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Post by shmiffy on May 29, 2024 10:01:21 GMT -6
Lots of little earthworms. Never have I seen so many little earthworms. I have not seen one wire worm this year. Crop residue seems to be broke down to the point I have to clean the airseeder fan off 5-6 passes in most fields. Morris 9450. Rad on the tractor has been blown out a couple times. Ground seems to very mellow. Haven’t seen any grasshopper eggs. Checked my neighbours field across the road and they are easy to find.
I did not put any granular thru the drill this year except for 30 acre trail. Kinda nice not handling any. Did add 2 poundsacre of granular phos in liquid cart. Went with 3 pounds an acre of compost in 12 gallons/acre water. 200-300ml monosilici acid. 1/2liter molasses. Did a section of Oats with 1.25 liters fish emulsion added in liquid cart. More plugged lines and filter on the cart was plugging 1/2 way thru 20 mesh. Fish definitely gets bacteria and fungi growing. Used to totes of humic acid at 1 liter an acre at the start. Lyudmyla said there would be lots of humic in the compost extract im using ,unless I’m adding a lot of nitrogen it would be no required to add more. I didn’t see a difference last year where I did or didn’t use humic.
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Post by Oatking on May 29, 2024 20:31:29 GMT -6
Lots of little earthworms. Never have I seen so many little earthworms. I have not seen one wire worm this year. Crop residue seems to be broke down to the point I have to clean the airseeder fan off 5-6 passes in most fields. Morris 9450. Rad on the tractor has been blown out a couple times. Ground seems to very mellow. Haven’t seen any grasshopper eggs. Checked my neighbours field across the road and they are easy to find. I did not put any granular thru the drill this year except for 30 acre trail. Kinda nice not handling any. Did add 2 poundsacre of granular phos in liquid cart. Went with 3 pounds an acre of compost in 12 gallons/acre water. 200-300ml monosilici acid. 1/2liter molasses. Did a section of Oats with 1.25 liters fish emulsion added in liquid cart. More plugged lines and filter on the cart was plugging 1/2 way thru 20 mesh. Fish definitely gets bacteria and fungi growing. Used to totes of humic acid at 1 liter an acre at the start. Lyudmyla said there would be lots of humic in the compost extract im using ,unless I’m adding a lot of nitrogen it would be no required to add more. I didn’t see a difference last year where I did or didn’t use humic. What kind of product is this ? Does it come as a granular ? What stage can it be applied ? I used granular humic on all my canola. I did leave a strip trail . 7 lb an acre . Vermicompost sounds interesting |
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Post by shmiffy on May 31, 2024 19:43:28 GMT -6
Compost is ran thru a 1/2” to 3/8” screen. Then it’s put in an extractor. Knocks most of the biology,humics/fulvics off the silt,sand,wood particles.
You can get vermicompost Pellets but you would need 15 pounds an acre or more. Compost extract is a good bang for your buck. High quality compost you can get for $.50 to alittle over a buck /pound
It can be put on preseeding , in row ,as many times you want foliar and in the fall.
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Post by SWMan on May 31, 2024 22:16:30 GMT -6
What are you composting and what does that operation look like? I also have used several humate products and not noticed a difference. Not sure if many guys actually do proper trials or just trust the sales guy. Possibly different land/fertility/management reacts different and some do get a response. Handling liquid at seeding does not really excite me.  |
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Post by shmiffy on Jun 1, 2024 16:22:09 GMT -6
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Post by shmiffy on Jun 1, 2024 16:32:38 GMT -6
I used pig pen for making compost. Lots of wood chips. Between the 17 pigs and the pen a 1400 lb round bale gets used up in 4-5 days. Pigs make compost pretty fast compared to anything else.
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Post by Oatking on Jun 1, 2024 20:26:44 GMT -6
What is the green implement called that makes the compost into a windrow pile?
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Post by shmiffy on Jun 2, 2024 20:04:50 GMT -6
Compost turner.
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Post by shmiffy on Jun 2, 2024 20:05:22 GMT -6
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Post by Snipe on Nov 11, 2024 7:22:29 GMT -6
Where did you get your compost turner? What make is it
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Post by shmiffy on Nov 11, 2024 19:05:02 GMT -6
Global repair. They are an Ontario company. Sittler compost turner. Greg at hybrix manufacturing has some Chinese turners I think they are a lot cheaper in
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Post by SWMan on Nov 21, 2024 20:42:50 GMT -6
Finally got around to watching this video, couple comments: Not a big fan of his use of the terms "chemical farmer" or "chemical fertilizer". The Haber process uses only water, natural gas and nitrogen from the air to make nitrogen fertilizer. Not sure about other fertilizers specifically but they are mined from the ground or scrubbed from oil refining process in the case of sulfur. Hardly a bunch of chemicals. He also said weeds like things that crops don't, like salt. Maybe he is just talking about kochia or foxtail barley, but a lot of my weeds do really well on the fertile parts of my field where crops do well and don't grow in the poor areas. Can't really argue with a lot of what he says, oxygen in the soil in spring is important. Tiling a field and keeping excessive wetness to a minimum has payed big dividends here. I do wonder about the compost, isn't it just manure which lots of guys are putting on from cattle and hog operations already? My soil is full of earthworms if it's the worms that make the difference? I have a feeling there is something to be learned through all of this, and there are surely things that can be integrated into our farming operations. I'm not going organic though, that has not proven sustainable or profitable yet. |
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Post by garyfunk on Nov 22, 2024 7:03:33 GMT -6
Sorry, I had to stop that video when he started saying it was a "secret" that grain is full of carbohydrates, not just npks. Good Grief!
Starting with good seed is of the utmost importance. A good seed has everything it needs to germ and emerge to start photosynthesis. Anyone ever do a germ test in wet paper towel? And most times good seed doesn't cost any more than poor seed.
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Post by shmiffy on Nov 22, 2024 15:04:51 GMT -6
There is a big difference in composted manure and high quality compost. Put an ec meter and the difference is huge between compost types. High quality compost isn’t about npk, it’s all about biology and soil food web.
There’s a few weeds that like high calcium and phos but 99% of them don’t
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Post by shmiffy on Nov 22, 2024 15:39:17 GMT -6
There is something about phos after it’s mined and the calcium is split from it. It then messes up the water cycle in the plant.
I was pretty skeptical of some there claims. Now after 2 years of using compost extracts I’m agreeing to what Glen talks about.
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