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LimeX helps maximise crop yield and profitability, containing four essential nutrients – calcium, phosphate, magnesium and sulphur.
LimeX is a truly versatile product, restoring pH in soils across a wide-range of arable crops including sugar beet, cereals, oilseeds, brassicas, carrots, potatoes and maize. LimeX is also widely used for soil pH correction in grassland and forage crops. Furthermore, it is used on many specialist field and glasshouse vegetable and horticultural crops.
LimeX has Soil Association approval for use in organic farming systems.
A unique feature of LimeX is its very fine particle size, which means it acts quickly to raise pH and is long lasting. LimeX is at least 85% passing 150 micron sieve and is greater than 95% reactive.
LimeX is Aglime Quality Standard (AQS) accredited and complies with UK national and EU regulatory standards. Rigorous annual testing by independent laboratories ensures its efficacy; confirming reactivity, neutralising value, fineness, calcium, phosphate, magnesium and sulphur content.
Low soil pH can have a significant impact on yield potential due to a reduction in the uptake of soil nutrients and applied fertiliser. LimeX corrects pH giving farmers confidence that their soils are best-placed for yield optimisation, delivering increased profitability.
“LimeX always spreads evenly across the spreader width which makes for an accurate application. I know for sure that farmers are seeing a very clear benefit over the cost of applying LimeX in their crop yields and grassland output.”
The visual benefits in establishment and growth in oilseed rape following an application of LimeX are incredible. There are a lot of repeat customers and their neighbours are also starting to ask for it.”
LimeX provides a great alternative in what is traditionally a high magnesium soil in this area. Calcium is a very important input here and the crop response to LimeX is dramatic.”
Malcolm Forbes, LimeX distributor, haulier and spreading contractor, Durham
"Many growers in Cornwall need a product which acts fast as they are short term tenants on fields for vegetable production. Alternative liming products don’t act fast enough for them to see the benefits but LimeX does!"
"LimeX is very competitive with other sources of lime supplied into the area, even when considering the transport costs from Newark and Wissington."
"It is very good at controlling clubroot in Brassicas, along with the added benefits of the extra nutrients, it is a great all-round product for vegetable producers."
"Some of the farmers in Cornwall have now started to use it on their grassland to increase productivity having seen the benefits on their other crops."
L.P. Stephens & Sons, approved haulage contractors and approved distributors, Truro
We spread LimeX in blocks across the farm as a repair (to restore the soil pH). We’re going on at 12 t/Ha at the minute. After next year, we will have been around the whole farm at that rate. We will then drop down to 8 t/Ha (to maintain the soil pH). We’ll probably be buying the same tonnage but just covering more area. It’s a hassle-free product.
We have contractors spread LimeX for us. This is one of the benefits of having it. You can have it delivered, tipped up in a field, and spread. It’s one less job for us to do at a busy time of the year. All our straw is chopped, so our K levels are pretty good. Having the phosphate (in LimeX) is handy to top that up. There are a lot of other nutrients in it as well; I don’t think you could buy them all in one fertiliser bag.
Stephen Battell, grows cereals, oilseed rape, sugar beet and spring beans in Diss, Suffolk.
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