2022 Keith Berns Carbonomics - PrairieFood™ Forum + Soil Health Workshop

2022- Keith Berns Carbonomics - PrairieFood™ Forum + Soil Health Workshop
Keith Berns, Co-Owner of Green Cover Seed
Learn from Green Cover Seed Co-Founder from Nebraska Keith Berns about the wonderfully complex economy that plants, soils and biology engage in every day. Utilizing carbon as the currency, learn how plants interact with soil microorganisms to “buy” and “sell” services and nutrients and learn how to wean your farm off of agricultural welfare.
PrairieFood™ is a young, vibrant, up-and-coming company with a focus on a triple-P bottom line: taking care of People and the Planet by helping everyone in the supply chain be Profitable. PrairieFood™ is a micro carbon soil amendment that stimulates naturally occurring biology that acts as catalyst for change. When paired with regenerative agricultural practices, we see results in healthier soil and plants, more nutritious food and healthier people. PrairieFood™ also provides education about Regenerative Agriculture practices to help farmers be successful on their farm and to build a legacy of a sustainable operation for future generations.

[@David-oe1xj]

Thks, gr8INFO

[@timothy199662002]

Hi Keith, what presentation of carbonomics do you discuss the role of Carbon as it relates to weather? I know I recall you stating your opinion on its effect. thanks.

[@audimaster5000]

41:00 is a profound realization how confused/insane the fertilizer industry/modern agriculture has become.
The microbiology of soil is practically whats responsible for everything that make possible our entire existence and life.

[@onegreenev]

My issue is how to get past hardpan. Our hardpan is like concrete. Feels like super fine silt that has compacted over the decades and is just terrible trying to bust through that. Im a home farmer with 1.5 acres usable. I have irrigation but that hard pan persists. It is the color of concrete too. But it is not concrete. How does one get roots to penetrate that layer. It may be like 5" to 8" thick then goes softer. I have a wild grown Pecan Tree that seems to have penetrated that hardpan because we don't water it at all and it is tall and very healthy. Produces and over abundance of nice small pecans each year. Too many for us to consume. Can't shake them out of the tree either. Too big. Even a stout walnut tree shaker could not budget them out. But for the hardpan Im at wits end. Im making compost tea this week for the first time. I wish to know. I don't know where in the food web Flax would be found. I want to find the proper bacteria and fungi amounts that will make for good growth for my Flax plants. I use the flax plants for textile fiber and not seed. I need them tall and healthy.

[@mitchellbrown9713]

There is a solution, but it took many years to create the hard pan, and it will take many years to break it up. You need to find an area with trees. You need to contact a tree trimmer and offer to pay for wood chips from tree trimming. You need to have him deliver the wood chips to your land. You then need to wait five years for the wood chips to decay. As they decay, they will retain rain water between rains. Seeds will use that moisture to dig into your soil and break it up. Sorry, I don’t have a faster method.

[@dianajschroedl3099]

You need a living cover and grazers on the land.

[@leroytrussell6304]

Do as Nature naturally