Lime or Liquid Calcium?

TimWafer · May 5, 2019

I keep seeing ads for Liquid Calcium to raise PH instead of lime. Prices on it seem to vary quite a bit. Claims seem to be too good to be true. Are they? Anyone have real experience with it?

john in la · May 5, 2019

The link will explain it better than I can.
Beware of Alternatives when Purchasing Agricultural Lime

MJMJ · May 5, 2019

(quoted from post at 09:33:18 05/05/19) . Claims seem to be too good to be true. Are they?

Yes.

JD Seller · May 5, 2019

Liquid calcium makes the fellows selling it a LOT of money.

Just buy lime and be done with it. What many say is lime takes too long to act. Well it is true for it to completely change takes up to 24-36 months. You will get 30-40% of it in the first 12 months. So applying 2-3 ton per acre will get you right at a ton converted the first year. Then you get more as time goes on. So you can buy tons of the cheaper lime and get the same conversion as the "quick liquid" for a cheaper price plus get more later.

How I applied lime for years on my home farm, is apply it when I spread manure. I usually put a 1/2 load of manure per acre, about 200 bushels of bedding pack manure. So I just have a lime pile handy and put a few ton on the top of the manure load when I need lime. I can get lime dumped in a pile, semi load at a time, for right under $10 a ton here.

showcrop · May 6, 2019

One of my field owners had it applied to his extensive lawn by his landscaping company, one spring. That fall I was spreading wet lime and he asked me to spread on his lawn too.

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