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Hello,
I am planning to farm a couple of acres next year and thought I would get a jump on sweetening the soil. My cooperative extension report recommends about one ton++ per acre of pulverized lime. One problem with this is that pulverized lime spreaders are absurdly expensive (around 3 thousand for a half ton ground driven unit). Pulverized lime is pretty cheap in bulk.
On the other hand, pelletized lime can be spread easily with a regular fertilizer spreader but it runs about 5 bucks for a 50 lb bag, and its hard to find in bulk.. We are talking about 40 bags per acre or about 200 bucks per acre. That ain't exactly peanuts either. Any Ideas?
I am planning to farm a couple of acres next year and thought I would get a jump on sweetening the soil. My cooperative extension report recommends about one ton++ per acre of pulverized lime. One problem with this is that pulverized lime spreaders are absurdly expensive (around 3 thousand for a half ton ground driven unit). Pulverized lime is pretty cheap in bulk.
On the other hand, pelletized lime can be spread easily with a regular fertilizer spreader but it runs about 5 bucks for a 50 lb bag, and its hard to find in bulk.. We are talking about 40 bags per acre or about 200 bucks per acre. That ain't exactly peanuts either. Any Ideas?
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