What is the history of Lime?
The agricultural benefits of applying Lime to soil have been known since the time of the Roman Empire, but Lime was first used specifically to change soil acidity levels in the mid-1800’s by Virginia farmer Edmund Ruffin. While this ability to neutralize soil acids is recognized to improve the availability of many nutrients, work in the decades around the Second World War by Dr. William A. Albrecht showed that calcium is also a key nutritional element.
