Im always looking forward to your next video post!! Been making bio reactors for little over 3 years I coat all my seeds with it and in furrow plus I coat my cover crop seeds with it as well and it really works any thing I used it on grew healthy and produced amazing crops
I have two questions. In one of your videos you used a roller crimp but then had to go back and spray to kill some of the cover crop that did not get fully crimped. Since spraying will kill the microbiology you are trying to establish brings up a question. My question is, what is the significant difference between using a roller crimp vurses a bush hog to terminate the cover crop? A bush hog would have terminated the cover crop and there would have been no need to go back to do a chemical spray to kill stragglers resulting in a cost and time saving and not damaging the microbiology. Did the roller crimp leave any type of compaction layers? Thanks, Doug
Great videos. Thank you for sharing. We are busy with trails also to see where we end up with yields. After planting with compost extract do you re-apply during the growing season as well?
@@youngredangus6041 great. Last questions. How much compost would you use per acre in furrow? How much compost would you apply later on? Do you find that the seed treatment interfere with the working of the compost extract?
@@wf1000 1 lbs makes 4 gallons. I use that ratio for Bio 5 and for Johnson Su We apply infurrow at 8 gallons an acre When we do seed treatments we do 16 Oz for 50lbs of sorghum
@@wf1000 Foliar we would be 20 gallons an acre Fungicide seed treatment? If that is what you are asking then Yes it has to have some kind of effect but we are still seeing a huge response even with treatment.
@@youngredangus6041 Yes. The corn seed we get in South Africa all come standard with some kind of on-seed Fungicide. I was worried that it may hinder the function of Compost-extract.
Hi jay, just wondering if you can apply the compost extract to already treated seed, or does this defeat the purpose? In our case it would be treated wheat or corn. Thanks
Yes and Yes It does defeat the purpose. The relationship between the seed and the fungi and bacteria is so strong it still had a response. What are you issues? Why treated wheat and why corn? We don’t use seed treatments on wheat anymore. We try to get away from seed treatments on corn but we have been attacked by cut worms. I was told this week that our workshop by Glen Rabenburg that putting out sugars will take care of the cut worms.
@@youngredangus6041 thanks for the reply, we’re in Alberta, Canada so we fight cold soil temps for the first part of the growing season. The wheat is treated for cut worm and fusarium. We haven’t struggled with too many diseases with corn being this far north but the seed comes treated so we’ve just gone with it. Very interesting about the sugars, is that a seed treatment or just in alongside the compost?
Great question no I have not. This winter I’m going to work with Regen Ag Labs to discus our goals and to see what we need to be measuring and looking into for the future.
Ideally you would want it to be above freezing but to be honest with you that is something I don’t know a lot about current I’m planning on top dressing some wheat this spring
Absolutely love your videos! Very informative and I love to learn and push new limits. Question; would it still be beneficial to put in a 2x2 with starter fertilizer 17-13-0-s-z or would there be too many salts and kill off the bio's?
I know there are people who are doing that but I think you would worry about killing some of the biology. Have you thought about reaching out to regen ag labs to do soil samples to see what you actually need?
interesting. alot of farmers go through great lengths to sanitize their seeds. so this is doing the opposite and incoculating the seed with beneficial fungi and bacteria.
all I see that may be wrong for your soil is fact the compost your buying does not have the same live microorganisms in it as your local soil on the farm...do you know how their compost is made, is it made indoors at controlled temperatures or is it made outdoors and at what temperatures? the best compost I think is what you grow on /with your own land under the conditions your crops grow in
I appreciate your feedback John but we have destroyed our soils for years and any biological product that has a lot of fungal spores in it is a good product to me.
You're on the right track - thanks for your efforts.
Im a huge fan of Alaskan Humus soil!
Im always looking forward to your next video post!! Been making bio reactors for little over 3 years I coat all my seeds with it and in furrow plus I coat my cover crop seeds with it as well and it really works any thing I used it on grew healthy and produced amazing crops
John thanks for the feedback and thank you so much for watching each week!
I wish I could make it to your meeting, but I think a neighbor is going. I’ll see if he will share his notes with me.
Great content and intro! Greetings from Germany!
Hey thanks for the encouragement!
Fantastic
Ive tried to contact them before because i would like to buy an extractor. Nobody answered…
But ive just reached out to them again.
Thanks for sharing, god bless ❤
Thanks Omar!
I may have missed it , but how much do you water and how do you do it?
Thanks great videos
Have you considered sowing a multispecies for silage
Are you planning on attending Soil health U in January at Salina?
I like the new intro Bro!
Thanks! I think Brenda did a really good job with that!
Any ideas why my worms are dying in my bioreactor it’s at roughly 55 degrees
no I don’t. Are you on Facebook
Theirs is a great Johnson Su facebook group that you can ask that question to
Any chance that soil seminar can be streamed?
Right now we are planning on putting the videos up individually after the workshop
How much did the bio 5 extractor cost you? I would love to have 1 in Mexico 👍
This is great.. will that event be live streamed by any chance?
I don’t think so but we should have videos sometime after the event
I have two questions.
In one of your videos you used a roller crimp but then had to go back and spray to kill some of the cover crop that did not get fully crimped. Since spraying will kill the microbiology you are trying to establish brings up a question.
My question is, what is the significant difference between using a roller crimp vurses a bush hog to terminate the cover crop?
A bush hog would have terminated the cover crop and there would have been no need to go back to do a chemical spray to kill stragglers resulting in a cost and time saving and not damaging the microbiology.
Did the roller crimp leave any type of compaction layers?
Thanks,
Doug
Does bio 5 test there product for fungal to bacteria ratio
They have but the lab hadn’t gotten back to them when I had made this video
Hi Jay, another good video- what kind money are those bio-reactors?
Cheers
How do you apply nitrogen90 by mixing compost extract?
We apply urea before we plant the corn then when we plant corn we are putting out compost extract
Did you add any biologicals to the trit? UAN?
We added compost extract
@@youngredangus6041 I’d like to topdress native hay
@@southernblues
Watch my interview with Cory Miller from a few weeks ago
Great videos. Thank you for sharing. We are busy with trails also to see where we end up with yields.
After planting with compost extract do you re-apply during the growing season as well?
We will apply foliar application on corn in 2023 or that’s the plan anyway.
We treated wheat seed in 2021 when we drilled then applied a foliar
@@youngredangus6041 great. Last questions.
How much compost would you use per acre in furrow?
How much compost would you apply later on?
Do you find that the seed treatment interfere with the working of the compost extract?
@@wf1000
1 lbs makes 4 gallons. I use that ratio for Bio 5 and for Johnson Su
We apply infurrow at 8 gallons an acre
When we do seed treatments we do 16 Oz for 50lbs of sorghum
@@wf1000
Foliar we would be 20 gallons an acre
Fungicide seed treatment? If that is what you are asking then Yes it has to have some kind of effect but we are still seeing a huge response even with treatment.
@@youngredangus6041 Yes. The corn seed we get in South Africa all come standard with some kind of on-seed Fungicide. I was worried that it may hinder the function of Compost-extract.
Hi jay, just wondering if you can apply the compost extract to already treated seed, or does this defeat the purpose?
In our case it would be treated wheat or corn.
Thanks
Yes and Yes
It does defeat the purpose. The relationship between the seed and the fungi and bacteria is so strong it still had a response.
What are you issues? Why treated wheat and why corn?
We don’t use seed treatments on wheat anymore.
We try to get away from seed treatments on corn but we have been attacked by cut worms. I was told this week that our workshop by Glen Rabenburg that putting out sugars will take care of the cut worms.
@@youngredangus6041 thanks for the reply, we’re in Alberta, Canada so we fight cold soil temps for the first part of the growing season. The wheat is treated for cut worm and fusarium. We haven’t struggled with too many diseases with corn being this far north but the seed comes treated so we’ve just gone with it.
Very interesting about the sugars, is that a seed treatment or just in alongside the compost?
@@lukefranklin6325
Sugar would need to be infurrow when planted
Have you been soil testing to monitor the soil carbon while you have been applying the extract?
Great question
no I have not. This winter I’m going to work with Regen Ag Labs to discus our goals and to see what we need to be measuring and looking into for the future.
How much compost do you apply per acre/per year? Thanks new subscriber
1lbs for 4 gallons
8 gallons in furrow
What's the lowest temperature you can apply extract
Ideally you would want it to be above freezing but to be honest with you that is something I don’t know a lot about current
I’m planning on top dressing some wheat this spring
Absolutely love your videos! Very informative and I love to learn and push new limits. Question; would it still be beneficial to put in a 2x2 with starter fertilizer 17-13-0-s-z or would there be too many salts and kill off the bio's?
I know there are people who are doing that but I think you would worry about killing some of the biology.
Have you thought about reaching out to regen ag labs to do soil samples to see what you actually need?
@@youngredangus6041 good suggestion Jay, ofcourse trial & error is also a method, but testing is ‘learning faster’; great videos btw! Keep m going
interesting. alot of farmers go through great lengths to sanitize their seeds. so this is doing the opposite and incoculating the seed with beneficial fungi and bacteria.
Is there any reason that you prefer using compost extract to compost tea? I love your videos by the way!
Teas have a lot more biology but it’s a lot easier to screwed up. It also goes bad quicker
Thanks Jay
all I see that may be wrong for your soil is fact the compost your buying does not have the same live microorganisms in it as your local soil on the farm...do you know how their compost is made, is it made indoors at controlled temperatures or is it made outdoors and at what temperatures? the best compost I think is what you grow on /with your own land under the conditions your crops grow in
I appreciate your feedback John but we have destroyed our soils for years and any biological product that has a lot of fungal spores in it is a good product to me.
As to your other question I’ll ask Blake and get back to you