Well, I see a very nice soil that's come together over the years.
I really enjoyed looking at this, and the credit can't go to me - as others gave you the advice that got you thus far.
Hats off to them.
Really, this is "the year" in terms of things aligning. Now, there's still some work to do - but it's looking pretty good.
From my perspective, the soils in the front and back are essentially the same on this test, so I'll treat them as such. I'm assuming you want the micros analyzed, so I'll leave it up to Andy to see if different needs exist there.
In all these tests, it would be very easy to look at this year and last year and miss the forest for those two trees - getting caught up in why that TEC moved around for instance. I'm not going to do too much of that, though - the progress and trend of this soil are much more apparent when comparing the overall trends, particularly that first test in 2013 with 2017's. Perhaps you have some varying soil horizons with OM pockets that account for the minor changes? "Sampling variance"? Things getting pushed around a bit as you added lots of Ca in the past? All of the above?
The big picture looks so much better that I'm not concerned particularly about why there's this one tree doing a few weird things. Throw out this year, I'm assuming you're still a slightly sandy loam. Compare that TEC of 3 to start, then several years of 5's, and we arrive at 11/12. Very nice trend! Still slightly sandy loam given the big picture IMO.
So, I'm shifting you into more of a "land the plane" mode.
That OM number is good, and consistently good. I wouldn't worry too much about the outlier test last year showing 7 in one zone and getting worried - 5+ is good. But, you've heard the speech - more is almost always better here. Mulch mow etc. But you have a nice level.
This year that pH measured right in the sweet spot at 6.5! Look at 2013 - 5.1?!?!?!? Acidic. You are now well balanced. The pH is good because you worked hard to increase deficient major cations (Ca, Mg, K) which all show an increase of raw levels over the years.
The Mg and K do show minor deficiencies compared to your level of Calcium, but they aren't bad. Nonetheless, let's do a little bit of work here - slowly - so we don't push your pH to a place where Iron uptake is problematic.
Apply 2 lbs / K SOP April, June, and September.
Apply 2 lbs / K epsom salts April and September, two weeks from the SOP.
Your P level is luxurious. Nothing to do there.
Iron level is likewise very good, and your soil isn't too alkaline to use it - so I'm not going to recommend anything as necessary here. If you want it greener, I'm sure you've memorized the milo mantra here by now.
Other things like sodium and sulfur look fine.
That really leaves a Nitrogen program, which I'm sure you have under control, and micros - which you may need to remind andy to look at given how busy we get.
Nice work! Land that plane!
