John tells it and shows it as he can see it... Watch right to the end and the cows even get into it! Pictures tell a thousand words! Thanks again John for recording and sharing this interesting farming life.
We bought home some buckets of charcoal from a big tree that burnt out in the bushfire and put it in our home garden beds along with a drum of cow dung. At the moment I got the best crop of greens veggies that I ever saw.
Thank you so much for your effort so we can learn from your experiences, even though we need to be aware that we have different climates. I'm from Slovenia and we don't have as little rain as you, but our summers are getting drier and there are more strong storms than before. When I watch you, I would just come to your aid, so I'm happy with your casual approach to work. May God protect you and your family!
Thanks for your kind words and interest. The good thing about the internet is we can share knowledge and learn off each other. Stay safe and well. John
Found your channel a couple of days ago, a few long nights watching them all! Love the hay making , and the explaining with the machines and how they work, and you start at the very beginning 👍 Thanks keep up the good work , subscribed🍻
Yeah Jim the cows help make the fertilizer then the fertilizer makes the grass grow then the grass makes the cows grow and the whole thing goes round and round. John
They may have been eating after picking through that dodgy old baleage. Our Organic vet recommends offering charcoal free choice when feeding stored feed to help cows if they get a bit mold or such that upset their rumens. They will eat it and the upset causing agent will be absorbed.
Maybe from time to time they just eat a bit if they are a bit crook? If you have cattle here from away with the Lantana they will eat the lantana and die and if you can get charcoal into there diet it reduces losses. I have just bought some rollers to make a crushing mill and hope to start putting Biochar in the feed next year. John
Thankyou so much for sharing this. I am madly making biochar. So far I have 6 chaff bags full. We are surrounded by bushland so part of my reason for doing it is to reduce the fuel load around our property. Especially as there is a RFS planned burn for this Summer around our entire property. I was wondering how it would go around some of the native trees. So I have mixed a bit of decayed leave litter with the biochar and put it around one of the trees. Another lot I put in a horse feed bucket and poured seaweed solution. Your video has inspired me to keep going with my journey of feeding our very sandy depleted soil. :)
Eventually even if you dont inoculate the char it works and the longer its there the better it works. Sometimes when you put it on if you dont put enough good stuff in it it will draw out any goodness into the char but inoculating it will stop this, urine is a good source of nitrogen and char takes it in quickly. John
Awsome channell john and missus learning lots from you efforts.......just going into it here for veggie garden and potted plants mostly..great work....What breed of cattle Brahman,Linousen ,Lind x...Lived and worked up your way back in the late 70,s "Tully"..great place ..Cheers Mate stay well......Aussie in Canada
seen other farmer's feed cow's char .they said it soak's up methane.i think they want to save the world from cow fart's.greenhouse gas's .stay well . gary
may be by incorporating the "Johnson-Su bio-reactor fesults with the "Young Red Angus" method of application to the soils, your biochar can see more of a results of good pasture growth in them,,,,,
I try not to use sprays we use very little in fact I couldn't tell you the last time I sprayed. The hay isn't much of a problem if I get areas of weed I plow them in the dry months and plant whatever I am using and do everything I can to promote the growth of the plants I want. I would rather have the odd weed in my hay than feed my cattle poison. Thats not to say there is no place for sprays but its not my go to option. John
good to see the use of biochar on your farm, great attempt to green your pastures. May I suggest you look into Dr David Johnson and wife-s efforts in AU with the "Johnson- Su Bio=reactor" Seems that their mixtures do great at growing crops (including grassland) and uses many of the inputs you are using to make compost. Good Luck with your efforts
I found a free source of rice hulls/husks delivered by 18 wheel trucks. Experimented with biochar with it. Mostly successful after a disaster or two. Mixed with chicken manure. A bit too rich but successful. Don’t know what grain sources you have there but you might give it a go. Here the mills will give it away and occasionally deliver it for free. Just a thought.
Thanks a lot for that. We don't have any grain growing in our area. But we do have a huge supply of hardwood that needs cleaning up. I don't mean live trees I am talking about dead trees from cyclones and limbs that fall that sort of thing. John
@@farminglifeaustralia6716 yeah, we get hurricanes here that knock over large patches of trees. Wood is a bit more labor intensive to convert to biochar than the rice hulls for me. I also spread the whole unburned hulls over the garden about 6 inches deep and tilled it in. Some say it’s good and some say it’s not. I will find out in the spring. Thanks for the vids. Interesting stuff.
I love how inquisitive cows are in what you're doing, I love them in my Lantana Eradication and find them an incredibly helpful part of the process, So do you still have the Skid steer and still use it at all, hey and when is the Dozer video coming? even just the video showing it is there HAHAHAHAHA cause it must be overgrown? Cheers Matey another great production and the drone is so much more superior than the other ones
The dozer is a bit overgrown. The drone is good I am practicing with it a fair bit mainly the filming and the gimbal and different settings. I will be glad when my other batteries come. I recon I could be at it until I'm 100 and still not know everything it can do.John
@@farminglifeaustralia6716 So are you playing with Camera settings? and I hear you, I tend to just go Auto on everything and just run with that because life is just to busy for get good at everything these days
@@AttitudeAdjuster Yes Garry I am. I started with Auto and its good but I have looked at a lot of video's on YT about the drone and getting the most out of it. I bought a set of ND filters for it and am playing around with manual filming even in Auto the ND filters make a big difference. I hear you about the time thing and being busy. I have gone off TV lately I'm a bit sick of bad news and crap shows so I have been spending a lot of time on the computer trying to educate myself about my drone and filming and photography in general. John
How could you tell it was the Biochar? Or was it the the cow manure in the biochar? Would be interesting to see a test plot with just cow manure. And a plot with biochar charged with cow manure.
Yes thats a good point. Even if you got the same initial results I suspect the just cow manure would stop working after a short time where the biochar + cow manure would get better as time went along. I have some manure and hay with no bio char at the moment if I get time I might do a small test. John
what happens if charcoal absorbs nuclear radiation? anti-radiation or even keep radiation longer? which if a disaster occurs all farmers must dispose of their charcoal that has been planted for decades at a very high cost.
Around here we have a lot of lantana and if you bring cattle from away a few die because of the toxicity of the stuff and charcoal added to their diet will stop most of the poison from killing them. John
If you want the cows to eat the biochar you must mix it with something that will make them want to eat it. See what Doug Pow does, I think he uses molasses and maybe some other stuff too. th-cam.com/video/_JPoItRWYSQ/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/2aUPRzIh3Dk/w-d-xo.html
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John tells it and shows it as he can see it...
Watch right to the end and the cows even get into it!
Pictures tell a thousand words!
Thanks again John for recording and sharing this interesting farming life.
Thanks for watching and commenting Frank Strie. John
We bought home some buckets of charcoal from a big tree that burnt out in the bushfire and put it in our home garden beds along with a drum of cow dung.
At the moment I got the best crop of greens veggies that I ever saw.
Thats real good Bernie. John
Thank you so much for your effort so we can learn from your experiences, even though we need to be aware that we have different climates. I'm from Slovenia and we don't have as little rain as you, but our summers are getting drier and there are more strong storms than before. When I watch you, I would just come to your aid, so I'm happy with your casual approach to work. May God protect you and your family!
Thanks for your kind words and interest. The good thing about the internet is we can share knowledge and learn off each other. Stay safe and well. John
Found your channel a couple of days ago, a few long nights watching them all! Love the hay making , and the explaining with the machines and how they work, and you start at the very beginning 👍 Thanks keep up the good work , subscribed🍻
Thanks a lot Tristan Harris. I like hay making as well its satisfying making a bale out of grass some how then turning it into beef or money. John
Interesting experiment, will be great to see how it goes and if you improve the system even further. Thanks for sharing.
I have a few ideas I want to try just starting to get somewhere with it all. John
Thanks John I always enjoy your videos
Thanks Gavin H. John
I love the experiment John . I think it makes a huge difference in the footage 👍
I have to lock it up again as soon as we get some rain. John
Looks like you have made a natural machine! Awesome job. Jim in Chile
Yeah Jim the cows help make the fertilizer then the fertilizer makes the grass grow then the grass makes the cows grow and the whole thing goes round and round. John
Good work mate. Loving your videos about biochar. Hamish in the lockyer Valley Queensland.
Thanks Hamish I have planned some other experiments. I am trying to get away from the constant expense and use of inorganic fertiliser. John
They may have been eating after picking through that dodgy old baleage. Our Organic vet recommends offering charcoal free choice when feeding stored feed to help cows if they get a bit mold or such that upset their rumens. They will eat it and the upset causing agent will be absorbed.
Maybe from time to time they just eat a bit if they are a bit crook? If you have cattle here from away with the Lantana they will eat the lantana and die and if you can get charcoal into there diet it reduces losses. I have just bought some rollers to make a crushing mill and hope to start putting Biochar in the feed next year. John
Great experiment . Great info my friend.
Catch ya next time and stay safe
Thanks O A H I think this is going to work out really good as time goes on I think it will have lasting effects. John
bio-char mixed with kelp and molasses , then the cows will eat it. the dung beadles love it too.
Molasses is easy for us we have access to plenty, but we can't get kelp I can understand why they would like it salty stuff they seem to like. John
Thankyou so much for sharing this. I am madly making biochar. So far I have 6 chaff bags full. We are surrounded by bushland so part of my reason for doing it is to reduce the fuel load around our property. Especially as there is a RFS planned burn for this Summer around our entire property. I was wondering how it would go around some of the native trees. So I have mixed a bit of decayed leave litter with the biochar and put it around one of the trees. Another lot I put in a horse feed bucket and poured seaweed solution. Your video has inspired me to keep going with my journey of feeding our very sandy depleted soil. :)
Eventually even if you dont inoculate the char it works and the longer its there the better it works. Sometimes when you put it on if you dont put enough good stuff in it it will draw out any goodness into the char but inoculating it will stop this, urine is a good source of nitrogen and char takes it in quickly. John
G'day mate, looks like your experiment is a successful one. Keep up the great work stay safe and God bless you guys.
I'm real happy with it. Stay safe and well. John
Awsome channell john and missus learning lots from you efforts.......just going into it here for veggie garden and potted plants mostly..great work....What breed of cattle Brahman,Linousen ,Lind x...Lived and worked up your way back in the late 70,s "Tully"..great place ..Cheers Mate stay well......Aussie in Canada
The cattle we have are Droughtmaster which is a local composite breed. Thanks for having a look at my channel. Was at Tully last week. John
Such important info. I wonder if it also helps with worms and what not. Having to drench less.
I am not sure but every now and then the cattle will eat it. John
seen other farmer's feed cow's char .they said it soak's up methane.i think they want to save the world from cow fart's.greenhouse gas's .stay well . gary
Yeah Gary I have seen that. I think the main benefit to the cattle is the char soaks up any toxins in their system and gives them a good cleanse. John
may be by incorporating the "Johnson-Su bio-reactor fesults with the "Young Red Angus" method of application to the soils, your biochar can see more of a results of good pasture growth in them,,,,,
Thanks for the tip. John
Good Day John, Was wondering do you use a broadleaf herbicide like Grazon to kill the Broadleaf weeds in your hay paddock?
I try not to use sprays we use very little in fact I couldn't tell you the last time I sprayed. The hay isn't much of a problem if I get areas of weed I plow them in the dry months and plant whatever I am using and do everything I can to promote the growth of the plants I want. I would rather have the odd weed in my hay than feed my cattle poison. Thats not to say there is no place for sprays but its not my go to option. John
good to see the use of biochar on your farm, great attempt to green your pastures. May I suggest you look into Dr David Johnson and wife-s efforts in AU with the "Johnson- Su Bio=reactor" Seems that their mixtures do great at growing crops (including grassland) and uses many of the inputs you are using to make compost. Good Luck with your efforts
I will check it out. John
I found a free source of rice hulls/husks delivered by 18 wheel trucks. Experimented with biochar with it. Mostly successful after a disaster or two. Mixed with chicken manure. A bit too rich but successful. Don’t know what grain sources you have there but you might give it a go. Here the mills will give it away and occasionally deliver it for free. Just a thought.
Thanks a lot for that. We don't have any grain growing in our area. But we do have a huge supply of hardwood that needs cleaning up. I don't mean live trees I am talking about dead trees from cyclones and limbs that fall that sort of thing. John
@@farminglifeaustralia6716 yeah, we get hurricanes here that knock over large patches of trees. Wood is a bit more labor intensive to convert to biochar than the rice hulls for me. I also spread the whole unburned hulls over the garden about 6 inches deep and tilled it in. Some say it’s good and some say it’s not. I will find out in the spring. Thanks for the vids. Interesting stuff.
@@ddd3240 I agree timber is labour intensive I guess you have to use what you can get. We like to clean it up as well. John
lol I like that cow that jumped over your biochar as you were dumping it onto the ground near the end! Just wanted to be on camera I reckon ;)
Might change the song from the cow jumped over the moon to the cow jumped over the biochar. John
@@farminglifeaustralia6716 Hahaha
@@theadventuresofzoomandbettie Nursery rime for kids of sensitive new age greenies. John
@@farminglifeaustralia6716 haha I dunno, I reckon all kinds of kids would enjoy it! Learn more from that rhyme than the original version!
@@theadventuresofzoomandbettie Well I proved that a cow jumping over the biochar is feasible the moon well thats another story. John
Can you do a video showing how you spread with the tires please?
Yes no worries next time I do it. John
I love how inquisitive cows are in what you're doing, I love them in my Lantana Eradication and find them an incredibly helpful part of the process, So do you still have the Skid steer and still use it at all, hey and when is the Dozer video coming? even just the video showing it is there HAHAHAHAHA cause it must be overgrown? Cheers Matey another great production and the drone is so much more superior than the other ones
The dozer is a bit overgrown. The drone is good I am practicing with it a fair bit mainly the filming and the gimbal and different settings. I will be glad when my other batteries come. I recon I could be at it until I'm 100 and still not know everything it can do.John
@@farminglifeaustralia6716 So are you playing with Camera settings? and I hear you, I tend to just go Auto on everything and just run with that because life is just to busy for get good at everything these days
@@AttitudeAdjuster Yes Garry I am. I started with Auto and its good but I have looked at a lot of video's on YT about the drone and getting the most out of it. I bought a set of ND filters for it and am playing around with manual filming even in Auto the ND filters make a big difference. I hear you about the time thing and being busy. I have gone off TV lately I'm a bit sick of bad news and crap shows so I have been spending a lot of time on the computer trying to educate myself about my drone and filming and photography in general. John
@@farminglifeaustralia6716 hey you should do a Dozer will it start video, they are all the rage now across YT
@@AttitudeAdjuster It would be just my luck that it wouldn't. John
How could you tell it was the Biochar? Or was it the the cow manure in the biochar? Would be interesting to see a test plot with just cow manure. And a plot with biochar charged with cow manure.
Yes thats a good point. Even if you got the same initial results I suspect the just cow manure would stop working after a short time where the biochar + cow manure would get better as time went along. I have some manure and hay with no bio char at the moment if I get time I might do a small test. John
Awesome, im going to spread my char down in about half an hour.👍🤠
Good one. John
I had just seen where they did a study with seaweed less than 2% of their diet took out 98% of the gases they produced
Thats very interesting. John
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Thanks for watching. John
I don’t have cows. Could I do the same thing for sheep?
I dont think it has much to do with the type of stock you have its more about making your soil better. John
what happens if charcoal absorbs nuclear radiation? anti-radiation or even keep radiation longer?
which if a disaster occurs all farmers must dispose of their charcoal that has been planted for decades at a very high cost.
I don't know I suspect if there are those levels of radiation we will have a lot of things to worry about. John
Nice video mate, cows might have been a little out of balance in their gut, the charcoal will help to ease that, like an antacid.
Around here we have a lot of lantana and if you bring cattle from away a few die because of the toxicity of the stuff and charcoal added to their diet will stop most of the poison from killing them. John
10:37 Noif!
Thanks Justin. John
another one sea salt plus apple cider vinegar with bio-char,
That sounds like a good mix. John
If you want the cows to eat the biochar you must mix it with something that will make them want to eat it. See what Doug Pow does, I think he uses molasses and maybe some other stuff too.
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That makes sense we have molasses on hand the other thing is grinding it up small would help I think and mixing it with their feed would help. John