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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>]

Donna wrote, "Boron deficiency is common or rare depending on where you 
are."

   Where bedrock is close to the surface, the soil can be rapidly depleted 
of boron.  We experienced low boron levels in some of Kimberly-Clark's test 
plots in Northeastern Wisconsin that had limestone bedrock a foot or two 
down.  I saw it again when I farmed in the foothills of the Sierras in 
Central California where topsoil was only inches thick in places with 
granitic rock beneath.

Jim Fruth
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