Hi Dennis - what you need is a BobOLator GRIN! Sorry Jeff, We ARE writting about ACT. I read that article again today at the office. It said up to 20 x more efficient and it was in a paper called ACRES. I will try to send you the exact source tomorrow from my office.I can imagine how your farm is driving you microbes with all that going on. Can ACT fix all that? Maybe improve on it a little at a time until ( we hope ) it gets much better. Bob.
dkemnitz2000 <dkemnitz2000@yhoo.com> wrote: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
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