Calcifert as soil conditioner

The Calcifert granulated soil conditioner range offers some great benefits to all crop types and farm use. Discover the benefits below.

Product benefits

The Calcifert granulated soil conditioner range offers a great range of benefits, including:

• Can be applied using standard spreading equipment.
• Produced in the UK.
• Suitable for use on all farms, including organic systems (Calcifert Lime and Mag), forestry, and horticultural use.
• Ideal for all crops, including grassland, cereals, fruit & vegetables, oilseed rape, and hops.

Packaging Calcifert

Calcifert granulated products are available in:

• Standard 600 kg bags

Spreader settings and application recommendation

You can apply our Calcifert products via a conventional fertiliser spreader. Independent tests have shown that Calcifert granulated products can be accurately spread up to 36-metre bout widths.

Spreader setting results

Trials with a range of leading fertiliser spreaders have shown that Calcifert granulated products spread to 36 metres and have a Coefficient of Variance of less than 10%.  We have tested the following:

• Teagle Centerliner SX
• Amazone ZA-M
• Kuhn Axis
• Accord HL
• KRM Ex trend
• KRM M35
  
  Find out more on spreader settings here .

Calcifert Lime

Calcifert granulated Lime is proven to neutralise soil acidity. Made from fine limestone flour combined with a water-soluble organic binder, Calcifert Lime consists of hard granules between 2mm and 5mm in diameter. Calcifert Lime has many benefits over conventional lime. The biggest benefit is that Calcifert Lime doesn’t need to be applied by specialist contractors – it can be applied using conventional farm fertiliser spreading equipment year-round. It is also a cost-effective way to control soil pH with our highly reactive product rapidly.

Calcifert Lime product details

Monitoring the pH of your soil is key to improving crop performance, as low soil pH will reduce crop growth and ultimately yield. Calcifert is proven to quickly raise and sustain soil pH at various soil depths, as our trial carried out at Tiln Farm in Nottinghamshire shows.

• Agricultural Lime Association assured under the AQS
• A cost-effective way of controlling pH
• Approved for organic farming
• Neutralising value of 54
• Produced from 100% British limestone

Data:

• Product Analysis: Ca 39.3%, CaO 55%, M <0.5%, MgO <0.5%
• Neutralising value (as CaO): 54
• Moisture content: <0.5%
• Reactivity (HCI): 97%

Calcifert Sulphur

Calcifert Sulphur is a quick and easy way to supply both calcium and sulphur to your soil. With a typical analysis of calcium as CaO: 39% and sulphur expressed as SO₃: 56%, Calcifert Sulphur is one of the purest calcium sulphate products on the market for arable and grassland soils deficient in calcium and sulphur. Calcifert Sulphur has a neutralising value of zero, meaning it won’t affect the pH of your soil. Calcifert Sulphur is a granulated calcium sulphate product.

Trials of Calcifert Sulphur have resulted in:

• Strengthening of the plant’s physical structure, helping to protect against disease and use sunlight and nutrients more efficiently.
• Improvements to spring barley yield where there was a sulphur deficiency.
• Increase in grass protein levels in three on consecutive silage cuts on grassland.
• Improved digestibility of grass forage.
• Improved soil structure and workability by reducing compaction caused by equipment and livestock.

Data:

• Product Analysis: Ca 27.9%, CaO 39%, S 22.4%, SO ₃ 56%
• Neutralising value (as CaO): 1
• Moisture content: <0.5%

Calcifert LS11

Introducing our latest product of granulated Lime and Calcium Sulphate made to help boost your soil and plant health. An innovative new soil treatment available for the first time to UK farmers aims to balance soil pH and supply essential Calcium and Sulphur to soils in one easy, cost-effective application.

Calcifert LS11 both neutralises soil to maintain a balanced pH and contains 11% SO₃ to help address the widespread sulphur deficiency on UK farmland.

Calcifert LS11 is suitable for all cropping situations that have a requirement for both soil neutralisation and a Sulphur supply. The high percentage of Calcium Lime will optimise the soil pH, being pure high-reactivity Calcium Carbonate, making more nutrients bioavailable. The Calcium Sulphate portion of the product will supply much-needed plant available Calcium and Sulphur, which are commonly undersupplied in crop nutrient management plans.

Data:

• Product Analysis: Ca 37%, CaO 52%, S 4.5%, SO ₃ 11%
• Neutralising value (as CaO): 44
• Moisture content: <0.5%
• Reactivity (HCI): 99%

Documentation

Here you can find guidelines for the recommended application of Calcifert Lime for different soils and field pH. You can also find brochures, datasheets and spreader settings. Alternatively, please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions!