You're right. Fertility is not as easy as getting the Co-op to bring out a tank of anhydrous and a spreader full of 9-23-30. Frankly, that doesn't work so well as it used to for conventional guys, either.
Good soil fertility involves manures and cover crops. I'm surely learning, and maybe not fast enough. I am working toward never having bare soil. If the crop is done, a cover crop is growing. I have 8500 laying hens, which helps greatly for manure, but I also buy more manure. Also, fertilizers can and should be used, but they cannot be heavily processed such as Muriate of Potash. Instead Potassium sulfate needs to be used. I'm spreading 175 ton of Hi-cal Lime this spring. As long as it doesn't have fillers and the mine is OMRI listed it can be used. I am soil testing every other year right now because the farm just came out of CRP and the PH and PK levels are depleted. Once I get them up to snuff, I'll go to a three or four year testing cycle.
As I said, I'm learning. I'll fill you in on what I figure out sometime in 2040 :-)
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