Calcium Products – North America’s leading producer of precision soil amendments that improve soil quality to maximize nutrient uptake and strengthen yields – recently celebrated the grand opening of its new headquarters located at the Iowa State University Research Park. Included is a new research and development laboratory and customer support center. Company CEO Mike Hogan also announced the expansion …
There’s Still Time to Apply Lime
Why waiting to correct soil pH can decrease yields Gilmore City, IA — For growers unable to apply lime last fall, a new generation of engineered lime products are a solution that can be applied year-round. Unlike standard ag lime, advanced soil amendment products such as SuperCal 98G provide fast and complete soil pH changes because of they contain extremely …
Conference on Improved Testing of Liming Materials
On 12 November 2013, members of the U.S. agricultural lime industry met near Iowa State University to discuss improving the measurement of limestone reactivity to better predict pH changes in soils. The goal of this conference was to compare current practices with other developed methodologies to determine if there are opportunities to improve measuring limestone reactivity in soils among a …