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  • Corey McCain

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    January 20, 2022 at 4:57 pm
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    I remember seeing Dan mention that about Boron. I haven’t done the research on that yet to understand the why aspect, I question and research everything people say. I have added Boron twice in the last year and it has come up to .7ppm from .2ppm in my sulfured section of the plot. It actually dropped to .2ppm in the section I limed when it was previously at .5ppm before amending a second time. So it didn’t increase in the limed section but rather went down. The pH came up in that section by .5 to 6.5-6.6, but the calcium level barely moved in one block and actually lowered in another. That has me scratching my head at the moment though not worried about it (I just got a new soil probe today for gathering samples as I may have some inconsistency on my end in gathering samples, I couldn’t see the actual length of core with my previous one). We have had little rain since my September soil test so I don’t believe the boron is leaching. It seems like applying lime had a chemistry impact on boron somehow dropping it on the soil test. I only plan on tilling this go around and will test at summer. I understand that the soil test is not our goal but I am doing a lot of testing to try and learn what I can. I’m going to do a little sap testing as well for my education.