Generated by All in One SEO Pro v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # RDS Coleman Consulting for optimum paddock productivity ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://rdscoleman.com.au/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Pages - [Home](https://rdscoleman.com.au/) - RDS Coleman Consulting have extensive hands-on experience in soil, plant and animal nutrition across South Australia, Adelaide Hills, Fleurieu Peninsula, and South East. With nearly two decades of practical experience and knowledge in improving pasture and crop productivity. Improving pastures and feed crops with our products of Lime, Gypsum, Calcium, Magnesite, Hi-Mag. Our area of particular speciality is being able to quickly get a clear understanding of the enterprise, the soils and fertilisation practices to focus on cost-effective improvement of pasture and hay crop/silage crop productivity, that is farm-specific. - [Contact](https://rdscoleman.com.au/contact/) - For South Australia rural technical support contact Ross Coleman on 0427 836 733 or Email: support@rdscoleman.com.au - [Seed & Seed Mixes](https://rdscoleman.com.au/our-products/seed-seed-mixes/) - RDS Coleman Consulting is an authorised distributor for Heritage Seeds products and services. Heritage Seeds is one of Australia’s largest privately owned pasture seed companies. Heritage Seeds specialize in quality tropical and temperate pastures, fodder crops, forage cereals, turf and amenity grasses. - [Foliar Fertilisers](https://rdscoleman.com.au/our-products/foliar-fertilisers/) - Foliar fertilisers-applied phosphorus is rapidly translocated to the roots and this stimulates essential root rhizosphere activity, improving biological activity in the root zone and nutrient availability from the soil. - [Increase Profitability](https://rdscoleman.com.au/increase-profitability/) - Knowing what the soil & crop or pasture needs, you can increase paddock productivity and profitability on three fronts. The soil test tells us what needs to be done to improve soil fertility and paddock performance. By getting the product selection and rates right, productivity should increase and this provides a higher return on the inputs investment. Further, the quality of feed/hay. - [Holistic Nutrition Approach](https://rdscoleman.com.au/holistic-nutrition-approach/) - ‘Guess work’ creates the potential for significant risk of financial losses caused by fertiliser wastage and/or reduced productivity and quality. The Holistic nutrition approach simply takes the potentially costly ‘guess work’ out of decisions! - [About Us](https://rdscoleman.com.au/about-us/) - We are a small and highly resourced consulting and product supply practice based in the Adelaide Hills. We have over 18 years of extensive hands-on experience in soil, plant and animal nutrition across most of arable South Australia, and most notably; the Adelaide Hills, Fleurieu Peninsula, and South East. - [News](https://rdscoleman.com.au/news/) - RDS Coleman Blog, showing new products and advise for optimum paddock productivity. - [What is pH?](https://rdscoleman.com.au/soil-improvement/what-is-ph/) - pH is a measure of the level of hydrogen in the soil. The more hydrogen in the soil, the more acidic the soil is. Soil pH has an enormous impact on the availability of soil nutrients to the plant and also greatly affects the organisms living in the soil. - [Understand Acidification](https://rdscoleman.com.au/soil-improvement/understand-acidification/) - What is soil acidification? Soil acidification is the build up of hydrogen cations, reducing the soil pH. Soil acidification has been described as a sleeping giant. In many cases, symptoms of reduced growth in acid soils are just explained away as a poor season or lack of fertiliser. - [The importance of calcium](https://rdscoleman.com.au/soil-improvement/the-importance-of-calcium/) - Calcium is an important element in maintaining soil pH. It forms good soil structure, allowing soils to breath It is critical in promoting healthy soil microbial life. - [How to Reduce Soil Acidification](https://rdscoleman.com.au/soil-improvement/how-to-reduce-soil-acidification/) - Applying lime is the only reliable and cost-effective way to reduce soil acidity (increase soil pH). - [Soil Improvement](https://rdscoleman.com.au/soil-improvement/) - From your soil test we measure of the PH level of hydrogen in the soil. The more hydrogen in the soil, the more acidic the soil is also understand Acidification and how to reduce soil acidification. The importance of calcium is an important element in maintaining soil pH. - [Soil Testing Service](https://rdscoleman.com.au/our-services/soil-testing-service/) - Much of the advice and decision-making is based on the results in a current reliable soil test report. It’s all just ‘guess work’ without a soil test. A small investment in a soil test can often both save &/or ‘make’ money; either way, it can increase profitability! - [Contractors Available](https://rdscoleman.com.au/our-services/contractors-available/) - We recommend Trev Whits Contracting. Contact Trevor Whittlesea on Mobile 0418 858 047 or Email whittleseas@bigpond.com. - [Consultancy and Advice](https://rdscoleman.com.au/our-services/consultancy-and-advice/) - For the most part, and unless otherwise agreed (see below), all our advice is provided to our clients as a complimentary service. This is especially the case where the client is using any one or more of our products. - [Our Services](https://rdscoleman.com.au/our-services/) - RDS Coleman services are Soil Testing Service and we provide Consultancy and Advice, also we have contractors available. - [Lime: How to assess value for money?](https://rdscoleman.com.au/our-products/lime-how-to-assess-value-for-money/) - Generally, what you pay for is what you get. i.e. the cheaper it is, generally the lower the quality. Neutralising value tells you the lime's capacity to neutralise soil acidity. The finer the particles of lime, the faster they react with soil. - [Lime: Application Rates](https://rdscoleman.com.au/our-products/lime-application-rates/) - Typical application rates are between 1.5 t/ha - 2.5 t/ha however they will vary greatly depending on how acidic your soil is and what texture your soil is. - [Lime & Gypsum Products](https://rdscoleman.com.au/our-products/lime-gypsum-products/) - Our high quality liming products are: PENLIME’ Calcium Carbonate AgLime cost-effective material for correcting soil acidity. Southern Quarries Dolomitic or Hi-Mag Lime has calcium and magnesium carbonate. Gypsum to improve structure of sodic clay soils. - [Our Products](https://rdscoleman.com.au/our-products/) - Our products include Lime & Gypsum Products, Lime: Application Rates, Lime: How to assess value for money? Seed & Seed Mixes, Foliar Fertilisers, Hay / Silage Sampling.