Brother, you are an inspiration. I love the trial & error, and experimentation in your video! I have saved so many of your videos. Keep up the good work and good word.
I appreciate your passion. It’s very inspiring to try new things that actually work. This is going to revolutionize growing food for animals and people. Great videos + the Word of God! You’re blowing us away!!!
awesome. we serve a God who is pleased by our good stewardship and animal husbandry. I will be doing this compost extract this spring. And i will do some leaf compost as well!!
Thanks for your encouragement, Robert! Pray for us that we will be able to stand in the times that are quickly approaching. Peace to you and your household.
I really like how you experiment with your farm. Especially as a first generation farmer, there is so much information out there that its hard to figure out what does and doesn't work for you and your plot of land. I find myself experimenting a lot too and I've had some real dud experiments and some really successful ones too. It's exciting to see!
Thanks for that…There’s gotta be folks willing to shake things up if we’re gonna make any headway in changing the current paradigm of big ag chemical enslavement. It’s almost like we have to get to the point where there’s a collective realization that we literally can’t eat paper money. Those trying and even failing now are trailblazing a way out of the grossly overgrown darkness.
yup! The "new ways" are really the old ways. Going back to God's perfect design and balance. I heard a farmer say, "buy hay? Sure I'll take someone else's nutrients" save on equipment and keep the nutrients in your pasture. Next I'll be getting some burnt hard wood in my pastures, charcoal is a benefit to us as well as the animals. Thanks for your video!
@@Owl4909Yeah that seems to be where things get hairy is the connection to microbial counts (biology) and NPK, if any. For instance, take worm castings, which we know tremendously improve soil and plant performance, but send those off for trad NPK test and there’s virtually nothing that comes back! According to Dr. David Johnson just 2lbs of JS compost made into 20 gal extract is equivalent (in biology) to 140 lbs/acre nitrogen tho…would be helpful to know how he came up with that correlation. You’ve got me thinking - I may include a microbiometer test between the two plots depending on how the growth difference plays out, but I’m hypothesizing NPK wouldn’t show much difference. Just my thoughts tho and certainly could be off.
On a similar journey next state north of you, the compost tea that can be made from oak and maple leaves piled up in the fall and then used in the spring can be quite helpful. There was an episode of Young Red Angus channel where he had extract/soil samples analyzed at a lab and the lab guys were telling him to check out the worm farms. Worms put out as much material as cattle that would be on an acre and give higher benefits than the JSu tea. Worms live in the top five inches, right where most heavy tillage destroys them/sets them back. Then keep the soil shaded through heat in the summer to protect those worms. Separate item: search out the high protein heirloom corn (red and blue types) for animals and nixtamazlization/masa process for people. Plant the corn in standing winter rye and flatten the rye after the corn emerges, the rye blocks weeds and then mulches the ground. Use the JSu tea while planting. Early spring oats can substitute for rye if you can't get the rye late Aug through Sept to get maximum growth. Look up presentations by Rick Clark, doing this on five thousand acres supplying cereal companies.
I'm one of those canadians who has her sheep eat snow instead of providing fresh water (because it simply isn't possible to keep water from freezing where i live since we dont have a nearby pasture power supply yet) BUT we also get silage. It helps get those fluids to the sheep plus it still has lots of seeds and other soil nutrients in it. This is our first year feeding silage (in addition to hay) and the sheep really love it. I'd like to keep doing it through every winter.
I gotta watch what I’m sayin - I’ve got Canadian friends now!!🤠 Ok, this is good to know on the silage for sheep. So more nutrients but also more moisture compared to hay, right? So how do you feel about the economics of feeding the silage vs straight hay? Still reasonable from a cost perspective?
@birchfieldfarming haha don't worry, I wasn't offended xD you stated fact and that's fine. I know silage is definitely higher moisture content than hay but it still depends a lot on the quality of the pasture it was harvested from so silage isn't always better than hay and vice versa. That being said, we got high alfalfa content silage for our breeding ewes and supplement with hay from another farm so to me, if nothing else, we are still diversifying the feed, seed and nutrients in our pastures by feeding both. As to cost... we paid $80/bale of silage which was roughly 2000 lbs bales and $100/bale of hay at roughly 1500 lbs bales. Admittedly, I didn't get the hay or silage tested for nutritional value so without that info, it is really hard to give a cost analysis. Imo though, the one thing you should never skimp on is nutrition, especially when breeding. We just wanted to make sure we had plenty of diverse food options through winter for our sheep. Especially with this drought not having an end date in sight, I figured more is better to give our pasture grass a bit more of a break to get a head start in the spring. We got more forage than we technically needed but I think it's going to be better in the long run. Plus we are bale grazing them. Sorry for the ramble lol I should be studying so hopefully this comment made sense 😅
Good video. Would you like to know why you have more sprouts in the biolobically treated area? Work Jimmy Emmons in Oklahoma has done suggests that the soil is warmer with more biolobic activity in the fall and winter with no till and pasture soils. Your compost tea would help that happen and maintain a better environment for seeds to germinate. Next year track the soil temperature and see if my hunch is correct. Rex Peterson, Plum Thicket Farms, Northwest Nebraska.
Hay, if it is fincially viable, is not a bad thing...not so much for the cattle, but for the soil. It makes great soil mass, when missed with cow dung. Nothing beats it, especially when feeding cattle in the winter. But the end of *spring* it is top soil.
For sure! What’s always interesting to me is when we flip those cow pats over in Spring that were made in winter with the hay. The earthworms have mixed soil upwards and taken cow pat downwards, so we see the ground and its organisms literally swallowing up each pat…but that all starts with the winter hay feeding!
Young Red Angus has discussed Johnson Su quite a bit. Perma Pasture Farms discuss a lot of composting and permaculture principles. Dr Elaine Ingham covers a lot on soil health.
You got it, lots of folks making discoveries as well. I’ve really enjoyed following Jay Young as he scales Johnson-Su on his row crops. His “nitrogen myth” video and some of the trials they’ve run are very interesting.
Still got time to get those leaves, get it going! We need more good folks drawing attention to the simplicity of once again empowering the small family farm! Thanks for watching.
Uh what you have "discovered" is called compost tea and it has been around since humans began farming! btw, if you let the tea "set", a process of allowing the good bacteria in the extract to grow or multiply by leaving it sitting around for a few hours to days, it will become even more powerful. It is a form of liquid fertilizer unless you add manure, in which case it is a natural fertilizer!
Actually, this is an extract not a tea, meaning we’re not soaking for time but rather mechanically knocking off microbes. This is a bit different (exciting) in that the extract can be easily scaled up and applied in a row crop setting. Teas can be good tho!
True, it's a compost extract. Also, experts wouldn't let a compost tea sit around for days. A true compost tea has to be used quickly before it starts going anaerobic.
I gardened in the Guadalupe mts. of New Mexico. Our land butted up to open range forest land. The soil is very poor there for vegetable gardening. I would walk out into the forest, gather cow pies, then gather my chicken coop poop and dirty bedding. I kept a barrel of water and put all that poop in the water. It made a fertilizer tea. I would pour it on my garden plots. Only way I could grow up there on the mt. Cheap but effective fertilizer.
Why aren’t more farmers doing this ? Spraying chemicals is making us sick. I started composting on my acre but the farmer next to my land stays chemicals three or four times a year. Wish I could get him to understand this.
@@bettyturley6735As prices continue to rise, they will be forced to find alternatives. Unfortunately, it’s come to the place where some still need to learn they can’t eat paper money.
Happy to hear that your hard work paid off. Thanks for sharing, Im glad you walked through the steps in your videos. You are an inspiration to others.
Thanks, Stuart! Always encouraged by your comments!
Brother, you are an inspiration. I love the trial & error, and experimentation in your video! I have saved so many of your videos. Keep up the good work and good word.
Thank you for following and for your encouragement. I’m honored folks are finding value in the content.
I appreciate your passion. It’s very inspiring to try new things that actually work. This is going to revolutionize growing food for animals and people. Great videos + the Word of God! You’re blowing us away!!!
Thanks for being here, Heidi!🤠🙏
Nova Scotia 🇨🇦 God is so GOOD.
Love the excitement, joy, and the information. Keep it up brother!
Thanks Nick!🤠
awesome. we serve a God who is pleased by our good stewardship and animal husbandry. I will be doing this compost extract this spring. And i will do some leaf compost as well!!
Absolutely, let me know how things turn out, Karl!🌱
Thank you for your videos and how you start with good Word. How can I be praying for your family and farm
Thanks for your encouragement, Robert! Pray for us that we will be able to stand in the times that are quickly approaching. Peace to you and your household.
I really like how you experiment with your farm. Especially as a first generation farmer, there is so much information out there that its hard to figure out what does and doesn't work for you and your plot of land. I find myself experimenting a lot too and I've had some real dud experiments and some really successful ones too. It's exciting to see!
Thanks for that…There’s gotta be folks willing to shake things up if we’re gonna make any headway in changing the current paradigm of big ag chemical enslavement. It’s almost like we have to get to the point where there’s a collective realization that we literally can’t eat paper money. Those trying and even failing now are trailblazing a way out of the grossly overgrown darkness.
yup! The "new ways" are really the old ways. Going back to God's perfect design and balance. I heard a farmer say, "buy hay? Sure I'll take someone else's nutrients" save on equipment and keep the nutrients in your pasture. Next I'll be getting some burnt hard wood in my pastures, charcoal is a benefit to us as well as the animals. Thanks for your video!
Awesome! Yes to the biochar!🤠
Good video, id like to see a soil test on the sprayed ground compared to what you didnt spray
Interesting thought - Soil test for difference in microbial counts post spraying or are you wondering if starting NPK was different?
@@birchfieldfarming I was refering to NPK but the microbial life means plenty. Your tests are obviously showing improvment.
@@Owl4909Yeah that seems to be where things get hairy is the connection to microbial counts (biology) and NPK, if any. For instance, take worm castings, which we know tremendously improve soil and plant performance, but send those off for trad NPK test and there’s virtually nothing that comes back! According to Dr. David Johnson just 2lbs of JS compost made into 20 gal extract is equivalent (in biology) to 140 lbs/acre nitrogen tho…would be helpful to know how he came up with that correlation. You’ve got me thinking - I may include a microbiometer test between the two plots depending on how the growth difference plays out, but I’m hypothesizing NPK wouldn’t show much difference. Just my thoughts tho and certainly could be off.
God created a system of abundance.
Yes!🤠🌱⬆️
So true❤
On a similar journey next state north of you, the compost tea that can be made from oak and maple leaves piled up in the fall and then used in the spring can be quite helpful. There was an episode of Young Red Angus channel where he had extract/soil samples analyzed at a lab and the lab guys were telling him to check out the worm farms. Worms put out as much material as cattle that would be on an acre and give higher benefits than the JSu tea. Worms live in the top five inches, right where most heavy tillage destroys them/sets them back. Then keep the soil shaded through heat in the summer to protect those worms. Separate item: search out the high protein heirloom corn (red and blue types) for animals and nixtamazlization/masa process for people. Plant the corn in standing winter rye and flatten the rye after the corn emerges, the rye blocks weeds and then mulches the ground. Use the JSu tea while planting. Early spring oats can substitute for rye if you can't get the rye late Aug through Sept to get maximum growth. Look up presentations by Rick Clark, doing this on five thousand acres supplying cereal companies.
Thanks for sharing! Kids and I built a CFT worm bin and are currently running the JS thru it before Spring…so much to learn!
I'm one of those canadians who has her sheep eat snow instead of providing fresh water (because it simply isn't possible to keep water from freezing where i live since we dont have a nearby pasture power supply yet) BUT we also get silage. It helps get those fluids to the sheep plus it still has lots of seeds and other soil nutrients in it. This is our first year feeding silage (in addition to hay) and the sheep really love it. I'd like to keep doing it through every winter.
I gotta watch what I’m sayin - I’ve got Canadian friends now!!🤠
Ok, this is good to know on the silage for sheep. So more nutrients but also more moisture compared to hay, right? So how do you feel about the economics of feeding the silage vs straight hay? Still reasonable from a cost perspective?
@birchfieldfarming haha don't worry, I wasn't offended xD you stated fact and that's fine.
I know silage is definitely higher moisture content than hay but it still depends a lot on the quality of the pasture it was harvested from so silage isn't always better than hay and vice versa. That being said, we got high alfalfa content silage for our breeding ewes and supplement with hay from another farm so to me, if nothing else, we are still diversifying the feed, seed and nutrients in our pastures by feeding both. As to cost... we paid $80/bale of silage which was roughly 2000 lbs bales and $100/bale of hay at roughly 1500 lbs bales. Admittedly, I didn't get the hay or silage tested for nutritional value so without that info, it is really hard to give a cost analysis. Imo though, the one thing you should never skimp on is nutrition, especially when breeding. We just wanted to make sure we had plenty of diverse food options through winter for our sheep. Especially with this drought not having an end date in sight, I figured more is better to give our pasture grass a bit more of a break to get a head start in the spring. We got more forage than we technically needed but I think it's going to be better in the long run. Plus we are bale grazing them.
Sorry for the ramble lol I should be studying so hopefully this comment made sense 😅
@@ShepherdsCreekWise approach from the nutrition standpoint. Good luck with your studies!
You can use cows to plant seeds for you as well. Just feed them seeds from plants that you'd like in your pastures 😉
I’ve heard this and need to try it, thanks!
Good video. Would you like to know why you have more sprouts in the biolobically treated area? Work Jimmy Emmons in Oklahoma has done suggests that the soil is warmer with more biolobic activity in the fall and winter with no till and pasture soils. Your compost tea would help that happen and maintain a better environment for seeds to germinate. Next year track the soil temperature and see if my hunch is correct.
Rex Peterson, Plum Thicket Farms, Northwest Nebraska.
Fascinating!
Have you ever seen the video titled; 12 April's Dairy?
I know it's quite old, but I think you'd get a kick out of it.
I have seen it, pretty great story! I def got a kick out of it!🐮
Hay, if it is fincially viable, is not a bad thing...not so much for the cattle, but for the soil. It makes great soil mass, when missed with cow dung. Nothing beats it, especially when feeding cattle in the winter. But the end of *spring* it is top soil.
For sure! What’s always interesting to me is when we flip those cow pats over in Spring that were made in winter with the hay. The earthworms have mixed soil upwards and taken cow pat downwards, so we see the ground and its organisms literally swallowing up each pat…but that all starts with the winter hay feeding!
Young Red Angus has discussed Johnson Su quite a bit. Perma Pasture Farms discuss a lot of composting and permaculture principles. Dr Elaine Ingham covers a lot on soil health.
You got it, lots of folks making discoveries as well. I’ve really enjoyed following Jay Young as he scales Johnson-Su on his row crops. His “nitrogen myth” video and some of the trials they’ve run are very interesting.
Amen !!!
🤠🌱
Can see it when you get really close to it
Really impressed, I’m going to have to make some myself!
Still got time to get those leaves, get it going! We need more good folks drawing attention to the simplicity of once again empowering the small family farm! Thanks for watching.
More data and monitoring on this to come, thanks!🤠
Uh what you have "discovered" is called compost tea and it has been around since humans began farming! btw, if you let the tea "set", a process of allowing the good bacteria in the extract to grow or multiply by leaving it sitting around for a few hours to days, it will become even more powerful. It is a form of liquid fertilizer unless you add manure, in which case it is a natural fertilizer!
Actually, this is an extract not a tea, meaning we’re not soaking for time but rather mechanically knocking off microbes. This is a bit different (exciting) in that the extract can be easily scaled up and applied in a row crop setting. Teas can be good tho!
True, it's a compost extract. Also, experts wouldn't let a compost tea sit around for days. A true compost tea has to be used quickly before it starts going anaerobic.
I gardened in the Guadalupe mts. of New Mexico. Our land butted up to open range forest land. The soil is very poor there for vegetable gardening. I would walk out into the forest, gather cow pies, then gather my chicken coop poop and dirty bedding. I kept a barrel of water and put all that poop in the water. It made a fertilizer tea. I would pour it on my garden plots. Only way I could grow up there on the mt. Cheap but effective fertilizer.
Why aren’t more farmers doing this ? Spraying chemicals is making us sick. I started composting on my acre but the farmer next to my land stays chemicals three or four times a year. Wish I could get him to understand this.
@@bettyturley6735As prices continue to rise, they will be forced to find alternatives. Unfortunately, it’s come to the place where some still need to learn they can’t eat paper money.