C A Lime Ltd

01/05/2026

It's May already, 2026 is flying! Get your Recycling, Soil sampling, and Spreading booked early. We're looking forward to these shows this month, come and see us!

21/04/2026

5 WEEKS TO GO!!!!

We are looking forward to welcoming you all to Crick Lodge for the 2026 Rally!!!

19/04/2026

The season is approaching fast! A quick team photo before the two trailed spreaders attack 2026 grass spreading. Two self propelled spreaders have been on potato and redbeet fertiliser recently. Don’t forget to get your spreading booked in! 👌🚜💨

27/03/2026

22/01/2026

Tray testing is our biggest priority making sure all our spreaders are tested regular through the year! This is the first time for 2026, time to get uppa!

04/11/2025

🚜💨 Something a bit special from Knight!

For those who love a mechanically driven power unit, check out our Forward Control Fastrac, built on the 4000 series JCB Fastrac. It’s got all the comfort, speed, and stability you’d expect — plus Knight’s spray tech to make it even better!

💧 Tank capacity up to 4,000L
🌿 Boom widths up to 40m
🔧 The spray-pack can even be demounted, so the vehicle can be used for other jobs like bulk lime or fertiliser spreading.

Smart, versatile, and built for real-world farming — that’s the Knight way! 👨‍🌾💪

22/09/2025

19/09/2025

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20/08/2025

One of our spreaders in action 👌🤩

30/07/2025

Straw, Potash and the Dry British Summer: A Cautionary Tale

As yet another dry season wheezes to a finish, it’s time for a reality check: if you’re baling straw this harvest, you could be exporting more than just fibre. You might be shipping off a chunk of your soil fertility and not even know it.

The PDA points out that, in dry years like this one, the normal pattern of potassium leaching back into the soil just doesn’t happen. When cereal crops mature, the potash in the stems is supposed to wash out with rainfall as the plant senesces. But when it’s bone dry, that nutrient stays locked in. So if the straw leaves the field, so does the potash.

This isn’t theory - we saw the same thing in 2018 and 2022. The lesson? Don’t rely blindly on average offtake tables. They’re useful, yes, but they don't cover the extremes.

If you’re removing straw, you need to replace the nutrients. And here’s where a product like Fibrophos PK Fertiliser earns its stripes. Rich in phosphate and potash - two of the key nutrients lost when straw is baled - it’s a recycled, renewable fertiliser that can help restore balance without breaking the bank.

So by all means, sell the straw. But don’t forget to pay back the soil. Because a negative nutrient balance doesn’t show up on a yield map until it’s far too late.