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[compost_tea] Re: no-till farming



Hello, Bob of "I read it so many times I can't remember it now", 
Dennis



--- In compost_tea@yahoogroups.com, Robert Norsen <bnbrew@y...> wrote:
> Somewhere on the web I read of  research that reported foliar 
fertilizer was 8 to 12 times more efficient that soil - root 
fertilizers.
>  


what is foliar fertilizer? ACT with additives? Or is it ACT diluted 
ten-fold? I'm guessing it depends.Dennis





> If you use Dr E's example of  5% of the normal fertiizers are 
required when compost and ACT are used then multiply that by  say 6 
time the efficiency just math says foliar would need 1% of the 
fertilizers normally suggested by Monsanto etc..  
>  
> Please don't plant a 1000 acres based on tha SWAG.  But you might 
do well to carry on the research yourself, trying to approach thot as 
a goal but proving it on small test areas of your larger fields.   
Then  your report to us - OK ?  Bob 
> 

Here's the first report: I have approx. 10 Acres of milo which has 
too many pigweeds and velvet weeds, and approx 3 A alfalfa with too 
much foxtail and wild lettuce, and approx 1A of melons and squash 
with too many cucumber beetles, squash bugs, pigweeds and  mexican 
sandburrs, and around 10 A the milk cow and 2 Year old bull calf are 
grazing indigenous plants/weeds (wild oats, wild lettuce and pigweeds)
with some weeds they aren't eating. And I insist on using no 
pesticides, herbicides and NPK fertilizers and have been discing 
mostly and plowing a little. I'm thinking of using the V-blade on the 
hard land the cattle are grazing so I won't mess up the micro and 
macro arthropods,worms and centipedes and oxygen concentration cause 
I want to plant alfalfa and brome this fall.  ACT must be a natural 
at this farm, with some "extras" added to set soil foodweb in action. 
Dennis






> dkemnitz2000 <dkemnitz2000@y...> wrote:
> --- How about adding  micros(nutrients) with foliar ACT if 
necessary 
> and macros by injection? I'm  thinking the first year the ACT will 
> have to be foliar fed many times. Then I'll need an injector which 
> doesn't upset soil foodweb.   Dennis
> 
> 
> 
> 
> In compost_tea@yahoogroups.com, "J Peter Young" <peter@b...> wrote:
> > ACT alone contain very, very little nutrients. If you add enough 
to 
> make a
> > difference - then it's fertilizer.
> >  
> > Peter
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Norsen [mailto:bnbrew@y...] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:05 AM
> > To: compost_tea@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: RE: [compost_tea] no-till farming
> <><><<<><clipped by Dennis<><><><><><><><>


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