Using a Brix Refractometer for Pasture and Forage Management - webinar hosted by Grassroots Carbon
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Imagine an easy-to-use field tool that will help you predict:
· The nutrient density of your forage
· Shelf-life of standing forage and the hay you cut
· Plant calcium status and boron deficiency
· Weed problems
· A plant’s susceptibility to pest pressure
· The likelihood of frost damage
This tool is called a portable Brix Refractometer. It measures light refracting through dissolved sugars in plant sap and indicates the nutrient density of the plant. With a few instant readings each day you’ll start gaining insight that can take your forage and grazing management to the next level.
In this webinar Kara Kroeger, Regenerative Practice Consultant at Grassroots Carbons, explains how to improve your skills as a chlorophyll manager by understanding the ins and outs of using a Brix Refractometer to improve your pasture management.
Awesome chat, thank you so much from Oz. 😊
Excellent tutorial! Thank You for sharing
This video is awesome!
Are you also sharing the PowerPoint with people who were not on the webinar?
Thanks so much Kara . I live in lreland and we can grow lots of grass but unfortunately because we get a lot of cloudy wet weather our brix levels are normally low. Is there anything we can do to help this ?
minerals in the form of rock dusts, given that you have the full spectrum, particularly calcium and phosphorus is what you may need to emphasize if you want to get to nutrient-dense grass faster. wet weather need not dilute nutrients. pushing microbial performance alleviates soil mineral imbalances like too much magnesium but soil amendments helps one get to the goal. additions need not be, even should not be, in huge amounts but in increments - microbial performance is disrupted by dumping so much calcium carbonate....blessings
I would recommend to you "Dr. Elaine's Soil Food Web School" youtube channel. Basically compost and compost tea will help you increase the brix level rapidly. Cheers, mate.
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A fuzzy line is because it is not clarified. That hydrometer is for clear liquid. It has nothing to do with minerals. Hydrometers are for soluble solids, any particles are insoluble and cause different refraction.
Taught in Wine school.
Is it true that High Brix food cannot be grown under the organic agricultural rules ?
Quel est le brix de ton soya?
😇 claims about the soil as a carbon sink needs some serious science to verify. Will Brinton has been in youtube recently claiming so much exaggeration of the capacity of soil to sequester carbon. not to debunk biological agriculture but we are in the age of hype...blessings to all