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[Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com>]

A couple months back I asked members if they had any knowledge of a company called International Ag Labs Inc. because I was puzzled by their analysis of 3 sites in the southeastern NY vacinity.  I also asked if anyone could explain  the very high pH of the soils when their data showed deficiency in base forming minerals- particularly calcium and magnesium.

 

No one gave me an adequate explanation and I ended up sending a couple of  samples from the same sites to Cornell.  Well, Cornell found very high quantities or calcium and magnesium and their results make perfect sense to my feable mind. 

 

Thought a few of you might appreciate this as a cautionary tale.  I now can easily manage the soil without prescribing to IAL Inc's complicated and self serving recipe of amendments (they sell them).   I wonder how much my client paid them for the tests?