Soil pH

So getting it out this time of year is a good way of just getting that process going.

And it's important to bear in mind that it's important to not, to take a soil sample for at least two years after going with lime that's just something that we were talking about there earlier this morning with some of our reps and yeah the importance of fixing soil pH is the first thing to get right when we're talking about soil fertility and nutrient management planning looking for 6.3 to 6.5 for for grasslands a bit higher for other other crafts in the in on the tillage side of things but um yeah the next couple of months is a good opportunity to go with lime if that's what you need on your farm

definitely john definitely and i suppose we're in uh our world now where there's reducing allowances on chemical fertilizers so just making sure we've our pH right so we can mineralize the maximum amount of nitrogen we can from the soil and also use the all the phosphorus that is in the soil I suppose when pH drops phosphorus kind of binds the soil and becomes locked up and becomes unavailable to the plants so I suppose just having it at that optimum level that you mentioned is going to be critical there going forward especially with farms there that have little to no P notes.

Very good.

Interestingly, bacterial diversity increased and the microbial community changed substantially under long-term grape cultivation.

Soil pH and labile phosphorus were the strongest factors shaping these communities, while azospora emerged as an important microbial connector between phosphorus fractions and bacterial networks.

The results suggest that long-term viticulture can redistribute soil phosphorus toward more available forms.

A study from Tuscany has investigated whether yeast-based biostimulants can improve grape aroma under hot and dry conditions.

Researchers applied two products made from fractions of inactivated yeast to vermentino vines during veraison applying them either twice or three times across two hot, dry seasons.

So that's one reason we do it.

Another reason, and this is kind of minor, but being acidifying, there are some potato diseases, soil diseases, that can be more problematic in higher pH soils.

and so a little sulfur lowering the ph a little bit helps now on the dusted sulfur on the surface is not going to change the ph of the soil but at least right around there it is having kind of that effect so that i would just say is minor to minuscule at best but the main reason is to protect that surface from decaying sulfur is one of the elemental products it's not it's not a synthetic You put it down.

We put sulfur down to lower soil pH.