Peter,
Also consider cover
crops to retain the nutrients. Cut them back at the appropriate time and
their nutrients return to the soil. Also, some cover crops act as a good
mulch to suppress weeds. There are several people at Virginia Tech working
on no-till. Check with Dr. Jerzy Kowak.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 1:04
PM
Subject: RE: [compost_tea] no-till
farming
Depends, Peter, on what is included in the ACT. ACT might
have to carry more than the usual load of nutrients. Then the ACT
will further 'plow back' the waste trash on the field to plant available
nutrients. Compost would certainly be useful if possible.
J Peter Young <peter@bennettvalleyvineyards.com>
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
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@yahoo.com> 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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