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[compost_tea] Re: no-till farming



---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@yahoogroups.com, Shane Gishford <iccs10@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@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@y...] 
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 10:21 PM
> To: compost_tea@yahoogroups.com
> 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@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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