Soil Hydration With Keyline Cuts.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ม.ค. 2024
- We have set up some new key line cuts in a dry section of the driveway lane. After the first down pour it was a great opportunity to show how the keyline's work holding up surface water for deep hydration.
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It’s a joy to see water slowing, spreading and sinking in action.
Haha, dogs are loving it!
Fully developed soil soaks rain naturally. That is the Regenerative Agriculture gold standard. 8" per hour has been recorded and the farmer could drive his ute over it an hour later after a downpour without rutting. Keyline is a fantastic remedial or maintenance tool but main goal is to get a permanent layer of last season's growth (armour) over a permanent and varietal mix network of roots so the bacteria and fungus can build the water-holding cavern complex (they use Glomalin, a clay buster). In effect making a paradise for earthworms whose presence everywhere indicates the job is complete. That land will grow anything seasonal or appropriate -- for no additional input dollars or work.
Enjoying the enthusiasm and the innovation; a great role model and I've added your channel's links to the list of references others thinking about Regen can access. I hope you know about and follow the work of other Regen main actors, in Sweden, USA, Africa, etc. For now an Aussie: Dr. Walter Jehne th-cam.com/video/_TsX7ffouxQ/w-d-xo.html
Hi Peter, sorry I missed your comment. I really appreciate the kind words and the reference materials. If there's anything at all that I can help with or try Nes experiments we would love to help out. Take care.
I’m sure you have plenty to do but I’m really fascinated with the principles in the key line system and am hoping for an update video showing the current results.
Thanks
Hi there, we have just received our first rain in months. I'll walk the paddocks and post something for you. Cheers
nice video, my question is about the cuts in terms of depth and width as well as the way the edges of the cut should be eg, square, round or splayed.
Good stuff 😊😊😊
Hi, I'm a drainage design specialist. Were I farm, we have very dry summer and very wet winter, but like you, it comes down hard and fast. What we do is use what we call sub soil plow. This does much like your pipe plow, but we do these cuts every meter. This just speeds up the hydration of the land with any rain we get. Doing it this way means we don't need the water to stay still for long. It just fills these voids down 600 mm down. This hydrates the land so fast and lasts weeks.
Hey Nicholas how many tines are on your sub soil plough?
@FatCowFarmTatong just the one on mine. It's easier to control and stay on contour.
Hey Man, thanks.@@nicholassmith787
The pipe layer has one distinct advantage over the keyline plough (as currently designed). It could use the pipe feed to introduce organic matter or compost derivatives directly to the bottom of the cut and speed up the progress of the deep soil critters as they regenerate the soil. Towing a tank to provide the mix would automate the process.
The more I learn about keylines I feel like keylines in fields very similar to broadforking for residential back yard or for small market farms. Is this correct?
Hey Jeremiah, key lines and swales enable the water catchment to slowly absorb into the ground rather than running off the surface. If you use a broad fork its sort of similar where you are catching the rainfall. However the broad fork area can saturate really quickly and hence your not capturing a 100%. Its a great start through. Maybe a kelyine or swale at the top of the vegetable garden and allow to absorb slowly. Cheers
I love what your doing with Keyline cuts, looks like a great idea. FYI Audio isnt great... might need to buy a microphone🙂
Yeah, I have to look at that. Thanks for the heads up. Much appreciated - cheers
Gday mate don't get this comment the wrong way but the minute you walk more then 2 meters from the camera i nearly have to do lip reading . I think it is the time now for lapel mic. and improve the voice by 100 %.
I love all your videos that is why i subscribed as they are educational to me but they would be perfect with some sound improvement
Next time I'm in the big smoke ill look at a mic. Thanks for the heads up. Cheers