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Soil Amendments and Water
Importance for Soil Fertility Jim Gregory
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Liebig's law of
the minimum
Growth is dictated not by
total resources available,
but by the scarcest
resource (limiting factor)
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Soil pH is a master variable in the
soil. Nearly everything in the
soil, whether chemical or
biological, is governed by soil pH.
Dr. Andrew Hoiberg
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Iron induced chlorosis
Irrigation water treatment
April 2013 before September 2013 after
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Maximum phosphate availability
to plants is obtained when the
soil pH is maintained in the
range of 6.0 to 7.0
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Phosphorus fixation as affected by soil pH
Western Fertilizer Handbook, Ninth Edition
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Acidic 0 10,000,000
1 1,000,000
2 100,000
3 10,000
4 1,000
5 100
6 10
Neutral 7 1
8 10
9 100
10 1,000
11 10,000
12 100,000
13 1,000,000
Alkaline 14 10,000,000
pH Scale
Is
Exponential
The divisions
are powers of
10 rather than
units
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Soil and water tests can tell us a lot.
Can help predict the health of the crop
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Most common soil amendments
• Gypsum
• Sulfur
• Sulfuric Acid
• Limestone / Dolomite
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Two types of Gypsum
• Dihydrate calcium sulfate (CaS04. 2H20),
contains about 20% chemically combined
water, othewise known as water of
crystallization. Anhydrous calcium sulfate
(CaS04), contains no water of crystallization.
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Gypsum
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Solution Grade Gypsum
• Gypsum will not
reduce
bicarbonates
• Except under
specific
conditions,
gypsum will not
reduce pH
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Sulfur
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Sulfur particle size will make a difference in how
quickly it breaks down
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Sulfuric Acid
• Sulfuric Acid or acid-based amendments can
be used to prevent or correct sodium
problems in calcareous soils. Before using
these amendments, it is important that soil
CaCO3 content be known. Sulfuric acid
dissolve soil carbonates and yield gypsum:
• CaCO3 + H2SO4 CaSO4 + H2O + CO2
• Na replaces Ca and NaSO4 is leached with water
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Sulfuric Acid
Is the most economical acid
Weights 15.3 pounds per gallon
Should be applied and handled by an
experienced supplier specializing in
this hazardous material
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Broadcast Preplant Application
with a Terrigator, 50 foot swaths
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Dolomite / Limestone
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Precision irrigation is the precise use of irrigation
water to achieve a specific agronomic goal
• One of these goals should be to have a target of what
the irrigation water pH should be
• Find out the existing water pH
• Decide what is the optimum pH for the situation
• Is it possible to manage the water pH at a precise
level?
• Managers are becoming increasingly aware and
engaging in pH monitoring
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pH is the second most measured
parameter in the world, second
only to temperature
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What is the pH of Pepsi?
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“As the water is, so then shall be the soil”
There is a trend, during the drought of the past
several years, that when irrigation wells are
lowered, that water quality from the lower
depth is decreasing. Higher levels of alkaline
water and salts are being placed in the root
zone of crops being irrigated.
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Water is Seldom Ideal
• We rarely encounter perfect irrigation water
• Most irrigation water can be improved
• Some water sources cannot be used for
sustained agricultural crop production without
being chemically improved
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Know Your Water Test Irrigation Water
Find out the salinity level and crop tolerance
EC dS/m3
Ca meg/L
Mg meg/L
Na meg/L
SAR Adj
SAR
Cl meg/L
CO3+HCO3 SO4 meg/L
B mg/L
pH unit
0.97 4.63 3.28 2.0 1.0 2.4 1.4 6.2 1.5 0.03 8.2
0.96 4.47 2.75 2.0 1.1 2.5 1.3 5.2 2.1 0.04 8.0
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pH is measured in the field with a
portable ph meter
pH Meters need to be calibrated
probably every week 8.4 pH of irrigation water
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Bicarbonate and carbonates
-are the most toxic anions that exists in relation to
plant health
-in water, has a direct adverse effects on some
plant species.
-there should be less than 2.0 meq/L carbonate
plus bicarbonate in irrigation water
-any amount in excess of 5.0 meq/l is considered
very high
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Installing liquid fertilizer indecton
equipment at city park
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City Park
August 2017 September 2017
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Uniform distribution
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In the long term, the soil will
become the quality of the water
This will depend on the buffering
capacity of the soil (calcium
carbonate), the Cation Exchange
Capacity or CEC, and the soil texture
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Closing thoughts
• Bicarbonate and carbonate are reduced by
injection of an acid in the irrigation water
• It may be possible to manage Clloride,
Sodium, and Boron by leaching
• Prevention is usually cheaper and more
practical than correction
• pH modification is practical and makes sense
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“If you want truly to
understand
something, try
to change it.” – Kurt Lewin
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