Profitable Nitrogen Efficiency Management | Reducing Your Dependency on Nitrogen Inputs

The price of nitrogen has soared to new heights, making growers everywhere wonder how they can get the most out of their inputs without busting their budget.
David Miller, Director of Education at Advancing Eco Agriculture, dives into concepts related to efficient use of nitrogen and how these practices can lead to a reduction in inputs, increase the biological health of your soil, and protect your bottom line.
David explains how the nitrogen cycle works in nature and discusses the practical steps you can take towards profitable nitrogen management.
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Get the most out of your expensive Nitrogen! Discover an ideal, stable, slow-release, plant-available approach to profitable nitrogen (N) management in 2022 and beyond:
-Stabilize free N in the tank by compounding it with the humic substances found in AEA’s HumaCarb.
-Use AEA's Rejuvenate to promote quick microbial banking of N.
-Ensure complete nitrate conversion in plant tissues by including AEA's Rebound Molybdenum and a sulfur source to provide the 10:1 ratio required for protein synthesis.
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[@chris432t6]

Please do more on phosphorus.
Thank you for the consistently great content on this channel. I always look forward to the new videos/discussions. They are great learning tools.

[@AdvancingEcoAgriculture]

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[@jeremyschissler337]

i love you guys ...all of you at AEA...thank you for your service in stewardship....KICKIN ASS!!!!

[@HippieFertilizing]

This is one of the best channels Ever!!!! Thank you guys!

[@itsrachelfish]

Wow the comparison of humates vs sand under a microscope was very illuminating ! Amazing when chemistry is so tangible like that

[@pilsplease7561]

I look at huma carb and want to add it to what I put down in my vineyard particularly because I have bad sandy soil and it has been a constant battle to maintain proper nutrient levels and soil quality and fertility for good wine grapes. The issue is that all of your products give per acre dosages, and I have about 600 vines over a total area of about 6500 square feet and that makes it difficult to figure out product dilution for small areas.

[@mpccenturion]

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THANK YOU - for giving us all this teaching. I stumbled onto REGEN - after I planted crops - 40 yrs after I last planted. This spring is no till - hand planted, for me. i remain a student!

[@AdvancingEcoAgriculture]

Thank you for bringing this up - we appreciate the feedback! We're so glad that you have stumbled across our videos and are able to learn from our content. Thanks!
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[@rustyschackleford5800]

I've had great results with plant protein hydrolysate in small scale vegetable production. I'm curious how scalable it is.

[@nicolasbertin8552]

This is a weird video to watch after watching Christine Jones explaining it much better and with a better solution. Why isn't that video talking about cover crops ? Why isn't it saying that we now know that all plants are capable of getting their own nitrogen (including non legumes) through the rhizosphere ? Why isn't it talking about the farmers that Christine Jones collaborates with (and I'm sure many more, including some American ones) and that don't use any fertilizer at all, but get all their nutrients from diverse cover crops ? Coz the technique is very simple. Since all plants are good at something specific, and they all exchange nutrients through the rhizosphere, if you grow more than 4 families of plants in a cover crops (and it actually works better without legumes, which is weird), then you get a huge quantity of nitrogen, phosphorus etc... and don't need any fertilizer for the following crop (wheat, corn...). Here's the kicker though : when you use ammonium or nitrates, you kill that ability from plants, they don't have a proper rhizosphere any more (why ? Christine doesn't say, but it's an experimental result she's seen everywhere). So IF any fertilizer is needed, it needs to be in the form of ammino acid, to still have that rhizosphere. I wished it were mentioned somewhere in huge black letters in that video. Ammino acid fertilizer is gonna be needed of course for soils with only 1 or 2 % of organic matter (sadly a lot of our soils here in Europe). But if you got a nice 4% and above, you can just forget fertilizers and do cover crop only.

[@turke6756]

You learn to be more realistic when you actually work with large scale growers…your not just going to drop all inorganic fertilizer and live in an idealized world when it’s your livelihood riding on this years yield. Baby steps

[@ryecarlson7867]

He's talking to commercial growers that use hi N synthetic fertilizer. It's a bigger market for their products. Christine Jones knows her stuff, but it's very hard for farmers that just farm corn and beans to implement that.

[@projectmalus]

Sounds good and eventually my sandy gravel with a skin of good stuff will be there, thru cover crops. This video reinforced my idea that I can treat the cover crops with AEA products to get that balanced soil/redox/pH result, and when the orchard gets going use their products judiciously to enhance the sugars and thwart pests :)

[@nicolasbertin8552]

@@ryecarlson7867 yeah farmers are stubborn... It's just sad that they don't understand that there's actual scientific evidence that diverse cover crops restore soils so fast... But I don't blame farmers for not trusting science anymore. It's the same science that told them the NPK model was good, that tilling was good. In the end, they destroyed their soils while no one told them to stop at once before it's too late. Now you got soils in Spain with 0.5% organic matter where nothing grows... Vineyards in France where the erosion has been so bad because of tilling and nakes soils that there's just bare rock. They use a rock crusher to have some sort of substrate and then bring tons of compost and wood chips to try and restore it. They have soils so badly polluted with copper sulfate that, again, nothing grows any more. It's just sad to see.

[@nicolasbertin8552]

@@talmid39 lol that sounds like a Ginsu knife commercial

[@anthonycopacetic5016]

Yes!

[@victoria8465]

What, if any, programs exist for producers to earn money or offset credits through nitrogen use changes? Are there programs within the carbon market or something similar to carbon credit calculators that can connect NO2 reductions and act as a pathway to participate in markets?

[@kofrass5730]

Farming bug crap over here

[@partidaportet27]

I like Chitin, we used it to reduce frost damage but it does need timing and that's harder with the constant weather blips

[@jeremyschissler337]

frass kicks ass!!!!...i like ya biochar concept ya got therr budrow....keep up the great work!!!

[@kofrass5730]

@@partidaportet27 frass mineralizes in 10 days, perhaps sooner with a fermentation.

[@HippieFertilizing]

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