I went and ran my disk for hours today. I just like the tractor seat time and the smell of fresh worked dirt.

I did. Bought a 10 ft Tufline. So far I like it. My 65 HP kubota pulls it with no problem at all.

I've read where you said a healthy soil only has to be "topped off" with nutrients. How many lbs of K and P, recommended by a soil test, do you consider "topping off?"

As always CNC very impressive. Lots of respect for what you do. I always enjoy your posts

Every soil is going to be different. You may naturally have a soil that holds onto nutrients better than my sand pit. Therefore the rate at which my nutrients leach from the soil may vary greatly from your soil. I can’t just give you absolute numbers that will fit everyone’s individual prescription. This is something that you will have to use your own soil tests to assess. If you have gotten tests done every year then look back over the tests and look at how well the soil held onto the nutrients after you applied them. Then compare those trends moving forward. The goal for all of us is to try and build up a bank of stored nutrients and then efficiently recycle those nutrients through the plant and back to the soil without having to continually add mass amounts of inputs that will ultimately get used very inefficiently and end up in the ditch.

I will say this too…..Looking at a soil test is just one of the many ways in which you can monitor improvements in your soil health. The majority of them will be things that you monitor in the field with your eyes and hands.

I don’t think you understand enough about soil tests to understand what you are asking and trying to compare. However, to appease the hoard….I will add 50 lbs of 34-0-0 at planting time and I may or may not add 50-100 lbs of 0-0-60 just depending on how well my soil test shows that I’ve held onto the potash I applied back during the spring. I'm sure my summer plot has taken up some of that K. Now that’s pretty irrelevant but you guys can draw what ever anecdotal conclusions from it that sound best to you.

What are you talking about? I asked you what you deemed "topping off" for your plots. You have been practicing throw and mow for a while. What's wrong with asking that question? That's why I asked, cause I would've thought that adding fertilizer Spring and Fall would be excessive.

A couple of short videos to throw into the discussion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apyyIS31tVU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNwdmECsKuo

Do any of these videos feature your soil test or your food plots and why you're having to add fertilizer Spring and Fall?

Where the hell is blumsden???.....

I got better things to do, than to try and convince a bunch of hard cases to try something new. I really don't care how anyone plants their plots.