Base cation sat rat

I am exposed to the Albrecht method if that is the same question. I have asked locally and maybe a bit farther out and the information I got was that the Albrecht method is more applicable to prairie soils and soils with colder winters. I have no way of really knowing. I saw a local guy use the Albrecht method to fertilize a chunk of land and the forages were weak or some died off for several years. We have soils with a lot of aluminum ions. We need to get pH up to favor legumes. To really grow alfalfa here and get the money's worth of the seeds and efforts the subsoil needs to be conditioned prior with gypsum. Both lime and gypsum help to bid the aluminum.

I find the NPK ratings of universities in soil sample results to be misleading. Nobody knows who came up with the divisions of low, adequate, high and very high. But all should know but it is rarely discussed that the rating refer to one year of crop needs. I find that a bit much as I do not want to run around and do fertilizer or litter once a year on every acre. We do use dolomitic limestone here with both mag and Ca in it as needed. To get adequate legume coverage I need to have pH higher than the university recommendations. I use litter as a means to bank P and K with whatever else in the soil for multi year use. It is applied about every 3 to 5 years if needed. 

Moving away from commercial fertilizer with the salts has also been a good deal for the overall good of the forages as an opinion.