RE: Ph meter or soil test?
ag lime is pretty cheap too. $6/ton for 62% ECC around here. that's the price for it dumped into the back of a pickup, dumptruck or whatever. if you go there just before they close on a saturday, they'll probably give you a ton for free because it's not worth their hastle to recompute their books.
ask me how i spread it from the back of a pickup.