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In response to the above post,lime for us is always a landowner cost. I don’t like the termination every year thing but ours do include the new lease with the ones we are going to continue. The principal owner of the business I work for went thru the 80s lots of hard lessons learned.
 
Some more good points to consider. Chopping silage also removes more of the nutrients, specifically P & K that I'm concerned about. The tenant would need to apply more P&K to keep the soil fertility up if chopping silage vs just pulling the grain. Lime has been something that we've mostly paid for, but I have also recently had tenants pay for lime, so, it depends. I feel it is something the tenant is "using" up via fertilization, but when the tenants started farming some of the ground it was low, so I paid to get it in a decent range but going forward I may expect the tenant to contribute more to the cost since it's my understanding that Nitrogen makes the soil more acidic. Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm constantly learning.....
 
Any practice that removes crop residue willremove nutrients, Baling corn stalks is one that comes to mind.I have seen tenants in the last year of a lease bale soybean stubble. Most of the time these are not issues but good to understand that they could exist. I have recently seen some reluctance for tenants to sign leases that were overly complicated and heavily in favor of the landowner. This is probably due to lower projected crop prices the next few years.
 
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