I've done some work with this type of lime material. "Typically", this lime will have a higher "effective neutralizing material" rating than most conventional lime sources. Here in Missouri, "most" (conventional) lime will contain 350-450 pounds per ton. The analysis' I've seen from the water treatment plants will be almost twice that.....usually running upwards of 7-800 pounds of neutralizing material per ton. AS has been mentioned below, this material needs to be hauled in dump trucks and let dry. Spreading via manure spreaders is hard on the spreader and often results in WAY too much overapplication. In other words, you can't spread it thin enough via a manure spreader. A conventional spreader will apply (in the ball park) 20 tons per acre of manure. "At most" you will only need apply 2-3 tons of the water treatment lime per acre. It would be easy to create a problem with the use of a conventional manure spreader. As for the quality of the treatment plant lime....it is VERY good. It is an excellent product for agricultural use....it just has "handling" problems. 'Best solution is to haul the wet material to your farm via dump trucks, let sit till dry, load onto a regular lime bed applicator and spread. Works good. I CAN tell you that shoveling a load of lime off the top of a busted floor chain in a manure spreader IS more pleasant than shoveling a load of manure.
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