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<blockquote data-quote="cowman82" data-source="post: 1848882" data-attributes="member: 43599"><p>I see this saying in the 'grass farmer' circles... unfortunately.. when people plant corn / beans / hay and keep raping it over and over. yes.. they will take it all out. Just think. a hay crop will remove 50 lb of K for every ton. </p><p></p><p>And the argument is always.. "in good farmland theres XXXXX amount of K .. . P... " well.. most people grazing don't have "good" farmland. So throw that out the window. I had top quality farmland that I bought. Some of the best soils in the state. That guy raped that place for his entire life until he died. I did soil tests. EVERYTHING was at 4 - 5 ppm. </p><p></p><p>I had to put 500 / lb acre on to even get any type of yields. After 4 years of high fertilizer amounts, cows, and unrolling hay.. I got it up to 7-8ppm. No fancy lime.. bugs, plants.... anything.. will get it back. MAYBE the best thing would of been some deep tillage and rolled the bottom 2-3 feet into the top. but i never tested that deep to see where it was at. a lot of places you can't do that though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowman82, post: 1848882, member: 43599"] I see this saying in the 'grass farmer' circles... unfortunately.. when people plant corn / beans / hay and keep raping it over and over. yes.. they will take it all out. Just think. a hay crop will remove 50 lb of K for every ton. And the argument is always.. "in good farmland theres XXXXX amount of K .. . P... " well.. most people grazing don't have "good" farmland. So throw that out the window. I had top quality farmland that I bought. Some of the best soils in the state. That guy raped that place for his entire life until he died. I did soil tests. EVERYTHING was at 4 - 5 ppm. I had to put 500 / lb acre on to even get any type of yields. After 4 years of high fertilizer amounts, cows, and unrolling hay.. I got it up to 7-8ppm. No fancy lime.. bugs, plants.... anything.. will get it back. MAYBE the best thing would of been some deep tillage and rolled the bottom 2-3 feet into the top. but i never tested that deep to see where it was at. a lot of places you can't do that though. [/QUOTE]
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