yoderjac
5 year old buck +
It has been a while since I limed so I took some soil samples last week and sent them off to VT. I talked to my neighbor who is a beginning small commercial farmer and he said he was having a hard time finding lime. We have several local quarries. He said they had shut down in Dec. He was finally able to get a dump truck load but didn't realize he needed a lime buggy to spread it. When I chatted with the coop manager, he confirmed they have no lime on hand like usual. They are spreading it for folks as it becomes available. He said that most folks around here all want it spread in the spring and that by summer it should be readily available, so it looks like I'll hold off and spread before the fall plant.
When I asked about gly he said the shortage was pretty bad. He expects to begin to see it delivered in the next couple weeks but they won't even price it until it is shipped. Based on looking at on-line prices I'm expecting to see it run around $1,000 for a 30 gal drum. For the last few years, I've been mainly using interline (Liberty generic) for burn-down with a little gly added to it. I was able to order it from Rural King for $99 for a 2 1/2 gal jug. Now Rural King no longer ships it and says it is "in-store only". We only have one RK in reasonable driving distance and it and even those further way show it out of stock. On-line prices at other places are closer to $280 for 2 1/2 gal. When I do the math, even at $1,000 gly is about 1/2 the cost on a per acre basis.
How do these things look in other areas?
Thanks,
Jack
When I asked about gly he said the shortage was pretty bad. He expects to begin to see it delivered in the next couple weeks but they won't even price it until it is shipped. Based on looking at on-line prices I'm expecting to see it run around $1,000 for a 30 gal drum. For the last few years, I've been mainly using interline (Liberty generic) for burn-down with a little gly added to it. I was able to order it from Rural King for $99 for a 2 1/2 gal jug. Now Rural King no longer ships it and says it is "in-store only". We only have one RK in reasonable driving distance and it and even those further way show it out of stock. On-line prices at other places are closer to $280 for 2 1/2 gal. When I do the math, even at $1,000 gly is about 1/2 the cost on a per acre basis.
How do these things look in other areas?
Thanks,
Jack