Ag lime price in your area

The local co op doesn't carry ag lime, just pelletized. Their price for pelletized is $178/ton. Since I need 125 tons, that is right out. I called a quarry about ag lime, but I haven't been able to get anyone to answer the phone. Hopefully just because it's president's day. What are the prices in your area?
 
I think I paid $20 a ton to have it applied. The quarry is close by and has high quality dolomitic lime with calcium content almost 40% and magnesium close to 10%.
 
The Mrs. is county supervisor and she has gotten for prices for liming the county farm--11$-18$ per ton. NE Iowa ---Tee
 
Varies quite a bit due to distance from quarry and the quality of lime. I has 20 tons delivered last year for $25/ton. I had to spread myself. There was a closer quarry with cheaper lime, but this was better stuff.
 
Hard to give you a good answer. Lime produced in this area varies considerably in ENV. Content also varies in terms of magnesium, clacium, etc.. Local sources have tapped out or have discontinued due to lack of profitability. Some lime comes from near Buffalo, NY so a fair amount of cost is transportation. If a person could line it up as a back haul from near Buffalo that would lower the per ton cost appreciably. A guesstimate would be 50-70 bucks per ton for at least 95 percent ENV FOB the quarry with an additional charge for spreading or renting a spreader.
 
What are you using it for? My understanding was pelletized lime was only good for a year? I may be remembering incorrectly...farming is a sideline for me, I am an accountant, so I may have forgotten what I was told. I wanted to use pelletized lime because I could spread it myself without a lot of risk and the elevator carried it, but it was not the best option.
 
In November 2017 I had 2 tons per acre of lime applied on 86 acres. $18.00/ton, spreading $5.00/ton. Emg-3, Enm-410. Quarry is approximately 5 miles away.
 
You'll see people say things like that online, but it's not really accurate. Pelletized lime is just regular ag lime crushed into a powder and the pressed into pellets. Because it's crushed into smaller particles, it dissolves quicker than bulk ag lime, but the affects on the soil also last a shorter period of time for the same reason. But to say it only lasts year isn't really correct. It may, or it may last longer or even less. Just depends on the soil.
 
Last I knew pelletized lime in 40 or 50 lb bags was 200 per ton delivered. I haven't used powdered lime for quite a while. While we are on it fertilizer is $4=700 per ton in bags. Yes large bulk bags are cheaper.
 
Thought pellet lime had about 3x the neutralizing value of quarry lime due to difference in calcium content. Then the application rate for pellet lime is about one-fourth or one-third the application rate for quarry lime on per acre basis. Our quarry lime is around 26 % calcium ,most pellet lime is like 90 %.
 

Ten years ago I paid $32.00 a ton with the quarry two and half hours away. As others have said the trucking is a very big part of it. After all it is just dirt.
 
I have not priced lime in a couple of years. It was about 40per ton spread. That was for the grid sample application. 2.5 acres grids.
 
I can get that city lime from the water plants for about 22 or so per ton spread. It is finer so it works faster I'm told but doesn't last as long due to the finer and acting quicker.
 

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