Thanks Lloyd and Tony, appreciate your feed back. Know what you mean Lloyd by jumping through the hoops, just don't want to do that anymore. Bad hoop jumper. I will locate a fax # in the next few days. Tony those were exactly the sort of breakdowns I'm looking for, thanks. I've got all the calculations, just don't want to work from an incitec brochure. Thanks for the further reading, my 4 month summer break will be full of such reading.
Whilst here, have any of you attended a Stoneage Farming course by Alanna Moore? Have a chance to go to one in Mudgee in Nov, sounds interesting. Feeding 620 tonight so I'm off to the kitchen now. L&L Liz on 19/10/02 4:47 AM, Rambler Flowers LTD at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Liz Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 8:27 AM > Subject: Organic Inputs > > >> Hi all >> >> Was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction for some > info >> needed for an exam. It's a soil exam and I'm soooo tired of costing out >> their NPK, understandable they want their land managers to know how to >> calculate amounts, but their fertilisers are not something I want to work >> with. Therefore I need % breakdowns of constituents for this exercise. I >> realise this may be difficult to apply to BD, but other organic inputs > would >> work well. If anyone knows where I can get such breakdowns I'd like to >> follow through this exam as ecologically as possible. >> >> Thanks for your time >> >> L&L >> Liz >> > Hi Liz This is what I use on for an intensive flower growing operation. > > Fish 6-5-5 N.P.K > Seaweed. 1.5 -.5- 2.5 > Feldspar 0 - 0 - 9 > Horse .7 -.2 -.4 > Poultry 1.3 - .7 - .7 > Cow .5-0.3-0.7 > Blood and Bone meal 7-7-0 > Rock dust 0-0.52-1.1 - Mg 5.9- Na 2.2Trace elements > PHosphate soft 0-2-0 > Greensand [glauconite] 7%K > > The products i use in Non toxic CEC soil balancing > Calcium 36% > Gypsum 23% Ca 18% S > Calcium Nitrate 15-0-0-19Ca > Sulphate Potash 0-0-50 > Sulphate Ammonia 21-0-0-24S > > Do you want the formula for Fertiliser Requirement Calculations using > "Base Saturation" Data > > Some of these values do change a point or two depending on what book you > are reading. > If you get a chance read the following books > >>> For further research read >>> Non_Toxic Farming Handbook by Philip Wheeler and Ronald Ward. >>> Science in Agriculture by Arden Anderson >>> Farming in the 21st Century by Dan Skow >>> Source of books Acres USA web site http://www.acresusa.com >>> > Best wishes with your exams > Cheers Tony Robinson > >
