Objective recommendations
 

Once a lime requirement has been established, an accurate recommendation for the specific crop, rotation and target issue can be produced and the relevant product sourced, delivered and spread!

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Agricultural Lime is lost from the soil in a variety of ways and intensive arable and livestock rotations naturally reduce the lime status and pH of the soil. Average losses can add up to 1250kg of CaCO3 per year!

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Cropping: 

• Decomposition of crop residues forms organic and inorganic acids

• Plants remove calcium and magnesium from the soil, increasing acidity

• Deep tillage may turn up acidic subsoil into the crop root zone 

• Plants release hydrogen ions to the soil, increasing acidity

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Leaching:

• Calcium and magnesium moved downwards out of the crop root zone by soil water, often with Nitrogen

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Fertilisation:

• Ammonium nitrate fertilisers increase soil acidity through nitrification

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Pollution:

• The products burning fossil fuels in power plants, industry and motor vehicles fall on soil as sulphuric and nitric acid rainfall.