17 years ago I was involved with a company doing mineral fertilisers part of the program was soil biology. Was talking to a farmer about fhe product, mentioning mychoryza fungi, when he gets up goes to his bookshelf, brings back a farmers handbook from the Agricultural Dept here in Australia dated 1902 mentioning the benefits of Mychoryza fungi. His question was if they knew it then what happened in between? Bayer Monsanto etc. Good video will be looking at more.
@@harrisonfunke8466 He didnt say they were fertilizer companies, he was answering the question They are/were chemical companies. I think his point is chemicals are the answer
I’m not sure that Bauer doesn’t own Monsanto, and they are agricultural pharmaceutical chemical companies that have bled farmers dry for years. Yeah it’s easy to chemical farm- because you killed off all your soil’s biological activities. Reinstating fungal/microbial activity is not artificial chemical farming.
@@sleeplessinthecarolinas8118 I suspect you can use any fungus. Most good grow shops carry a mycro boost supplement you can mix in water and use. I use wine cap as I know the process and I also sell the wine caps spawn.
As an amateur soil biologist who has studied the biological health and recreating the diversity with in it, you are definitely on the right track to have productive fields that will be resilient for decades to come. There's an interesting conversation to be had about the profitability of carbon sequestration and also moisture retention. Keep up the good work.
Funny ... I do this in my garden for the water retention properties ... the West Coast droughts every summer ... and of course all the nitrogen locked up in amino acids ... but mainly I compost to save money at the dump ...
@@jroche1832 Rotational management of the livestock is the best tool to achieve the best soil health. By timing the paddock moves the land can heal and regenerate like crazy all on it's own. Check out Greg Judy and Joel Salatin.
Awesome! This is what Dr. Elaine Ingham (Soil Food Web on RU-vid) has been teaching for years. She said there's no soil on earth that is depleted of nutrients. Only soil that is lacking the proper ratio of fungi to bacteria which is necessary to break down the minerals within the soil into a bioavailable form that plants can easily uptake. Pretty amazing stuff. She said even in the desert with no water, crops can grow if the soil biology is there. She replenishes the fungi and bacteria with compost tea.
One of the biggest issues with agricultural soils at present is that manganese is not available to plants, due to chenical applications. Advancing eco agriculture has some great content on the topic of unlocking manganese in soil to make it available. Plants need manganese to thrive.
Great to see your 'real' scale experimentation trials and proof of what works. Also wonderful that the work of amazing Australian, Dr Christine Jones is receiving recognition for her work.
Sorry I have to be that guy but there are so many more factors. First kudos for going too no-till. Been there for a long long time. Absolutely amazing the difference in the soil between no-till and conventional till. Here’s the thing, no idea on how much manure was used. Was there a legume crop previous? Was there a legume cover crop previous? What’s the soil OM% Also a visual of corn in a field does nothing to say for how it will produce. We were in pretty good drought this year. May be some of the worst looking corn we’ve had but ended up being the highest yielding ever? I get it, your marketing. And your doing a good job. The fact is corn requires 1.1 lb of N per bushel. We can get 10-30 lbs of free N from the soil per OM% with 6% OM% we grow 200 by corn routinely with only 50 lbs of N.
I’ll have to look at the records but it was 2017 or 2018 for the 3 fields referenced in this video for getting manure. I’ll measure OM in 2023. Last time we did it was only 1.8-2.2 on these fields I think it was 2020z. We’ve never raised a Legume cash crop We put 1-2lbs of Legumes in every most cover crop mixes The history has been sense Circle A 2016 full tillage history planted to corn After 2016 corn crop cut no-till began 2017 cover Crops 2018 corn over 2019 cover crops 2020 corn 2021 cover crops 2022 corn Every year we have applied 180-220lbs of N according to what the soil samples called for. This year we only applied 100lbs because of the result we had last year. I recommend you calling me or watching my presentation at Burlington. I hope im wrong but when you say “I’m marketing” it comes across like you believe I’m being disingenuous for effect, I’m not. Im marketing for Lance because I believe in his company. I am trying to get people to stop over applying fertilizers and to start using these composting methods. I’m doing that to save farmers money and to get less N in our water ways. I encourage you to watch this video Johnson Su Compost: Improving Soil Health While Reducing Input Cost/ With Jay Young I get into more detail Or you can call me 620-376-8593 If you want to continue discussion on RU-vid that’s fine.
@@youngredangus6041 very good response. I appreciate that. So what you need to do is get replicated third party trials with verified numbers. Right now everything is anecdotal. Also it’s about scale and economic feasibility. More importantly it’s about ROI. If what your doing is on the up and up then it will be easily replicated. Furthermore, you need to mention how your testing soil nitrate. Because that test is so sensitive too so many outside factors. Ie how long did the sample take to get to the lab, the moisture level of the sample taken and the moisture of said sample when received by lab. Time of the year. Amniotic temperatures. Also very skeptically 3300 lbs of soil N. We raise legumes and legume cover crops never seen anything like that. You are correct on microbes and the fungi in the soil. Listen if your on too something you need to do more as far third part trials. I’m sorry I travel all over the country meeting different vendors, agronomist, agribusiness leaders and farmers. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve run too situations like this. Most of the time 2 factors emerge. 1. Their full of shit 2. The situation there in induces the response they see and can not be replicated to the same degree. Now there is a third and very rare case where the idea and product works too perfection. Keep on working but in my oppinion unless you have more third party day (university, agribusiness (ie becks)) your videos are simply marketing on an anecdotal base. It cause much harm to farmers because people who do not know anything different attack farmers and causes more undeserved grief.
@@Jns27j I’m sorry it’s really hard to tell if you are being serious and genuine or if you are just trying to troll me. Have you studied much on Johnson Su Compost or Elaine Ingham? If you have then you are aware of all of their research that’s already been done and I don’t know why you are asking me to do 3 party verified research. It’s already out there I’m just sharing what we are doing. So if you are aware of their research then you are just trolling me. If you are not aware of what they have done use the “google” and do your own research and then call me so we can have an actual conversation rather than one that I can hear voice inflection to or attitude. I really can’t tell if you seriously care or if you are just a troll.
@@youngredangus6041 Firstly I appreciate what you are trying to do here, and I think it’s quite interesting, but based on those dates you had no cash crop every other year to gain these benefits. Is that correct? If so I’m sad to say this may not have real application in a commercial setting where the landlord would be without pay every other year. Many farmers do not own the land on which they grow crops. I can think of a ton of landlords that would absolutely lose their heads over not getting paid yearly.
This was/is very educational, not only to other farmers, but to others who want to grow 1-2 acre gardens, grow off the grid per say❤️ It really sickens me to know the evilness in USDA/GMO government thought they had control over many people!!! Now, that the majority of us (AWAKE) knew/know the food we were eating & the water we were drinking was poison can pass this Mother Nature information to a healthy bright future❤️🌍 thank you for sharing & continue to educate, this is a blessing to pass onto our children & grandchildren. Because God knows our children AREN'T being taught this in the schools, but we can teach them from home schooling them❤️ A Healthy Future❤️👪 God Bless🙏
If only you and most people would spend some time and effort trying to find a "breakthrough" in stopping child abuses and harms that are occurring generationally and are pretty much delusionally denied by severely harmed people who act like brainwashed cult members actually doing more harm than good and perpetuate stupidity and corruption.
Instantly liked and subscribed. I've known for some time that soil Microbes were key. in recent years the practice of " Seeding " microbes has been shown to work. if your soil is poor - go to where plants are thriving and take some soil as a " starter Culture ' and soon the ground will come alive. Thank You for this data. My country New Zealand is being RUINED by Monsanto( and other companies ) covering the land with Nitrogen so now our farm run-off is making our rivers full of Algae and our Ocean's top predator the Orca are the most toxic on the planet ! ! ! Thanks again for this planet saving data.
Love this video promoting regenerative agriculture! PLEASE look up Gabe Brown from Bismarck, North Dakota. Brown's Ranch is 100% regenerative agriculture, zero chemical inputs for their crops. Mr. Brown's story of how he was financially forced into going regenerative and is so thankful that hardship put him on the right path. It's amazing what can be accomplished using regenerative methods. Best wishes on your journey to cut out the big ag parasites eating your profits.
I grew up on a farm in Minnesota decades ago and always wondered about the huge amounts of fertilizer applied. This makes so much sense. Now living in the Philippines where most agriculture is still in a very primitive stage.
Where are you in the Philippines? Most farmers here are doing conventional methods (based on what I've seen personally and looking at data from studies) but in a smaller scale ( for fruit production though farms can be 100+ hectares each). Americans brought the green revolution here too so use of synthetic fertilizer is very common.
I've been hearing about how we've been destroying the friendly fungus and bacteria in our soils with all the additives we've been dumping into them. I've also been hearing how important it is to have this fungus and bacteria community because they make minerals bio available to the plants. But this is the first time I've heard anyone explain how to restore them to the soils. Thank you.
COMPLETELY AWESOME .... I learned about the Johnson-Su compost method2 years ago.... Im excited to see you using it and killing it. I am a beginner farmer, learning lots on youtube here. Did a happy dance yesterday when I stumbled across your channel....
U are definately on the right track. Making your soil alive is the way to go. Nature uses animal manures to enrich the soil. I'm wondering if grazing the left over corn would help in that way. I dont grow corn, but do have an organic farm and breed goats for meat. At all times I am working on increasing the fertility of the soil by not over grazing & spelling paddocks. The goal is to increase the soil fertility each yr, using no artifical fertilizers. Water retention is also a by product of applying the above methods ..
Loved this one, you explain things so well!!! I find each video truly interesting and you can see all of the hard work and true passion you have for these crops
@@curtisbacon7856 The one I don’t get is the guy who raised the 200 bushel corn in 50lbs of N. Of all people he should understand how everything works.
Fantastic Fungi goes deep into this topic. They have a great animation and explanation of what fungi can do below the surface for itself and the benefit to other plants.
There are studies in Austria showing that fungi grown on wood chips while in pig pens is the best fungi you could grow. We spray compost tea, humic acid, calcium, emulsified fish and soft rock phosphate. Hoping to get into compost extraction.
Misconceptions about compost tea abound. It's best after 48 hours of air bubbling and it's not for foliar application. It should be watered in heavily too as the bugs need to get to the roots somehow. You could easily double your effects by a just water application after the compost tea has been applied, the same rig could apply both. The bugs set up next to a root hair and in trade for water when times get drier, the root hairs feast on the waste the bugs produce (bug poo) which is what the plant really needs and is after in the first place. More bugs equals faster plant growth and higher yields. Since bug numbers in the compost tea media is a square root function of time mathematically, by cutting it off at 24 hrs you have just shortchanged yourself by a vastly much larger number of bugs. You don't need to sell me on better growth with compost tea, I've never seen such a difference myself - it's beyond incredible. Be there or be square as they used to say.
Talk about a misconception... Compost tea is absolutely for foliar application. That is a very good fit for it as it's so active. Are you farming or gardening?
wow this is a message that needs to get out there, especially to europe. the fertalizer shortages are bringing on global hunger, this stuff should be prioritized by global food agencies if it works.
I just came from one of your other videos where I had a question you need to have to be here. This is definitely a lot more encompassing and answered a few questions. Do you know of anybody that has experience with conventional tillage and no cover crops? I think the only way to start looking into this is to convince Dad to try it on her conventional acres first.
Amazing you can take a technigue that small gardeners like me use on an industrial monocrop! I wonder if this technique can be used on grass pasture for cattle?
@@youngredangus6041 I have used the rhizopagy cycle to grow bananas, which demand a lot of nitrogen and potassium even before I knew what it is. You can see a similar thing with invasive elephant grass, which can grow on coral rock which has no nitrogen once the right bacteria grow with the plants. Once the right amount of water is present things really grow.
The atmosphere is 78% nitrogen, in the form of N2 , a gas; well aggregated soil has good porosity and gas exchange; If you do a Google search with the search phrase 'kg of nitrogen N2 in the atmosphere above every acre of land' you'll find numerous search results presenting info such as 'every acre of land in the world is covered by about 75 million pounds of N'. N-fixing bacteria can fix as much as the following quantities of N in healthy soils: Root Nodule Simbiotic Bacteria Rhizobium 50-465 kg N per ha per year Lucerne, Clovers, Beans, Cowpeas, Vetch Associated Nitrogen binding Bacteria Azospirillum, Nitro-,Acetobacter 170kgN/ha/year Maize, Wheat, Sugarcane, Barley, Sorghum Free-living Nitrogen binding Bacteria Cyanobacterium 80 kg N/ha/year Farmers like Gabe Brown, Rick Clark etc produce crops that yield well with no synthetic N applications through regenerative management practices that provide a habitat for biology to thrive and work. Many academics and the fertilizer industry will quote vastly lower figures, that are based on assumptions and research on soils where the biology has been starved and nuked by modern farming practices; practicing disruptive, ecologically destructive farming practices that are the opposite of applying regenerative nature / creation based principles: - soil disturbance and biological habitat disruption by tillage and the application of synthetic chemical products (Fertilizers, pesticides); also minimal habitat as a result of organic matter depleted, dis-aggregated, dense soils without aggregate-associated porosity and thin films of water that microbes thrive in. - starving the biological life of food by not maintaining continuous mulch cover and living roots in the soil (which feed microbes via the decomposition and liquid carbon pathways respectively). Green living plants on the land for 4-5 months of the year and soil left bare for the rest of the year. - deficient nutrition for microbes by planting mono-cultures instead of practicing crop and livestock diversity which supplies a rich and varied diet to soil biology - exposing soil life in the vital topsoil layer to moisture and temperature extremes as a result of leacing soil bare instead of covered by a mulch layer ('armour on the soil') Regen ag is based on observation, revelation and insight into some of the how of how natural systems function and applying that to ones farming practices, thereby optimizing freely provided natural resource use and efficiency instead of dependency on and resulting financial strain of the external synthetic input treadmill.
Curious as to your yields. Rule of thumb since the 1940s has been about each 1# of NO3 will improve per acre yield by a bushel. In 1949, Dad went from 15 bushels/acre to 100 bushels/acre just by applying 100# NO3 per acre. This was in the Red River valley, southeast of Shreveport. Soil quality is poor in the south, organic matter is usually no better than about 1%. It's really too hot down here to get it any higher than that.
Should be cutting the fields in a couple of weeks. We have N in our fields already. We have to add the biology to access the N that is already there Our OM is really low too. Our best fields when we started were 2.2
@@youngredangus6041 - unless I am just completely mis-remembering, NO3 is the only form of nitrogen plants can take in. All of the slow release stuff is just some other form of nitrogen that requires microbial life of some sort to convert it to NO3. If the microbial life is absent or in very short supply, very little of the non-NO3 will ever get converted to NO3.
I learned this 45 years ago from a guy at that time who was 70 years old and he learnt it when he was at college, its nothing new. It just been buried by commercial intererests .
Now you're cookin' with gas! You delivered! Dr. Johnson is going to be proud of such an awesome video! Your results cannot be argued with. I guess that's $173,000 in your pocket.
The nutrients are there, they are just not bio available. If there is no life in the soil the system is broken. Plants, soil, and the living organisms works together. If you take away the soil life the plant will suffer. You can add all the n or p you want, if there is no life in the soil to process it and make it bio available it does nothing. Great video by the way, keep putting the word out
A few years ago a landscaper gave me some huge piles of dirt from a rock quarry (grey and grainy). I used a lot of it to make some emergency raised beds. The results were amazing. Year after year these beds just keep giving me amazing vegetables. I'm a believer.
@@buffalopatriot I’m a organic fertilizer distributor in the northwest. We custom blend based off soil samples. A lot of people have nutrients locked up and can’t use them. My stuff unlocks it. It’s really awesome to help farmer grow a good crop and make their soil better at the same time
Great video, though the Johnson bio reactor is a very slow way to make compost. A compost turner would take less than 6 months. The cannabis growers have been practicing these methods for years now. Also using charged biochar is another massive boost for your soil too. Gonna go check the phos video now.
What is the soil type for your research plots. My issue with all fertility research is they never mention the type of soil that they are working with. I can imagine this method would work well in a dryer climate, semi arid moisture regime, with controlled irrigation methods. But how would it fair in cooler climates with frequent rain events on marginal soil types. All agricultural crop research should include the soil type and landscape characteristics with their results.
Hiya, may I suggest you take a peek at advancing eco agriculture channel on RU-vid. So much amazing helpful information there. And real world examples.
Wow, how interesting. If all the Farmer in the Mississippi River Delta did this, we might be able to eliminate the River of Death in the Gulf of Mexico.
Yeah man baby steps. Get them thinking about their pocket books. Then hopefully get them taking care of the land in the way God intend it to be taken care of.
Greetings from Northern Ireland. Not a big corn/maize growing country here. What did you make the compost out of? Price of N has risen 2.5-3 times it used to be here in 2022.
Johnson Su Bioreactor: Why Your Ingredients Matter. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OmL2lBavtHk.html I think this video answers that question well
I encourage you to make it out of leaves. Or if you do a mixture of things like I did in this video keep your carbon source at 60%-70% A guy I know in montana does 50% wood chips 50% horse manure
Great job ! Most tea brewers brew for much longer times have you experminted with longer brew times . maybe you are going for more bacteria dominated vs fungi . what elese do you add besides compost ? Do you add feed for the critters ?
I don't think it is good. Ive tried planting corn with out it twice and my stand is bad because the cut worms eat the seed. Ill keep working at it until we get to where we are able to plant seeds with no treatment. The good news is that the seed responds so well to the extract that even if fungicide is applied then you see the response.
Very interesting stuff! In the Netherlands where I live, we currently have a nitrogen crisis. This means that - on a national level - construction projects are being put on hold and farmers are forcefully being bought out of their farms, because what little nature we have is dying due to nitrogen overdose. In summer, most water here turns green from algae bloom, because there's way too much nitrogen in it, run-off from agriculture. All agriculture here is of the intensive type. We are second exporter in the world of agricultural products, only behind the US and bigger than for example China or Russia(!). Knowledge like you present could do wonders over here. But it seems that our agriculture has reached the point where it is either so intensive that it destroys the environment or has to be shut down; land is insanely expensive here. Hopeful to hear that it can be done differently. Although production is not the main aim in agriculture, I'm very curious to your production per hectare for the various nitrogen levels!
Or you are deceived by a govt. that is destroying what farmers have built up for decades. The govt. forcefully buying farms from farmers should tell you what they are doing is evil. Trying to destroy the farms and buy up their land to convert it into housing for mass immigration,.. "We are second exporter in the world of agricultural products" Right in your comment and you can't see how the farmer is doing fine without the govt. stealing their land.
@@jamescole3152 Thanks for your unfounded uneducated random opinion. You obviously don't know what you are talking about, for example these farmers can only exist due to enormous subsidies and special loan schemes, all facilitated by the government. It has nothing to do with mass immigration. We, as a society, are trying to find a way out of this problem, that is as satisfactory as possible for all parties involved. Having to use less nitrogen for farming could help enormously.
no it matters. But I believe it only kills the fungi that come in contact with it. The good thing is the seed Has such a positive response from the extract that it immediately puts out exudates and feeds the microbes in the soil. I’m going to commit to start planting HERITAGE corns every year and hopefully within time we can find a way to make that profitable
Hey sorry I missed this. I apply it to the seed from one truck to another and use a shuttle and a bobcat. Or if its a summer mix I put it in a box that corn come in and have my young boys mix it up while I'm doing something else. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BZHVj_GFipU.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7q1mdc6jHM8.html
You can also buy ready-made mychoryza such as Orca for small scale use such as in hycroponics. I add some sugar to the reservoir to encourage the mycos to grow.
Thanks man! I worked with a videographer for The Suicide awareness video The Nitrogen Myth and for the upcoming video the Phosphorus problem She has taught me a lot of good techniques that I’m hoping to incorporate in the future
hi our family farm has been doing no till since I believe the mid to late 60s the past 10 years we do a light vertical till to chop up the corn and bean debris left by the combine and only apply fertilizer and nitrogen mix when planting we do a burn down first but every year we have soil samples done for each field and adjust per PH and agronomist recomdation and choose the seeds accordingly we don't do full till but do use sludge and mannuar my Dad also uses drop hoses to put I can't remember what between the corn rows sorry I am usually working somewhere else but we have increased yealds each year and used less fuel and man hours we have given other things a shot but they haven't produced the only thing that matters that is continual ROI increase our fields are clean as well we used to sell micogen and the test things through out the year. now we are only farming around 2200 Acers and around 300 Head of Holsteins milking but I can't see how grazing would be feizable how are you going to control the diet of the cow to maximize milk production we have been breeding AI for along time to get the best genetics for health and production everything is calculated to eliminate veritables so I am wondering what you can do to improve on our system?
I have an 80 year old timer who has done 100% corn on corn for 55 years. He is no till, he puts on anhydrous every fall at a 1/3 rate. He claims that year after year build up of fodder puts more N back than beans ever could. He also claims his soil is so mellow, his root system goes down 20 plus feet. What he is doing works. I’ve shelled 300 bushel corn for him 9 out of the last 10 years.
@@youngredangus6041 We farm, and do some custom work. Our time windows are a little later on the planting side, and earlier on harvest because we’re very short season varieties on corn and beans, they give you that option. Everything is centered on maximum time for cover crops and grazing / beef gain. It gives us an opening to do local custom work. Our niche is being fully dual purpose with land utilization. We pull 20% out for grazing only duty every year as well.
Im mostly all manure fertilizer so yes microbes are and fungi are huge but if you remove year after year you have to put back its sheer weight you can't produce something out of nothing you need to tell the whole story and what climate your farming in how warm your soils stay year round
How thick is your topsoil? What are your organic matter levels? If you didn't add a green or animal manure, most your organic N comes from pooping and decomposing soil microbes and insects, so it would follow that the amount of real estate for those microbes determines how much N is naturally produced by a given soil with a functioning ecosystem. I doubt thin topsoils with low organic matter could produce the same results with a biological innoculant.
Most N.Z. Farmers will apply 600 units of “N” per Ha this is a fact. It will depend on the form of “N” plant available “N” it all depends on what crop Healdsburg you want. Kiwi
The worms are no longer in the soil around me. They used to walk into the puddles in the rain, and into the bodies of water feeding fish and stuff also no longer there. We as the species body must prepare.
Sergio I think you are missing my heart for farmers. I made this video to show what we are doing and to help farmers save money, build their soil health and grow healthier crops. Building a bioreactor is something that is very easy that you yourself can build and use on your farm.
@@youngredangus6041 Please your content is positive and I personally agree with you methods. I was not clear, I’m against a billionaire and the WEF getting on the way of the farmers
My question is, if you went from growing 230 bushel corn with N, to growing 200 bushel corn without N. You lost $160 per acre in yield. I grow 250 bushel corn in Iowa with 165-180 lbs of applied N. My entire nitrogen program ran $80 per acre. If I lost $160 per acre in yield I would lose a massive amount of net profit, about $100k roughly.
What about fungi that grow on the corn itself? We usually have to spray the plants an anti fungal solution, that in my mind would kill ground bacteria..
@@youngredangus6041 i am from South Africa, the micro biology trend is also catching on here in places, I can always enquire locally to. I just wanted to ask about that one thing because it seems like putting in fungi and then killing them is a bad idea.. I guess the answer would be too long for text message type reply..
I’ve found one worm on the field that connects to this one. These worms were on our irrigated circle. It is easy to find them in the irrigated circles. It’s been harder to bring them back
@@youngredangus6041 I told my hay guy I think the pastures have plenty of npk, I am doing vermicompost. He looked confused, and offered me a 70/30 cut his way. Old timers can be stuck in their ways!
While this solution DOES help with two major problems related to settler-colonial food production (soil erosion, overreliance on fertilizers) it still fails to address the more fundamental issues of "conventional" agriculture. Let's say, hypothetically, this solution was successfully implemented on a mass scale (which is not realistic but we'll go with it). The following problems would still remain: 1. Biodiversity. The threat posed to indigenous ecosystems by agriculture is not addressed. Deforestation is a necessary prerequisite to settler agriculture. Without forests, biodiversity declines. 2. Species resilience. Monocrop agriculture will inevitably fail as the climate crisis accelerates exponentially within a handful of years. We are already seeing widespread crop failures across the world. Applying genetic variety may be less profitable in the short term, but it is the only logical investment in the medium-long term. There are other problems but I've wasted enough time on this youtube comment so I'll leave it at that :)
