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Low pH will compromise yield and quality – plan
your liming now!
The British Survey of Fertiliser Practice for crop year 2015 demonstrates the
continuation of the low levels of liming in both arable and grassland rotations,
as shown in Table 1:
Table 1: BSFP survey data showing average national lime use by rotation.
he 5 year averages
show just 3.4%
liming in grassland
and 8.5% liming in
arable rotations
This is equivalent
to liming grassland on a 30 year
cycle and arable land on a 12 year
cycle!
– does this feel sustainable?
Furthermore, data collected via
the PAAG 2015 survey from
173000 soil samples showed 56%
of grassland and 19% of arable
land tested at or below pH 6.0.
These levels will impact
significantly on the utilisation of
costly N, P and K and other
nutrients!
Routine pH testing is required to
ensure consequential loss of yield
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and quality is avoided by
maintaining soil pH at an
appropriate level.
Ignoring soil pH and available
calcium can prove to be a very
costly mistake even in the short to
medium term.
LimeX offers very fast acting,
but lasting pH correction in arable
and grassland rotations, and can
be used in organic farming
systems. Furthermore, the integral
nutrient package within LimeX
contributes to maintaining soil
fertility and increases available
calcium. A ‘maintenance’
application of LimeX70 at 5/t ha
will supply a minimum of:
50kg P2O5
35kg MgO
30kg SO3
Table 2: The impact of low pH on macro-nutrient efficiency.
typically worth at least £50 per
hectare.
LimeX is available to order now
for summer 2016, or for backloading during the sugar beet
processing season!
For more information on LimeX
please contact 0870 2402314, or
visit: limex.co.uk
BASIS supports biggest ever
Knowledge Trail at Cereals 2016
Members of the BASIS Professional Register will
benefit from the biggest ever Knowledge Trail at this
year’s Cereals Event. Over 20 companies will
participate in the 2016 Knowledge Trail, compared to
14 companies in 2015.
rofessional
Register
members can
earn up to a
maximum of six
BASIS points per
day, made up of two CPD
(Continuing Professional
Development) points for
attending either day of Cereals
2016 and up to an additional four
CPD points by completing
Knowledge Trail activities at
participating exhibitor stands.
To register for CPD points for
attending the event, members
should have their Professional
Register membership card
scanned, or input their details at
the BASIS stand, no 353a.
Exhibitors on the Knowledge Trail
will scan member’s cards after
they have completed the required
task; BASIS will attribute the
Knowledge Trail points to the
member after the event.
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Stephen Jacob, BASIS Chief
Executive, says: “We are
delighted that the Cereals Event
Knowledge Trail continues to go
from strength to strength, offering
Professional Register members
an excellent opportunity to earn
CPD points. Events such as
Cereals always present diverse
learning and knowledge transfer
opportunities and it is right that
our members can gain
recognition for this.
“With 5,839 Professional
Register members and growing,
the industry shows no lack of
appetite for maintain