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Understanding the effects of spading uniformity and lime application to manage subsoil acidity
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Understanding the effects of spading uniformity and lime application to manage subsoil acidity

Sam Trengove, Stuart Sherriff, Jordan Bruce, Brian Hughes, Mustafa Ucgul, Jack Desbiolles and Sarah Noack
Grains Research & Development Corporation
31/10/2023
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Agricultural engineering
There are a range of machinery options that can provide different levels of lime incorporation such as spading. However, research to date on rotary spaders has shown soil/amendment mixing is not uniform due to the cyclical process, and the mixing quality reduces significantly at faster speed (Ucgul et al. 2019). This trial aimed to understand how the uniformity of soil-lime mixing by spading affected crop response and soil pH.

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