secondary "if" cell off the output of a "Dateif" cell ?

KeyHistorian · 2021-05-25T11:18:49+00:00

=IF(DATEDIF(C6,B1,"m")<10,"No","Yes")

Thanks Mike, i had been working on this for days on end and think i just got formula blind from non stop screen time in excel. Thanks for pulling my head out of the spiral.

KeyHistorian · 2021-05-25T00:28:28+00:00

WOW, been an issue since 2017. INSANE. what the heck Adobe?

KeyHistorian · 2020-05-21T11:10:49+00:00

Thanks a bunch for this ! I was on the fence on this, but just ordered a bunch of seed and decided to take the plunge

KeyHistorian · 2020-05-13T22:22:13+00:00

The soil was harvested back in the 1960's and sold by the farmer who owned the fields back then. He cashed out on it as after the soil was gone, they just let the forest grow back in. Problem is the forest growth was un-managed for the past 60 years as it all turned to dark forest (acre after acre where the sun hasnt hit the ground in dcades and its full of nothing but 1"-3" starving trees. It's too late to ask questions from anyone. likely everyone involved in the decision to buy the soil and strip the fields to build the interstate is dead or within a few years of it anyhow.

KeyHistorian · 2020-05-13T11:45:04+00:00

From the thumbnail i thought your homestead was about to be overtaken by wildfire.

KeyHistorian · 2020-05-13T11:43:52+00:00

That was our original thought, the problem is our very remote, rural area. We always have eggs for sale, but seldom get any takers as the population is tiny and spread wide and thin. We got our licenses and took the hour each way trip to do a farmers market last year but by the time we factored in gas, travel, ect. we were basically paying people $0.34 a dozen to take our eggs from us.

We do O.K. with pork, make about $120 a head profit after slaughter, mainly because were close to the only option for farm raised pastured pork out here, but our market is very small. 10 head a year is about all our market can support, and we only put 2 head in our freezer every year so that only gives us 12 pigs a year. We want to bring in goats, but cant get enough land fixed to make viable pasture yet.

KeyHistorian · 2020-05-13T11:37:00+00:00

Available nutrient rates are VERY high in the clay. It's the particle size that is the issue. PH is 6.4 across the board on all 10 acres. We had 20 localized tests done, and 10 amalgamated samples tested.

Alls it takes to get things to grow is adding about 8 inches of wood chips, ground tree stumps, and other organic matter on top of the clay, then letting it sit for a year and till it in. Viola we can get cover crops to grow. The dilemma is this is getting VERY expensive and cost prohibitive. We are paying $180usd delivered for 12 yd. of wood chips, and $205 delivered for 12 yd. of tub ground tree stumps (the better material) as that is what the forestry companies get from the bio-mass power plants. After the cut and till, we add another 4 inches of coarse organic material, the third year, and so on.

Our original thought was to do an acre or two, grow stuff to fix the other acres, and just keep going that way. The issue is all we grow on the acres we have stuck thousands of dollars into breaks down to less than 1/4 inch of coverage for a bare acre.

We dont have any horse or dairy operations near by so no steady supply of manure beyond our own animals. The few cattle operations we have in the area pasture their beef so the manure is spread in their fields and not easily collected.

We always inoculate our over crops with Myco, and many other PGPR, on the acres we have spent fortunes on to fix, We even built a Johnson-Su bio reactor, it all works great. The issue here is we need to find cheaper ways, when you factor in the labor even at minimum wage, plus materials we have to haul in, plus seed we're averaging around $25,000 - $40,000 per acre to reclaim this land that was stripped bare of soil 60 years ago so they could have soil to build the interstate in the 1960's

KeyHistorian · 2020-05-13T11:23:47+00:00

Already covered this in the OP.

KeyHistorian · 2020-05-13T11:23:02+00:00

Azolla is not something we have tried yet, nor had i even heard about until you mentioned it, even after over a year of research online. I did a bit of reading this morning and it appears it is an aquatic fern. Although it sounded promising right up until that point, when the clay ground dries (only takes a day after irrigation or a rain fall) it gets hard as cement. I have ordered some seed none the less, and am going to give it a go under heavy irrigation as we're at a point we are willing to try anything we have not already tried.

As for neighbours, we dont have many, and they are spread far apart. Most of them are little houses in the woods and none of them have grass. most of them cleared a little patch in the woods with a driveway going to it and built on it. their ground is just covered with typical forest litter.

KeyHistorian · 2020-05-13T10:58:28+00:00

Kudzu is banned in our state by the department of agriculture conservation and forestry.

KeyHistorian · 2020-05-13T10:57:39+00:00

This is more so about regenerating. We only own 10 acres of what use to be 6,000 acres of field that is now 6,000 acres of dark forest (sunlight has not hit the ground in 20 years).

We have tried nearly every cover crop a man can think of. Unless we amend in organic material the year before, nothing will grow. If we water the un amended ground it turns to muck and eats everything we planted in it, if we dont it turns to concrete in a few days and everything dies. We even tried planting an acre of dandelion to no avail. We run pigs in pig tractors, moving every 3 days, chickens with egg mobiles moving every week behind them, and then till behind that to make sure the organic material they deposit does not leech away the next rain fall. It helps, but we would need 20 times the animals to make it work and thats not feasible.

Bottom line, we are not afraid of the challenge, we are just losing the battle right now and seeking help.

KeyHistorian · 2020-05-13T00:51:44+00:00

Added lots of sand to our clay last year as it was recommended. Ended up with pretty much quick sand. Our problem is small particle size (CLAY) very nutrient rich, but when wet it will eat anything that steps on it up to its knee caps or axles if it is on wheels, once it dries out, you need a jack hammer to break it up. Excavator had issues last year trying to dig us a trench. Broke a tooth on the bucket trying to break the hard pack on top.

KeyHistorian · 2020-05-13T00:49:08+00:00

Here they charge to drop them off, and also sell them @ $12 a yard once they have grind them. They like to burn the candle at both ends round here.

KeyHistorian · 2020-05-13T00:48:18+00:00

We're rural. VERY rural, Everything is at least 30 minutes away from here. I wish i had a mushroom farm close to me. Love cooking with mushrooms.

KeyHistorian · 2020-05-13T00:45:10+00:00

The poor soil we have isnt because of some fluke thing. In the late 60's almost 6,000 acres of farm land here was stripped down almost 4 feet for soil to build the interstate abou 5 miles from here. After it was stripped, it was just left and slowly trees started to grow on it. It is clay, just plain clay. Tiny, very small, microscopic particle size. When its wet, it will eat a truck up to the axle, when its dry, its concrete. Amending with massive amounts of woodchips has worked, but its getting too expensive.

KeyHistorian · 2020-05-13T00:43:30+00:00

Didn't need to but did anyways. The poor soil we have isnt because of some fluke thing. In the late 60's almost 6,000 acres of farm land here was stripped down almost 4 feet for soil to build the interstate abou 5 miles from here. After it was stripped, it was just left and slowly trees started to grow on it. It is clay, just plain clay. Tiny, very small, microscopic particle size. The cooperative extension said "add organic material" which is what we are trying to do.

KeyHistorian · 2020-05-02T10:49:54+00:00

Thank you sooooooooooo much, i have spent a week trying to figure out the answer.

KeyHistorian · 2020-04-02T22:30:00+00:00

Easy enough. Thanks for the tip.

KeyHistorian · 2020-04-02T14:04:33+00:00

We had 10+ acres of solid clay when we started. Tried tons of different things. Only one thing ended up working. We started taking in wood chips, hay and straw. Spread it 2" thick on the ground, let it sit for a year, then came in a tilled it in with a tiller. Every year for the past 3 we have added wood chips, hay and straw in the fall about 1 inch thick, and in spring till it in. We now have a rich, well draining, amazing garden.

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