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[compost_tea] Re: Large scale CT production for farm use



--- In compost_tea@yahoogroups.com, "musicman44jt" <jtheo@s...> wrote:
> --- In compost_tea@yahoogroups.com, "dkemnitz2000" 
> <dkemnitz2000@y...> wrote:
> > --- In compost_tea@yahoogroups.com, "bgunzy" <bgunzy@n...> wrote:
> > > Thanks for the replies.  I agree, ACT by itself doesn't appear 
to 
> > > rebuild OM, but that in combination with cover crops would help 
> do 
> > > the job.  Wouldn't ACT help break down existing residue better 
> than 
> > > if left alone (assuming the present microbial activity is low)?
> > > 
> > > Here's one idea I've thought about: on soybeans going to corn, 
> > > broadcast spread a cover crop like winter wheat, then 
incorporate 
> > it 
> > > and the ACT at the same time with a disk or field cultivator.  
In 
> > the 
> > > spring, disk or field cultivate out the wheat, 
> 
> One method I have heard about is to fall seed oats. They will grow 
in 
> the fall, then get winter killed. Soybeans can then be planted 
> directly in the residue.  Don't know about corn after oats. Jerry
> 


Jerry I planted a few oats last fall in north central KS but the oats 
didn't winterkill and I didn't plant them early enough to get a thick 
mulch. We had somewhat of a mild winter. I wanted to plant garden 
crops in the residue last spring.    Dennis





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> > If you let the wheat get very big you'll have to plow it. How 
much 



Clipped by Dennis<><><><><><><<><><<><><><><<<>



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