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Category: Feed
Date: 14 Nov 2006
Time: 04:25:05 -0800
My farm is located approx. 2 hours West of Boston, Mass. and is in an area of the U.S. called New England. Cold Snowy winters (temps avg 20 degrees F) and Summer temps are into the high 80s F. Typical yearly precipitation is 45 inches of rainfall. Here is my latest soil sample stats: ph 6.3 NO3 - 13 ppm (Parts per million) NH4 - 2 ppm organic matter - 4.7% Phosphorus - 14 ppm Potassium - 115 ppm Calcium - 809 ppm Magnesium - 137 ppm Boron - .2 ppm Manganese - 2.6 ppm Zinc -1.1 ppm Copper - .6 ppm Iron - 4.2 ppm CEC 9.1Meg/100g I've applied the following over the last year: 200 pounds of colloidal phosphate/Acre 175 pounds of Granite Meal/Acre (this is a mineral dust form of Potassium) 30 pounds of trace mineral salts/Acre 15 pounds of cane sugar/Acre 1.5 gallons of Chilean Nitrate/kelp/fish emulsion per Acre 3 times during the year The crop I planted that failed was a turnip/annual rye mix. 3 pounds/Acre forage turnip & 75 pounds Acre winter rye. I did a light disking with equipment that is not very heavy. That could be part of my problem there. There is no denying that the forage that is there is of high quality because I finished some jerseys steers on it that were wonderful eating but I also ran into a problem this summer where I was seeing some cows with there feet delaminating and cracking, along with some minor bloat. I attribute this from me putting the cows from primarily grass to primarily grass w/o any adjustment period. Lessons Learned! I have a phrase I like to use in cases like this (Happy Stupid)