RE: RE: RE: Using Moly as a Fertilizer - New Use!Here it is. I don't mean to be offensive in correcting your math or pointing out that your numbers substantiate the comments you are questioning. Hopefully this is of help to clarify the mistake in MSQ's presentation. I think it was probably some carelessness on their part. I really hope that this exaggerated optimistic type declaration is not common in their documents, studies etc.
MARSHALL - yor sayin that 250-500 grms is over by 1000% , so yor application of moly would be .25 - .5 grm. per acre may I respectfully say that wouldn't grow enough beans fer ya t be full of !
A: The presentation says 0.5 to 1 lb of Mo per acre fertilizer application. The actual numbers are 0.02 to 0.05 lb Mo per acre, so I should really say they overstated by 2000%.
A 1000% increase means 10x a value the number. If you buy CBS at .1$ and it rises to 1$ then you have a 1000% increase. It is not the same as a 1000x increase like you have deduced.
Here are the first 3 links brought up on google when I search 'Molybdenum Fertilizer'. Each contains numbers for the application of Moly as fertilizer. Each says between 0.02 lb/acre to 0.04 lb/acre application.
https://www.agronomypro.com/moly_farmjournal.pdf
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf072878g
https://info.ag.uidaho.edu/pdf/CIS/CIS1087.pdf
MARSHALL - Molybdenum only needs to be applied to pasture once every 3 to 4 years, typically at a rate of 50 to 100 g/ha Mo.
A: Here is the link where that quote is found,
Molybdenum Facts.
Some math to show those numbers are essentially the numbers I refer to.
1 hectare = 2.5 acre
Therefore 50 to 100 g/ha is equivalent to 20 to 40 g/acre
1 lb = 0.454 kg
That makes the application 0.044 to 0.088 lb/acre
Applied every 3 years
That gives an annual average application of 0.014 to 0.03 lb/acre.
Further info:
The USDA says there are about 900,000,000 acres of farmland in the US. This includes cropland, pastureland and woodland. I am being generous here because Moly is not going to be applied to a lot of pasture and woodland.
900,000,000 acres with a yearly dose of 0.04 lb/acre Mo is equivalent to 36M lbs (36,000,000), or about 8% of the world's total annual Mo production.
United States Fact Sheet: US agriculture
The following numbers are my guesses at reality, and not an ideal case:
More realistically speaking, only about 400,000,000 of that farmland will be candidate for Mo fertilizer.
Of those 400,000,000 acres it is likely that 30% will contain sufficient Mo for plant needs (>0.2 ppm) and will not likely be candidate for Mo fertilizer.
For the possible 280,000,000 acres an average yearly application of 0.02 lb/acre might be used.
That gives a whopping 5,600,000 lbs of Mo for fertilizer us per year in the US! That is just over 1% of total annual production (about 450,000,000 lbs).
What does Mosquito's presentation boldly point out?
The entire worlds (should be world's) yearly production of Molybdenum would be required to cover just the USA agricultural land.
So there ya go. Can I do anything else for ya today? Hope not because I just spent enough time typing that up.