Re: O/T Wood Ash

Posted by RM in Va. on September 24, 2006 at 22:59:24 from (209.145.81.12):

In Reply to: Re: O/T Wood Ash posted by Coloken on September 24, 2006 at 20:45:16:

The power plant is located in Grit Va. It uses left overs from wood mills mainly, that are from Big Island near Bedford Va. to Roxboro Nc. There are 6 mills on or near rt. 501 ranging from a paper mill, osb mills and one plywood mill. The power plant puts out about 100 tons of ash per day. The bulk of it goes on farms here. Most of this area has to have lime every 3 years or less. So the ash gets used up instead of going in a land fill.

Since soy beans have made a come back here lots of ash is being used on bean land. Most of that soil was down to 5 ph. or less. It'll sure make a soy bean grow if we get rain.

I take soil samples so I know what to put down. Last year I used 220 tons. Got 400 ton this time and have about 300 tons in a pile to spread now. Most of my soil will need 2 tons of lime every 3 years. I would break the farm up in 3rds and apply some lime on a thrid each year. At $34 per ton spread it ain't cheap anymore.

Replies:

• Re: O/T Wood Ash Coloken 06:37:46 09/25/06 (1)
  • Re: O/T Wood Ash Chad Franke 12:29:45 09/25/06 (0)

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