RE: [compost_tea] no-till farming

From: Shane Gishford <iccs10_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:11:41 +1000 (EST)

You will need to take a full soil food web test with SFI to see where you are first so the required microbes can be added weather you use compost or CT. You will then need to feed them correctly.
 I have a client who has been no till for a few years now. He has reduced the amount of NPK added a little and is using herbicides mainly Roundup so the weeds don't take the little bit of moisture from the very little amount of rain he has received. The soil food web was very poor which included 0% Mycorrhizal fungi. Current crop had tea put with the water injection wihich included Vam, Molasses, Liquid Humus and Innoculum for nodulation of chick peas. We will be retesting as the crop matures but on root inspection there is very good nodulation of the roots.

J Peter Young <peter_at_bennettvalleyvineyards.com> wrote:
And the ACT will not replace the nutrients removed from the field with the corn. You're going to have to put some compost down as well.
 
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Norsen [mailto:bnbrew_at_yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 10:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [compost_tea] no-till farming


You can find out. As soon as you harvest this fall, select an average part of a field.
Soil drench a couple times a special acre or so. more in the spring and with planting. Again as the corn starts to grow. See what happens. If you start in the spring it will be too late. It takes some time for the microbes to take over the job again that they once did before you started doing it for them. Probably need far more than 20 G/A to make the re-conversion.back to microbe farming. .Of course the little guys need water to work.. .

dkemnitz2000 <dkemnitz2000_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
Would it be possible to grow corn profitably in the midwest using no
till,ie no discing/plowing/ripping, no pesticides, no herbicides, no
added NPK fertilizers while using ACT appropriately(as necessary?)?
Assume you have plenty of water.


I'd expect it grown in rows so it can be harvested mechanically.
Dennis



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