[compost_tea] Re: no-till farming

From: dkemnitz2000 <dkemnitz2000_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 00:38:42 -0000

---What will this cost for machinery,essentially sprayer and/or
injector sprayer (for dryland grain sorghum(milo), wheat and
alfalfa),lab tests,compost, fermenter etc. How do you roll seed in
ACT? At what costs? I'll have to run this past the banker? Dennis







 In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, Shane Gishford <iccs10_at_y...> wrote:
> 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_b...> 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_y...]
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 10:21 PM
> To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [compost_tea] no-till farming
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> 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_y...> 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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