{"id":5972,"date":"2019-11-23T11:32:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T16:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=5972"},"modified":"2019-11-23T11:32:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T16:32:30","slug":"not-an-approaching-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/not-an-approaching-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Not an approaching storm&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/lime.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/lime-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Lime Truck\" class=\"wp-image-5973\" width=\"271\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/lime-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/lime-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/lime-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/lime.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\n&#8230;but an approaching lime truck. Our pH averaged about 5.8 across the farm and we decided to bring it back up over 6.0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re adding one to two tons of dolomitic lime per acre&#8230;depending on what soil testing revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think this is the best investment you can make in a pasture. It not only kicks up the yield and feeds soil biology, I\u2019m convinced it is one of the reasons Thistle Hill beef and pork just tastes better! IMHO<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good timing too&#8230;if we can get it all down. Two days of rain coming to soak it in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incidentally over the years we\u2019ve found some difference among soil tests&#8230;with the State recommending higher applications than private labs. Just saying!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but an approaching lime truck. Our pH averaged about 5.8 across the farm and we decided to bring it back up over 6.0. We\u2019re adding one to two tons of dolomitic lime per acre&#8230;depending on what soil testing revealed. I think this is the best investment you can make in a pasture. It not only kicks up the yield and feeds soil biology, I\u2019m convinced it is one of the reasons Thistle Hill beef and pork just tastes better! IMHO Good timing too&#8230;if we can get it all down. Two days of rain coming to soak it in. Incidentally over the years we\u2019ve found some difference among soil tests&#8230;with the State recommending higher applications than private labs. Just saying! David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,8,10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-nutrition","category-pasture","category-soil"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5975,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions\/5975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}