I was thinking of 3.5 bags of cut sward?

Field 2 is in a bad way with both indexs being 1. P is 2.04 mg/l and K is 20.5mg/l. I was very surprised by this as it got a very good coating of slurry last April. I was thinking of a couple of bags of 0-10-20 or would I need something more drastic?

Also need to add that it is a stud farm so need to take it handy enough with nitrogen

Thanks

Tail painter

Field 1 is pretty good. 3.5 bags cut sward would be fine for silage but might be too much N for hay. A heavy crop of grass will be more difficult to dry out. I would go for 2.5 bags. there should still be enough P and K as they are pretty good. Field 2 is a different story. It needs a lot of P and K, but too much in one go will cause some losses. Do you want N on this field? 3 bags 10.10.20 or 18.6.12 now and more P and K next autumn should work well. You will need more P and K for a couple of years to build indices.

razor8

johnnyw20 wrote: »

Finally got my soil test results today after 5 weeks since I sent them in. This is the first time I've ever done soil tests due to having a space age father. I'm 25 and never seen lime spread here. I've never done any type of Ag course so my knowledge is limited. I spread 23 units of urea in both fields about 3 weeks ago as I had to with the weather that was in it



Done two fields. Field 1 was pH of 6.7 and field 2 was 6.3 so I was happy with that

Field 1 has a P index of 4 (9.64) and K of 3 (116)
I was planning on grazing this now and closing it up for a hay meadow then. What fertiliser would you recommend for this? I was thinking of 3.5 bags of cut sward?

Field 2 is in a bad way with both indexs being 1. P is 2.04 mg/l and K is 20.5mg/l. I was very surprised by this as it got a very good coating of slurry last April. I was thinking of a couple of bags of 0-10-20 or would I need something more drastic?

Also need to add that it is a stud farm so need to take it handy enough with nitrogen

Thanks

Where did you get test done? Very high ph for land that didn't get any lime in years

johnnyw20

razor8 wrote: »

Where did you get test done? Very high ph for land that didn't get any lime in years

Test done by ias labs. Good limestone land