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The albrecht, kinsey, soil-life (haggard) school of soil management works but is a life time fix not a rental ground and borrowed money mgmt plan so it eliminates most farmers. Albrectch taught both Kinsey and Soil-life. I learned from studying the books of Kinsey/Albrecht and talking with soil-life before he past away.
The university heads don't like this method as they need to be needed. The universities get funding from big corporate ag and there is a ton of money in fungicides, liquids and quick bandaide might work fixes. The selling of tonnage of dry lime, fertilizer is not cheap and not a quick fix and costs hundreds or even thousands per acre.
The higher mg levels makes the ground more sticky. It is hell to leach off mg as you apply sulfate sulfur and need time and drainage for it to leach off. I am battling higher then I'd like mg levels on my farms as the clay based soil and past applications of lime that had higher mg% then ideal. You have to fix the ca and have it up atleast 65% before you can leach the excess mg off or your wasting time.
So all cations Ca, Mg, Na, K effect the ph of the soil. The Albrecht method wants a certain combination of those cations as they each affect how the soil infiltrates water, how the roots can grow, air in the soil ect all promoting a better environment for the microbial life in the soil.
So looking at lime it is sold by ENM not by Ca and Mg%. We buy N P K by lbs of nutrient but not lime which is asinine. You can create issues adding high mg lime when high ca lime is needed.
Here we cannot get an affordable source of gypsum which sounds magical but is only calcium sulfate which doesn't sound magical at all. If location allows a cheap source of gypsum it does work magic if the soil is a little low in ca and high in mg it builds the ca level and lowers the mg level and boom the soil gets better.
K is expensive to build.
Once the ground is somewhat balanced it is easy to maintain but getting it there is hell on the pocket book.
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Help me understand CEC, CA and MG
