Provides enough Lime to lessen your current pasture liming requirements.
Golden Bay Dolomite is more effective in its liming reaction than high purity agricultural lime.
Where both magnesium and lime are required, the 110% liming effect of Dolomite should never be overlooked.
Calcium is a critically important nutrient and calcium nutrition is much more important for plant, animal and microbe health, and weed pressure, than for pH management. If you correct calcium as a nutrient, and balance it with the other core captions such as magnesium, potassium and sodium etc, then pH takes care of itself. Calcium is called the "trucker of all minerals" because it is intimately involved in the movement of nutrients in and out of the cell. This applies to microbes as much as to plants and animals. Calcium is also the key mineral determining cell strength as, in combination with silica; it is built into the cell wall. Shelf-life, resistance to disease and reduced insect pressure are all benefits of increased cell strength.
Dolomite is a major source of calcium, a vital plant nutrient. Calcium deficiency causes stunted growth, restricted leaf development and paleness at leaf margins.
Dolomite reduces soil acidity neutralizing acid soils, the effect of applying dolomite where both calcium and magnesium adjust soil pH to the level desired by plants and crops. The Magnesium content of dolomite has 1.7 times more exchange capacity than the equal amount of calcium.
Broadleaf weeds. These are indicator weeds that germinate where calcium is lacking. This alone should be enough to indicate the need for calcium, but look for other signs. Check the brix levels in the pasture. A refractometer offers a reliable guideline to calcium levels in the crop. If the plant contains good levels of calcium, the indicator line is fuzzy and indistinct, but it sharpens and becomes more defined as calcium becomes deficient. If the sap pH is low in the pasture this also helps to confirm a calcium shortage. It is obvious that if you are exporting calcium off the farm twice a day as milk (dairy farming), you do need to compensate for this removal. If a penetrometer reveals a tight, closed soil with a hardpan at 20 cm, this is yet another indicator of a soil screaming out for the flocculating force of calcium.
Golden Bay Dolomite is more effective in its liming reaction than high purity agricultural lime.
Where both magnesium and lime are required, the 110% liming effect of Dolomite should never be overlooked.
Calcium is a critically important nutrient and calcium nutrition is much more important for plant, animal and microbe health, and weed pressure, than for pH management. If you correct calcium as a nutrient, and balance it with the other core captions such as magnesium, potassium and sodium etc, then pH takes care of itself. Calcium is called the "trucker of all minerals" because it is intimately involved in the movement of nutrients in and out of the cell. This applies to microbes as much as to plants and animals. Calcium is also the key mineral determining cell strength as, in combination with silica; it is built into the cell wall. Shelf-life, resistance to disease and reduced insect pressure are all benefits of increased cell strength.
Dolomite is a major source of calcium, a vital plant nutrient. Calcium deficiency causes stunted growth, restricted leaf development and paleness at leaf margins.
Dolomite reduces soil acidity neutralizing acid soils, the effect of applying dolomite where both calcium and magnesium adjust soil pH to the level desired by plants and crops. The Magnesium content of dolomite has 1.7 times more exchange capacity than the equal amount of calcium.
Broadleaf weeds. These are indicator weeds that germinate where calcium is lacking. This alone should be enough to indicate the need for calcium, but look for other signs. Check the brix levels in the pasture. A refractometer offers a reliable guideline to calcium levels in the crop. If the plant contains good levels of calcium, the indicator line is fuzzy and indistinct, but it sharpens and becomes more defined as calcium becomes deficient. If the sap pH is low in the pasture this also helps to confirm a calcium shortage. It is obvious that if you are exporting calcium off the farm twice a day as milk (dairy farming), you do need to compensate for this removal. If a penetrometer reveals a tight, closed soil with a hardpan at 20 cm, this is yet another indicator of a soil screaming out for the flocculating force of calcium.
