AWESOME video Jay - thanks for posting! You can take it to the bank about vermiculture and working worm castings into your extraction process. When you first introduced it, the 'aeration process' of your Bio-5 system is very similar to my Growing Solutions compost tea system. I make and use the extracted product for both furrow planting and as a biologically active foliar feed. I use the foliar feed in place of commercial pesticides. I have little pest pressure. Research the effects of biologically active foliar feeding on the plant's stomata - it helps to strengthen the plants immune response because the stomata 'allows' beneficial bacteria to migrate into the plant. I also make and use alfalfa tea because alfalfa contains triacontanol, the most potent growth hormone ever used on plants. One last 'trick' I use for the Johnson-Su process...I pre-soak my wood chips with a mycorrhizal blend and then pile and cover those wood chips. After about three to six months [depending on visual inspection for mycorrhiza formation], I'll use those wood chips in my Johnson-Su build. Nature's biology is always right. Again, thanks for posting this VERY informative video! Many blessings!
@@youngredangus6041 First, I'm humbled by your request. But frankly, after reviewing the Biome Makers website...those dudes know way more then me and I suggest you work with them...pick their brains till they bleed if you follow my meaning. I'm so impressed that I'll be in touch with them. For my money, their 'pathway' information is key to understanding any soil's potential from a biological perspective. I grew up on my Grandpap's farm and he was a BIG fan of J. I. Rodale, whose 'principles' were ingrained in me. I've since then studied Rudolf Steiner and other biologically focused farming methods like Korean natural farming. I don't give a rat's ass what Monsanto or the other Big Agri folks say, it's not chemicals that grow plants, it's Nature's biology. And, those dudes in this video can prove just that. Of all your videos, this one has impressed me big time - not to take anything from your other videos. This one talks science. You can now better understand your 'non-chemical' corn yield results. Had I had access to the science services Biome Makers offers 30+ years ago...well...my laugh the whole to the bank would've been louder...if you follow my meaning! Anyhoo...let those dudes from Biome Makers continue informing you with their science - it's spot on in my book! Many blessings.
Hi Jay, I’m an arable farmer in the 🇬🇧. I really appreciate you sharing your efforts as you try and piece together how arable farmers can change their farming to unlock the natural capital in our soils and be far less reliant on damaging artificial inputs. I don’t think many people realise how profoundly important it is going to be to understand what goes on under our feet for our future. It all starts and ends with our soils. I look forward to hearing more from you. Thank you 🙏
This is cool that they are going through this with you. I would suggest they add a Protozoa and Beneficial nematode category. That is where your nutrient cycling really kicks in, so to speak.
Thanks for sharing this, Jay! Very informative! My take-away…the compost is not as much new furniture I’m moving into the house, but more like the front door key - unlocking the pre/furnished house, so I can have access to what’s already there!
Its not so much a key to unlock a house, and more so more workers to come into your fully finihshed manufacturing plant. The whole point of teas/extracts/compost is to create more biology which will go into your land. So you are creating more workers to go and work in your land and together with plants give you food.
That is a really cool video. It's exciting to see someone that is outside of the box of mainstream ag. This just gives me more incentive to put up that heated shop so I can make some of this in the winter.
@@youngredangus6041 I don't think anyone can patent a microbe or a fungi. One solution to our soil health . . . is . . . FREE! The darling creatures are everywhere, all we have to do is feed them and give them a good environment and they will reward us richly! Spread the word; farmers are no longer slaves to synthetic chemicals.
Hahahahaha Thanks man. I feel like an idiot for posting videos on making them different and then having a big majority of them going bad. I am glad it was me though because I don’t mind showing my mistakes and failures. It’s how we learn
@@youngredangus6041 Dude, You are bothering to get the lab work done rather than mererly saying, "It looks good, so it must be good." I lost 2 to full/parial freezing & then becoming hydrophobic to some degree post-thaw. They are just big stand-up worm bins afterall. In any zone with 40 degree F temps or lower you need supplemental heat to keep the worms alive, working & hydrated. There's a couple of clowns in zone 9b who can't manage it even with a weather advantage. The mods they made were not improvements though they expected superior results and then never ordered any lab work on the finished product....just declared success. I salute your efforts in that they are honest from beginning to end.
main point is to be consistent with test ... from same place in different times to have ... time laps comparison and changes .... like weather report taking measures with different instruments at same location/time
Hi Jay, your my next best thing since sliced bread! I can hear you wanting to know if your product can be better, so my question is, can one build your compost to be the best it can be(diversity and ratios of fungi/bacteria) and how would one go about it? My other question is, if I cannot plant cover crops because the off-season is to dry and can only do my cash crops in-season, would that then deplete the nutrients in the soil and if so, what should one do to overcome this? Thanks for your time sharing with us
I think wood chips and leaves are both good for getting diversity. Do you have access to either of those? Our best looking one is 60% cornstalks 20% grass clippings 10% horse manure 10% wood chips Can you get a cover crop interseeded into your cash crop?
Hi Jay Thanks for all your effort in Johnson au bio reactor, actually I made my first bio reactor by watching your videos. If you pls help me in the following will be greatly appreciated:- 1) What’s a name of lab test you did? 2) My bio reactor is 4 months old, how keep the right moisture content, my worries are I have electro rod moisture guage when it says 60% moisture level and when I do the hand test 5 to 6 droplets comes out
This might be a crazy question but In order to collect the sample for regen ag labs. Is there a specific way collect the sample other than just using a standard soil probe?
How is the compost gotten into the soil without ruining the mycorrhiza lay at the first 6 inches? Can it be just mixed into two inches at the top or just put on the top of the field?
To my understanding mycorrhiza isn’t in compost. The fungi in compost is Saprophytic fungi that break down dead plants. They are important to have in the soil but are different to saprophytic fungi
Ideally you do not want to till fungi into the soil. Inoculate your seed or crimp a cover crop and spray that. Fungi are vulnerable to tilling so that would be counterproductive.
AWESOME video Jay - thanks for posting! You can take it to the bank about vermiculture and working worm castings into your extraction process. When you first introduced it, the 'aeration process' of your Bio-5 system is very similar to my Growing Solutions compost tea system. I make and use the extracted product for both furrow planting and as a biologically active foliar feed. I use the foliar feed in place of commercial pesticides. I have little pest pressure. Research the effects of biologically active foliar feeding on the plant's stomata - it helps to strengthen the plants immune response because the stomata 'allows' beneficial bacteria to migrate into the plant. I also make and use alfalfa tea because alfalfa contains triacontanol, the most potent growth hormone ever used on plants. One last 'trick' I use for the Johnson-Su process...I pre-soak my wood chips with a mycorrhizal blend and then pile and cover those wood chips. After about three to six months [depending on visual inspection for mycorrhiza formation], I'll use those wood chips in my Johnson-Su build. Nature's biology is always right. Again, thanks for posting this VERY informative video! Many blessings!
Dude that is awesome!
Can we talk sometime
I’d love to pick your Brain
@@youngredangus6041 First, I'm humbled by your request. But frankly, after reviewing the Biome Makers website...those dudes know way more then me and I suggest you work with them...pick their brains till they bleed if you follow my meaning. I'm so impressed that I'll be in touch with them. For my money, their 'pathway' information is key to understanding any soil's potential from a biological perspective. I grew up on my Grandpap's farm and he was a BIG fan of J. I. Rodale, whose 'principles' were ingrained in me. I've since then studied Rudolf Steiner and other biologically focused farming methods like Korean natural farming. I don't give a rat's ass what Monsanto or the other Big Agri folks say, it's not chemicals that grow plants, it's Nature's biology. And, those dudes in this video can prove just that. Of all your videos, this one has impressed me big time - not to take anything from your other videos. This one talks science. You can now better understand your 'non-chemical' corn yield results. Had I had access to the science services Biome Makers offers 30+ years ago...well...my laugh the whole to the bank would've been louder...if you follow my meaning! Anyhoo...let those dudes from Biome Makers continue informing you with their science - it's spot on in my book! Many blessings.
Hi Jay, I’m an arable farmer in the 🇬🇧. I really appreciate you sharing your efforts as you try and piece together how arable farmers can change their farming to unlock the natural capital in our soils and be far less reliant on damaging artificial inputs. I don’t think many people realise how profoundly important it is going to be to understand what goes on under our feet for our future. It all starts and ends with our soils. I look forward to hearing more from you. Thank you 🙏
Thanks for the encouragement!
This is cool that they are going through this with you. I would suggest they add a Protozoa and Beneficial nematode category. That is where your nutrient cycling really kicks in, so to speak.
Thanks for sharing this, Jay! Very informative! My take-away…the compost is not as much new furniture I’m moving into the house, but more like the front door key - unlocking the pre/furnished house, so I can have access to what’s already there!
That’s a good analogy
Its not so much a key to unlock a house, and more so more workers to come into your fully finihshed manufacturing plant. The whole point of teas/extracts/compost is to create more biology which will go into your land. So you are creating more workers to go and work in your land and together with plants give you food.
That is a really cool video. It's exciting to see someone that is outside of the box of mainstream ag. This just gives me more incentive to put up that heated shop so I can make some of this in the winter.
Thanks AJ. Are you in the states?
@@youngredangus6041 I farm in SE North Dakota.
"Negative fungi break down plants to feed the healthy fungi". What a lesson. Thanks for pushing this out!
Yeah man
It was really eye opening for me
Thanks Jay appreciate your work here. We'll be getting our compost analyzed genetically
Its amazing . Thks . The info is off the charts . Keep it up . Always learning more
This is great. Thanks for sharing your ongoing progress.
Absolutely
Thanks for the encouragement!
You must feel really good about this! Congratulations!
Thanks. I’m more excited about getting the data out to local farmers and seeing changes Nation wide.
@@youngredangus6041 I don't think anyone can patent a microbe or a fungi. One solution to our soil health . . . is . . . FREE! The darling creatures are everywhere, all we have to do is feed them and give them a good environment and they will reward us richly! Spread the word; farmers are no longer slaves to synthetic chemicals.
Nice convo, ty
Excellent Jay. I already have Jack Chamber pulled up on UA-cam.
Thanks!
Thnx for this.
There are so many idiots out there creating Johnson-Su bioreactors for the sake of making a video without doing any lab analysis.
Hahahahaha
Thanks man. I feel like an idiot for posting videos on making them different and then having a big majority of them going bad. I am glad it was me though because I don’t mind showing my mistakes and failures. It’s how we learn
@@youngredangus6041 Dude, You are bothering to get the lab work done rather than mererly saying, "It looks good, so it must be good."
I lost 2 to full/parial freezing & then becoming hydrophobic to some degree post-thaw. They are just big stand-up worm bins afterall. In any zone with 40 degree F temps or lower you need supplemental heat to keep the worms alive, working & hydrated. There's a couple of clowns in zone 9b who can't manage it even with a weather advantage. The mods they made were not improvements though they expected superior results and then never ordered any lab work on the finished product....just declared success.
I salute your efforts in that they are honest from beginning to end.
main point is to be consistent with test ... from same place in different times to have ... time laps comparison and changes .... like weather report taking measures with different instruments at same location/time
We invented vermicompost with our 1981 breakthrough. It is different than what made it to UA-cam.
We can consult on Whole Systems Design
Hi Jay, your my next best thing since sliced bread!
I can hear you wanting to know if your product can be better, so my question is, can one build your compost to be the best it can be(diversity and ratios of fungi/bacteria) and how would one go about it?
My other question is, if I cannot plant cover crops because the off-season is to dry and can only do my cash crops in-season, would that then deplete the nutrients in the soil and if so, what should one do to overcome this? Thanks for your time sharing with us
I think wood chips and leaves are both good for getting diversity. Do you have access to either of those?
Our best looking one is
60% cornstalks
20% grass clippings
10% horse manure
10% wood chips
Can you get a cover crop interseeded into your cash crop?
Awesome information
Thanks
Hi Jay Thanks for all your effort in Johnson au bio reactor, actually I made my first bio reactor by watching your videos.
If you pls help me in the following will be greatly appreciated:-
1) What’s a name of lab test you did?
2) My bio reactor is 4 months old, how keep the right moisture content, my worries are I have electro rod moisture guage when it says 60% moisture level and when I do the hand test 5 to 6 droplets comes out
Are you from the United States? If you are call me 620-376-8593
If not find me on Facebook and send me a friend request and we can talk through there
That was very interesting!
Did you add worms to your Bioreactor? That makes it part vermicompost.
Yes I did
This might be a crazy question but In order to collect the sample for regen ag labs. Is there a specific way collect the sample other than just using a standard soil probe?
No that is all you need
Wow.
If you use more infurrow product will it enhance the entire benefit?
You mean instead of doing 8 gallons an acer to 20?
How is the compost gotten into the soil without ruining the mycorrhiza lay at the first 6 inches? Can it be just mixed into two inches at the top or just put on the top of the field?
To my understanding mycorrhiza isn’t in compost. The fungi in compost is Saprophytic fungi that break down dead plants. They are important to have in the soil but are different to saprophytic fungi
Ideally you do not want to till fungi into the soil. Inoculate your seed or crimp a cover crop and spray that. Fungi are vulnerable to tilling so that would be counterproductive.
Everything in this world has to work on positive and negative
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