Walking Away From This Myth Will Save Farmers Big Money!
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- This video details how to cut back from Nitrogen and save money!
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17 years ago I was involved with a company doing mineral fertilisers part of the program was soil biology. Was talking to a farmer about fhe product, mentioning mychoryza fungi, when he gets up goes to his bookshelf, brings back a farmers handbook from the Agricultural Dept here in Australia dated 1902 mentioning the benefits of Mychoryza fungi. His question was if they knew it then what happened in between? Bayer Monsanto etc.
Good video will be looking at more.
Thanks for the feedback!
Bayer and Monsanto aren't fertilizer companies.
@@harrisonfunke8466 He didnt say they were fertilizer companies, he was answering the question
They are/were chemical companies.
I think his point is chemicals are the answer
I’m not sure that Bauer doesn’t own Monsanto, and they are agricultural pharmaceutical chemical companies that have bled farmers dry for years. Yeah it’s easy to chemical farm- because you killed off all your soil’s biological activities. Reinstating fungal/microbial activity is not artificial chemical farming.
Yup, and the bread basket is showing the sings of the ferilizer industry.
I've been putting wine cap mushrooms into my planting areas. It grows on wood chips or straw. Really helps the plants uptake nutrients.
I was checking the comments to see whether anyone used mushrooms to make this process easier. Thank you!
@@sleeplessinthecarolinas8118 I suspect you can use any fungus. Most good grow shops carry a mycro boost supplement you can mix in water and use. I use wine cap as I know the process and I also sell the wine caps spawn.
We own a company called Heal the land llc. We make fungal dominated compost. I am glad to see your good work to reach out to farmers and help them.
Do you have a website?
Awesome! This is what Dr. Elaine Ingham (Soil Food Web on TH-cam) has been teaching for years. She said there's no soil on earth that is depleted of nutrients. Only soil that is lacking the proper ratio of fungi to bacteria which is necessary to break down the minerals within the soil into a bioavailable form that plants can easily uptake. Pretty amazing stuff. She said even in the desert with no water, crops can grow if the soil biology is there. She replenishes the fungi and bacteria with compost tea.
yeah she is probably someone that I should have mentioned in the video
One of the biggest issues with agricultural soils at present is that manganese is not available to plants, due to chenical applications. Advancing eco agriculture has some great content on the topic of unlocking manganese in soil to make it available. Plants need manganese to thrive.
Great to see your 'real' scale experimentation trials and proof of what works. Also wonderful that the work of amazing Australian, Dr Christine Jones is receiving recognition for her work.
I’ve learning so much form her and the others I mentioned. Are you from Australia as well?
@@youngredangus6041 I sure am. I am in Central Tablelands NSW. I have a small herd of Murray Grey cows and a Red Angus Bull.
You are doing a great thing by brining this forward, more farmers need to use these techniques to save money, and promote more organic farming.
Yeah man. Even organic farmers need to here this. We have to stop tilling organic or traditional
Keep going I love this. Glad to see our farmers watching what goes on the foods we eat. Ty
Thanks for the encouragement!
This is super exciting. Thanks for sharing your results.
Thanks for the encouragement!
Loved this one, you explain things so well!!! I find each video truly interesting and you can see all of the hard work and true passion you have for these crops
Thank you so much for the encouragement!
@@youngredangus6041 keep doing what you're doing ignore the doubting Thomas's we don't have time to argue with stupidity
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The one I don’t get is the guy who raised the 200 bushel corn in 50lbs of N. Of all people he should understand how everything works.
Excellent video and that is why the forest grows so well.
Excellent video Jay! Way to go! Keep on keepin' on!
Thanks for the encouragement!
Nice! Very valuable information, thank you soo much!
This was/is very educational, not only to other farmers, but to others who want to grow 1-2 acre gardens, grow off the grid per say❤️ It really sickens me to know the evilness in USDA/GMO government thought they had control over many people!!! Now, that the majority of us (AWAKE) knew/know the food we were eating & the water we were drinking was poison can pass this Mother Nature information to a healthy bright future❤️🌍 thank you for sharing & continue to educate, this is a blessing to pass onto our children & grandchildren. Because God knows our children AREN'T being taught this in the schools, but we can teach them from home schooling them❤️ A Healthy Future❤️👪 God Bless🙏
Suzanna thank you so much for the encouragement! That really blessed my day!
@@youngredangus6041 ❤️
If only you and most people would spend some time and effort trying to find a "breakthrough" in stopping child abuses and harms that are occurring generationally and are pretty much delusionally denied by severely harmed people who act like brainwashed cult members actually doing more harm than good and perpetuate stupidity and corruption.
As an amateur soil biologist who has studied the biological health and recreating the diversity with in it, you are definitely on the right track to have productive fields that will be resilient for decades to come. There's an interesting conversation to be had about the profitability of carbon sequestration and also moisture retention.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the encouragement!
Would this work on any paddock for example, grass for cattle?
Funny ... I do this in my garden for the water retention properties ... the West Coast droughts every summer ... and of course all the nitrogen locked up in amino acids ... but mainly I compost to save money at the dump ...
@@jroche1832
Sorry I didn’t see this response
I’ll share a video that I think is good
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@@jroche1832 Rotational management of the livestock is the best tool to achieve the best soil health. By timing the paddock moves the land can heal and regenerate like crazy all on it's own. Check out Greg Judy and Joel Salatin.
Thank for sharing your video's.
Fantastic Fungi goes deep into this topic. They have a great animation and explanation of what fungi can do below the surface for itself and the benefit to other plants.
Outstanding work! Great explanations! Keep it up
Very educative about keeping our soil alive
Thank you for sharing!!!!!
Soil science is a beautiful thing keep up the good work keep Brewing that Good Earth
Fascinating! I definitely learned a few things watching this video.
Awesome! How are the calves looking?
@@youngredangus6041 Very good, luckily we have had a lot of grass this year. The Sinclair Exquisite 0X2 calves are exceptional.
The soil is not a chemistry set it's a living organism. Unfortunately most of practices that have become common place do more damage than good.
Perfectly stated ☺️
Love this video promoting regenerative agriculture!
PLEASE look up Gabe Brown from Bismarck, North Dakota. Brown's Ranch is 100% regenerative agriculture, zero chemical inputs for their crops. Mr. Brown's story of how he was financially forced into going regenerative and is so thankful that hardship put him on the right path.
It's amazing what can be accomplished using regenerative methods. Best wishes on your journey to cut out the big ag parasites eating your profits.
Sorry I have to be that guy but there are so many more factors. First kudos for going too no-till. Been there for a long long time. Absolutely amazing the difference in the soil between no-till and conventional till. Here’s the thing, no idea on how much manure was used. Was there a legume crop previous? Was there a legume cover crop previous? What’s the soil OM% Also a visual of corn in a field does nothing to say for how it will produce. We were in pretty good drought this year. May be some of the worst looking corn we’ve had but ended up being the highest yielding ever? I get it, your marketing. And your doing a good job. The fact is corn requires 1.1 lb of N per bushel. We can get 10-30 lbs of free N from the soil per OM% with 6% OM% we grow 200 by corn routinely with only 50 lbs of N.
I’ll have to look at the records but it was
2017 or 2018 for the 3 fields referenced in this video for getting manure.
I’ll measure OM in 2023. Last time we did it was only 1.8-2.2 on these fields I think it was 2020z.
We’ve never raised a Legume cash crop
We put 1-2lbs of Legumes in every most cover crop mixes
The history has been sense
Circle A
2016 full tillage history planted to corn
After 2016 corn crop cut no-till began
2017 cover Crops
2018 corn over
2019 cover crops
2020 corn
2021 cover crops
2022 corn
Every year we have applied 180-220lbs of N according to what the soil samples called for.
This year we only applied 100lbs because of the result we had last year.
I recommend you calling me or watching my presentation at Burlington.
I hope im wrong but when you say “I’m marketing” it comes across like you believe I’m being disingenuous for effect, I’m not. Im marketing for Lance because I believe in his company. I am trying to get people to stop over applying fertilizers and to start using these composting methods. I’m doing that to save farmers money and to get less N in our water ways.
I encourage you to watch this video
Johnson Su Compost: Improving Soil Health While Reducing Input Cost/ With Jay Young
I get into more detail
Or you can call me 620-376-8593
If you want to continue discussion on TH-cam that’s fine.
@@youngredangus6041 very good response. I appreciate that. So what you need to do is get replicated third party trials with verified numbers. Right now everything is anecdotal. Also it’s about scale and economic feasibility. More importantly it’s about ROI. If what your doing is on the up and up then it will be easily replicated. Furthermore, you need to mention how your testing soil nitrate. Because that test is so sensitive too so many outside factors. Ie how long did the sample take to get to the lab, the moisture level of the sample taken and the moisture of said sample when received by lab. Time of the year. Amniotic temperatures. Also very skeptically 3300 lbs of soil N. We raise legumes and legume cover crops never seen anything like that. You are correct on microbes and the fungi in the soil.
Listen if your on too something you need to do more as far third part trials. I’m sorry I travel all over the country meeting different vendors, agronomist, agribusiness leaders and farmers. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve run too situations like this. Most of the time 2 factors emerge. 1. Their full of shit 2. The situation there in induces the response they see and can not be replicated to the same degree. Now there is a third and very rare case where the idea and product works too perfection. Keep on working but in my oppinion unless you have more third party day (university, agribusiness (ie becks)) your videos are simply marketing on an anecdotal base. It cause much harm to farmers because people who do not know anything different attack farmers and causes more undeserved grief.
@@Jns27j
I’m sorry it’s really hard to tell if you are being serious and genuine or if you are just trying to troll me.
Have you studied much on Johnson Su Compost or Elaine Ingham? If you have then you are aware of all of their research that’s already been done and I don’t know why you are asking me to do 3 party verified research. It’s already out there I’m just sharing what we are doing. So if you are aware of their research then you are just trolling me.
If you are not aware of what they have done use the “google” and do your own research and then call me so we can have an actual conversation rather than one that I can hear voice inflection to or attitude. I really can’t tell if you seriously care or if you are just a troll.
rodaleinstitute.org/blog/soil-carbon-sequestration-is-a-natural-consequence-of-doing-things-right/.
Something to help you get started
@@youngredangus6041
Firstly I appreciate what you are trying to do here, and I think it’s quite interesting, but based on those dates you had no cash crop every other year to gain these benefits. Is that correct?
If so I’m sad to say this may not have real application in a commercial setting where the landlord would be without pay every other year. Many farmers do not own the land on which they grow crops. I can think of a ton of landlords that would absolutely lose their heads over not getting paid yearly.
COMPLETELY AWESOME .... I learned about the Johnson-Su compost method2 years ago.... Im excited to see you using it and killing it. I am a beginner farmer, learning lots on youtube here. Did a happy dance yesterday when I stumbled across your channel....
Dude thank you so much for your encouragement!
Where are you located Jonny Ian?
wow, regenerative agriculture is really catching on... really good video!!!
Thanks for the encouragement!
Jay, your videography is going next level. Keep up the good work!
Thanks man!
I worked with a videographer for The Suicide awareness video
The Nitrogen Myth and for the upcoming video the Phosphorus problem
She has taught me a lot of good techniques that I’m hoping to incorporate in the future
Great info all apply this from now
thats pretty cool scaling up what us backyard organic gardeners do
Over the decades i've seen a couple of methods or products that make a dramatic difference.
I'll be checking out this amazing compost!
th-cam.com/video/ToT1sFL1kP4/w-d-xo.html
Instantly liked and subscribed. I've known for some time that soil Microbes were key. in recent years the practice
of " Seeding " microbes has been shown to work. if your soil is poor - go to where plants are thriving and take some
soil as a " starter Culture ' and soon the ground will come alive. Thank You for this data.
My country New Zealand is being RUINED by Monsanto( and other companies ) covering the land with Nitrogen
so now our farm run-off is making our rivers full of Algae and our Ocean's top predator the Orca are the most
toxic on the planet ! ! ! Thanks again for this planet saving data.
Thanks for the encouragement Rosemary! And thanks for Subscribing!
proposed cow fart law is not hitting the right target. Diary farmers particularly need to life their game
I've been hearing about how we've been destroying the friendly fungus and bacteria in our soils with all the additives we've been dumping into them. I've also been hearing how important it is to have this fungus and bacteria community because they make minerals bio available to the plants. But this is the first time I've heard anyone explain how to restore them to the soils. Thank you.
Thanks for the encouragement!
You can also do the same with vermicast and get great results. In fact Johnson su compost uses worms in it too. So it is virtually the same
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Verma casting is ready quicker than JS
You can also buy ready-made mychoryza such as Orca for small scale use such as in hycroponics. I add some sugar to the reservoir to encourage the mycos to grow.
GREAT VIDEO. I have been raising organic sweet corn for over 10 years now by just growing soil microbes . THANK YOU.
That awesome do you sell at a farmers market?
@@youngredangus6041 I have my own farm stand on my 22 acre farm in my 5000 sq foot barn. I am a organic veg grower.
That’s awesome
Where are you located?
I just subscribe to your channel looking forward to watching some of your videos
@@youngredangus6041 New Jersey, zone 6 b . Sir.
U are definately on the right track. Making your soil alive is the way to go. Nature uses animal manures to enrich the soil. I'm wondering if grazing the left over corn would help in that way.
I dont grow corn, but do have an organic farm and breed goats for meat.
At all times I am working on increasing the fertility of the soil by not over grazing & spelling paddocks. The goal is to increase the soil fertility each yr, using no artifical fertilizers.
Water retention is also a by product of applying the above methods ..
Yep it does, ya gotta see what chicken does though, at least for soy i know it even helps keep pests at bay.
Compost and reactors specialist fom Pakistan appreciate your comp extrat apparatus and field practices experience.
I congratulate your your success. Rodney
Thanks!
That's so awesome buddy.
Thanks!
Great video, though the Johnson bio reactor is a very slow way to make compost.
A compost turner would take less than 6 months.
The cannabis growers have been practicing these methods for years now.
Also using charged biochar is another massive boost for your soil too.
Gonna go check the phos video now.
Fantastic !
Can you explain the difference between compostbrewer and compostextracter?
I grew up on a farm in Minnesota decades ago and always wondered about the huge amounts of fertilizer applied. This makes so much sense. Now living in the Philippines where most agriculture is still in a very primitive stage.
Make bioreactors with the Farmer! Start a movement there!
Where are you in the Philippines? Most farmers here are doing conventional methods (based on what I've seen personally and looking at data from studies) but in a smaller scale ( for fruit production though farms can be 100+ hectares each). Americans brought the green revolution here too so use of synthetic fertilizer is very common.
Thank you!
Absolutely
Misconceptions about compost tea abound. It's best after 48 hours of air bubbling and it's not for foliar application. It should be watered in heavily too as the bugs need to get to the roots somehow. You could easily double your effects by a just water application after the compost tea has been applied, the same rig could apply both. The bugs set up next to a root hair and in trade for water when times get drier, the root hairs feast on the waste the bugs produce (bug poo) which is what the plant really needs and is after in the first place. More bugs equals faster plant growth and higher yields. Since bug numbers in the compost tea media is a square root function of time mathematically, by cutting it off at 24 hrs you have just shortchanged yourself by a vastly much larger number of bugs. You don't need to sell me on better growth with compost tea, I've never seen such a difference myself - it's beyond incredible. Be there or be square as they used to say.
Talk about a misconception... Compost tea is absolutely for foliar application. That is a very good fit for it as it's so active. Are you farming or gardening?
Thanks
There are studies in Austria showing that fungi grown on wood chips while in pig pens is the best fungi you could grow. We spray compost tea, humic acid, calcium, emulsified fish and soft rock phosphate. Hoping to get into compost extraction.
You have a great TH-cam channel
Email me id love to connect with you
youngredangus@gmail.com
Amsterdam is gonna need this information going forward.
Is that where you are from?
@@youngredangus6041 No, thankfully.
interesting. Our farmers are brilliant!
Thank you!
Yah👍
Great job ! Most tea brewers brew for much longer times have you experminted with longer brew times . maybe you are going for more bacteria dominated vs fungi . what elese do you add besides compost ? Do you add feed for the critters ?
I just came from one of your other videos where I had a question you need to have to be here. This is definitely a lot more encompassing and answered a few questions. Do you know of anybody that has experience with conventional tillage and no cover crops? I think the only way to start looking into this is to convince Dad to try it on her conventional acres first.
What state are you in? I might now a resource near you or other farmer
@@youngredangus6041 Springfield, Minnesota
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I’ll see if I can get someone from Minnesota to reach out to you
Shoot me an email with your phone
youngredangus@gmail.com
Kiitos.
Amazing you can take a technigue that small gardeners like me use on an industrial monocrop! I wonder if this technique can be used on grass pasture for cattle?
It certainly can!
@@youngredangus6041 I have used the rhizopagy cycle to grow bananas, which demand a lot of nitrogen and potassium even before I knew what it is. You can see a similar thing with invasive elephant grass, which can grow on coral rock which has no nitrogen once the right bacteria grow with the plants. Once the right amount of water is present things really grow.
@@chargermopar
Awesome where are you located?
@@youngredangus6041 Miami Florida area, and Hendry county Florida.
I really hope that this works on a large scale.
wow, great videos Jay, I'm hooked!
Nicole thank you so much for your kind words. I was talking to someone and he mentioned you and your book for the “For the Love of Soil”
Where can I purchase that where you will get the most revenue?
Boogie Brew at large scale, magnificent!
Compost works. In whatever form you need to apply it. Compost makes soil work.
Glad science is finally catching up to what we already know. Web of life. Live soil is better than dead soil.
Thanks for the comment GS
Do you farm?
I learned this 45 years ago from a guy at that time who was 70 years old and he learnt it when he was at college, its nothing new. It just been buried by commercial intererests .
My goal is to bring it back to life !
Tea's are amazing.
Would you ever consider using mined minerals? A lot of up take issues are caused by mineral deficiencies as well.
A few years ago a landscaper gave me some huge piles of dirt from a rock quarry (grey and grainy). I used a lot of it to make some emergency raised beds. The results were amazing. Year after year these beds just keep giving me amazing vegetables. I'm a believer.
@@buffalopatriot I’m a organic fertilizer distributor in the northwest. We custom blend based off soil samples. A lot of people have nutrients locked up and can’t use them. My stuff unlocks it. It’s really awesome to help farmer grow a good crop and make their soil better at the same time
Curious as to your yields. Rule of thumb since the 1940s has been about each 1# of NO3 will improve per acre yield by a bushel. In 1949, Dad went from 15 bushels/acre to 100 bushels/acre just by applying 100# NO3 per acre. This was in the Red River valley, southeast of Shreveport. Soil quality is poor in the south, organic matter is usually no better than about 1%. It's really too hot down here to get it any higher than that.
Should be cutting the fields in a couple of weeks.
We have N in our fields already. We have to add the biology to access the N that is already there
Our OM is really low too. Our best fields when we started were 2.2
@@youngredangus6041 - unless I am just completely mis-remembering, NO3 is the only form of nitrogen plants can take in. All of the slow release stuff is just some other form of nitrogen that requires microbial life of some sort to convert it to NO3. If the microbial life is absent or in very short supply, very little of the non-NO3 will ever get converted to NO3.
With all that savings, you could buy a self driving tractor!
Mr. Young, I wonder if you have done any BRIX studies on your no till / cover crop results? and if so, what kind of results are you seeing?
what happens if the Johnson Su compost sits for more than 12 months. Does it improve at 18 months or does it weaken?
Very interesting stuff! In the Netherlands where I live, we currently have a nitrogen crisis. This means that - on a national level - construction projects are being put on hold and farmers are forcefully being bought out of their farms, because what little nature we have is dying due to nitrogen overdose. In summer, most water here turns green from algae bloom, because there's way too much nitrogen in it, run-off from agriculture. All agriculture here is of the intensive type. We are second exporter in the world of agricultural products, only behind the US and bigger than for example China or Russia(!). Knowledge like you present could do wonders over here.
But it seems that our agriculture has reached the point where it is either so intensive that it destroys the environment or has to be shut down; land is insanely expensive here. Hopeful to hear that it can be done differently. Although production is not the main aim in agriculture, I'm very curious to your production per hectare for the various nitrogen levels!
Or you are deceived by a govt. that is destroying what farmers have built up for decades. The govt. forcefully buying farms from farmers should tell you what they are doing is evil. Trying to destroy the farms and buy up their land to convert it into housing for mass immigration,..
"We are second exporter in the world of agricultural products" Right in your comment and you can't see how the farmer is doing fine without the govt. stealing their land.
@@jamescole3152 Thanks for your unfounded uneducated random opinion. You obviously don't know what you are talking about, for example these farmers can only exist due to enormous subsidies and special loan schemes, all facilitated by the government. It has nothing to do with mass immigration. We, as a society, are trying to find a way out of this problem, that is as satisfactory as possible for all parties involved. Having to use less nitrogen for farming could help enormously.
@@GreenIsTheWayForwardI don’t get your comment. For one, nothing was said about immigration.
hi our family farm has been doing no till since I believe the mid to late 60s the past 10 years we do a light vertical till to chop up the corn and bean debris left by the combine and only apply fertilizer and nitrogen mix when planting we do a burn down first but every year we have soil samples done for each field and adjust per PH and agronomist recomdation and choose the seeds accordingly we don't do full till but do use sludge and mannuar my Dad also uses drop hoses to put I can't remember what between the corn rows sorry I am usually working somewhere else but we have increased yealds each year and used less fuel and man hours we have given other things a shot but they haven't produced the only thing that matters that is continual ROI increase our fields are clean as well we used to sell micogen and the test things through out the year. now we are only farming around 2200 Acers and around 300 Head of Holsteins milking but I can't see how grazing would be feizable how are you going to control the diet of the cow to maximize milk production we have been breeding AI for along time to get the best genetics for health and production everything is calculated to eliminate veritables so I am wondering what you can do to improve on our system?
620-376-8593
I’d love to talk
wow this is a message that needs to get out there, especially to europe. the fertalizer shortages are bringing on global hunger, this stuff should be prioritized by global food agencies if it works.
Thanks man
Feel free to share on twitter and FB
Yep
Incredible findings, keep it up. Have you ever used seaweed extracts?
I have not used seaweed extracts
@@youngredangus6041 I recently started a company distributing seaweed biostimulants. Negligible N, P, extremely high K. Can I send you some?
I am always shocked at world use of fertilizers in excess amount. you can cut it by three-fourths of the amount and still get a comparable yield.
How does the application of fungicides effect the soil health?
I don't think it is good. Ive tried planting corn with out it twice and my stand is bad because the cut worms eat the seed. Ill keep working at it until we get to where we are able to plant seeds with no treatment. The good news is that the seed responds so well to the extract that even if fungicide is applied then you see the response.
What is the soil type for your research plots. My issue with all fertility research is they never mention the type of soil that they are working with. I can imagine this method would work well in a dryer climate, semi arid moisture regime, with controlled irrigation methods. But how would it fair in cooler climates with frequent rain events on marginal soil types. All agricultural crop research should include the soil type and landscape characteristics with their results.
Hiya, may I suggest you take a peek at advancing eco agriculture channel on TH-cam. So much amazing helpful information there. And real world examples.
You have relatively good soil in North America ....try to find compost in Australia ...lucky to have an inch of topsoil anywhere
Yeah that’s rough. But you can make this compost with grass clippings, ground up hey, leaves, wood chips.
@@youngredangus6041 our farmers have done a fantastic job of feeding us given the constraints but yeh I make compost in my own backyard like that
Quality , 10x better that some followers with 100k
Man thanks for the encouragement!
Are you going to continue the reduced amounts on your test strips for a couple of years and see if that makes a difference after two or three or five or 10 years?
I know absolutely jack about farming so please forgive me.
But is there a danger that eventually yoll run out of reserves of inorganic nitrogen?
Greetings from Northern Ireland. Not a big corn/maize growing country here. What did you make the compost out of? Price of N has risen 2.5-3 times it used to be here in 2022.
Johnson Su Bioreactor: Why Your Ingredients Matter.
th-cam.com/video/OmL2lBavtHk/w-d-xo.html
I think this video answers that question well
I encourage you to make it out of leaves. Or if you do a mixture of things like I did in this video keep your carbon source at 60%-70%
A guy I know in montana does 50% wood chips 50% horse manure
No till is a myth that was started by the government most farmers do some for a form of tilling for various reasons
Wow, how interesting. If all the Farmer in the Mississippi River Delta did this, we might be able to eliminate the River of Death in the Gulf of Mexico.
Yeah man baby steps. Get them thinking about their pocket books. Then hopefully get them taking care of the land in the way God intend it to be taken care of.
Im mostly all manure fertilizer so yes microbes are and fungi are huge but if you remove year after year you have to put back its sheer weight you can't produce something out of nothing you need to tell the whole story and what climate your farming in how warm your soils stay year round
Is it nutrient dense food?
Feed the soil and let the soil feed the plants.
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Would this have the same effect if the field get manure on a regular basis?
You can’t build the biology with just compost manure.
I suppose it's still necessary to fertilize in tropical areas that have plenty of rain leaching the nutrients out of the soil?
At what point can we start eating the soil, and stop growing plants. 🤔
I hear in Billings Montana the soil is really good for you!
Bloody nice work, watch your weed situation on the biologically enhanced areas to see if there is a change
Thanks I will! Have you had a chance to get compost on your operation?
@@youngredangus6041 just started back into it, long story, into vermiculture, inspired by Nutrisoil and Di and Ian Haggerty, but really interested as to how the j-s bio is progressing
The nutrients are there, they are just not bio available. If there is no life in the soil the system is broken. Plants, soil, and the living organisms works together. If you take away the soil life the plant will suffer. You can add all the n or p you want, if there is no life in the soil to process it and make it bio available it does nothing. Great video by the way, keep putting the word out
Thanks George! Where is your ranch located?
@@youngredangus6041 central Minnesota
that corn seed looked like it had fungicide on it, would be a little counter productive or is it a small enough amount that it doesnt matter?
no it matters. But I believe it only kills the fungi that come in contact with it. The good thing is the seed Has such a positive response from the extract that it immediately puts out exudates and feeds the microbes in the soil. I’m going to commit to start planting HERITAGE corns every year and hopefully within time we can find a way to make that profitable
Mark Kallstrom Of Kallstrom Sweet Corn in Ephrata , Washington U.S.A. How do you apply this to your corn ground ?
Mark, he's applying a compost extract to seed. Applying liquid to seed as it's sown is a good way to do it. For some crops, preinoculating may be more practical.
Now you're cookin' with gas! You delivered! Dr. Johnson is going to be proud of such an awesome video! Your results cannot be argued with. I guess that's $173,000 in your pocket.
Can biochar also be added to the compost mix?
I havnt studied biochar enough to give an accurate answer
Great video. Just letting you know that none of the links work. Also Dr Jones first name is Christine (not Christina)
I think I finally got them working. Sorry for the delay and thanks for correcting my mistake on Dr Christine Jones's name. I appreciate that.
How often do you have to apply the liquid made from your fungally dominated compost?
We just did once this year.
We are buying a system to do it more than once in the irrigated ground. Might do a foliar next year on corn wheat and Milo
Dave Johnson and his wife at CHICO are heroes. Of course, there is no patent to be had so that is why you have not heard from them.
Wohoo magic 😉
Great video! Especially due to not mentioning "climate change", not even once.
Hello, do you have the video links mentioned somewhere ? Thank you.
In the show notes.
Dr Christine Jones
th-cam.com/video/dr0y_EEKO9o/w-d-xo.html
Dr James White
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Dr David Johnson
th-cam.com/video/79qpP0m7SaY/w-d-xo.html
Dr Toby Kiers
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What about fungi that grow on the corn itself? We usually have to spray the plants an anti fungal solution, that in my mind would kill ground bacteria..
The fungi in the corn is a parasitic fungi. If you make compost tea and spry your plants the beneficial fungi will attack the parasitic fungi
Are you close enough to tribune Ks that you can come to our Work shop on December 10th
@@youngredangus6041 i am from South Africa, the micro biology trend is also catching on here in places, I can always enquire locally to. I just wanted to ask about that one thing because it seems like putting in fungi and then killing them is a bad idea.. I guess the answer would be too long for text message type reply..
More and more products like this are coming out, Corteva has a product Utrisha that pulls N out of the air by converting ammonia that is in the air.
This isn’t a product though. It’s compost you can make at a really low cost to the producers
My grandpa taught me grasses such as corn pull nitrogen from the air.
In one of your videos you were talking about that you applied around 200 pounds of nitrogen. Does that mean a little over 400 pounds of urea because urea has 46 percent nitrogen? Or are you talking about 200 pounds of urea?
How many hectares can you cover with one of those boxes? I know some big farmers who have shown interest in these techniques.
If my math is right 125 hectares infurrow 291 if you are treating wheat