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The Effects ofTM
on a High Salinity Soil near the Salton Sea
This particular test was a 2.24-Acre test that was in the
process of being Re-claimed. For the past 20+ years nosustainable
crop had been planted as a result of the soil being heavily sodium
rich, meaning sailing levels were offthe charts and much
traditional ground work, leaching of the soil, Gypsum application
needed to be done.
Due to the recent economic downturn the field was fallowed with
an existing Barley Crop for approx. 7 months.As a result of
fallowing various weeds were allowed to return such as Salt Cedar
and Russian thistlepredominately. These weeds being very salt
tolerant clearly pointing out that the salinity levels were
increasingagain and the weeds were on an average 4- 5 tall and very
thick.
For the purpose of Research using the ExceleriteTM,the decision
was made to continue soil reclamation of thesite and plant a Barley
cover crop. We began with pre-irrigating the ground to help
facilities clean up. We thenused a heavy Disc (24 plates) to knock
down all the weeds. We disked one way and cross-disked the other.
Wedid not re-laser level the field. We then lightly irrigated the
field and disked the remaining green matter into thesoil. Next we
drew our boarders, planted the seed, applied ExceleriteTM, lightly
disked and irrigated
Planting SchedulePre- Irrigate: 10/06/09 to 10/08/09Disc/ Clean
up: 10/13/09, 10/23/09, and 10/27/09Plant Barley Seed:
10/30/09Apply ExceleriteTM: 10/30/09Light Disc: 10/30/09Irrigate:
11/05/09 thru 11/07/09
Research
Plant: 2.24 Acres with Barley Solum @ 100 lbs. per acre
ExceleriteTM application: 500 lbs. per acre or approx. 24 bags
+/-Overall planting: 7 acres total planted to Barley in 25 plots
(area between borders). All
plots measure 350 x 40 with the exception of plot #1 & 25,
thesetwo measured 350 x 20.Plots with ExceleriteTM application are;
Plot #s 2, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22 & 237plots total.
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US Rare Earth, Inc. PO Box 9759 Bend, OR 97708
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ResultsAs you can see in the 1st photo above, with out the use
of Excelerite the plot was very poor, the Barley is uneven and
it
only grew in spots but most of all after it never topped. Solum
Barley can attain a height of 40 inches depending on thegrowing
conditions. In the other two photos show the plots with using
Excelerite were green, full and most of all not40 but close to 60
tall and had beautiful tops. None of the test plots used NPK and
the plots were only irrigated for 3days.
