Years ago, my Dad applied borated gypsum to our established alfalfa fields. I don"t know if it might have been coincidence, but that year our alfalfa yield was more than twice what we got the year before. After that we put on borated gypsum about every 4 or 5 years.
I don"t know if my Dad ever did any soil testing, but he might have. He was always reading about farming theories and he might have read that alfalfa needs boron to do well. I wish he was still around to ask him about this topic, but he died 17 years ago. I sure learned a lot from him and I miss him every day.
A way of testing if the crop you are planting would benefit by adding small amounts of different micronutrients would be to try some on a few acres by adding them to the fertilizer when it is applied. If that part of the crop looks and grows better, maybe you are on to something. Whether it would be worth it economically would be something else to try to figure out. Good luck!
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