Today’s Episode we reveal the results from our corn test plots.
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A question from NZ are you talking Nitrogen mass as the element or the oxide as seems to be the custom in the US. Like wise for P and K
I have been waiting for this episode! Kudos to you for embracing the risk and going for it with your farm. You're paving the way for others to follow.
Jay Young loves 3 things – Jesus Christ, his family, and regenerative agriculture 💪🏻🙌🏻👍🏻
I've been planting comfrey for years and use it as a liquid fertilizer for all my plants as well as a top mulch. Even in Alaska it grows like crazy. I've had people buy it from I think most of the states now. I sell comfrey root and seed almost daily.
Is this corn all gmo corn?
Have you tried conventional corn vs gmo corn?
The reason I ask is in one of advancing eco agriculture videos on insects and what they look for the presenter mentioned that you can't spend enough money to get your plant healthy enough to fight off bugs with gmo corn. He made it sound like the gmo corn had something missing to keep it healthy.
I farm organically and never have treated seed and I really haven't seen an issue, but I also till… so maybe I break up the life cycle. Maybe you could try strip till. And see if that helped.
I have nothing against no till and I know how passionate you are about it. Just a farmer enjoying your videos and giving my 2 cents. (I seem to think that if you ask enough people about the problems that you have in the field that someone will have the exact answer that your looking for, and they figured it out 20 years ago.)
Not a farmer. Loved your video about nitrogen myth and others. Hopefully more people will come towards no till farming with bio su Most important would be more availability of micronutrients. On a side note you look like Jeremy piven.
You are walking the right path my friend! Wow! Keep scratching at it. The world needs more of your perspective! I so appreciate your enthusiasm and willingness to take a risk. Thank you for putting it out there. Keep on shouting!
Wow, what an undertaking. Would be great if you could show a satellite or drone shot of your farm. I'm not sure everyone realises the scale your on.
Hi. I am a farmer and I live in a one of those [bad]hole countries as pres Trump called them (and he wasn't completely wrong). So anyway, I have spent 2022 learning about things like lactic acid bacteria and how to find mycorhizzal fungi from nature and add them to compost. Previously I have been growing mushrooms so I know about composting and empowering the desired microbes by pasteurization etc., and why thats needed. So this year I have begun shifting to the no-till fungal soil thing. Pushed by economical crisis and because of people reaching new heights in greed, cutting profit margins for farmers unacceptably. The purpose of my post is to request material and/or guidance about finding the right kinds of innoculations for a compost pile. Should I mix both lactic acid bacteria and natural soils with white mycelia in them into a pile? Or how? My fields are ready to accept these cultures I believe because after harvesting corn and then rice I used machinery to chop all dried residue of the crops back into the soil. Thank you and God bless you.
Totally random. Is the intro music by Eric Goodell from Shenandoah Iowa, now in Omaha?
Thanks, Jay. Looking forward to meeting you in person in Greeley at the end of this month. I too, took the deep dive to understand the "why" behind the "how." We're trying to do the same thing as you, but with perennial, high elevation pastures. We'll get there.
I really enjoy learning about regenerative ag. I get that tillage folks have had tillage preached to them for generations but when your soils can’t infiltrate the rain God provides and it runs away taking some of the poor soil with it. Just not writing big checks for input should get some interest. Gabe Brown from N.Dak says producers should strive to sign the BACK of checks not the FRONT. Delighted and honored to have found your channel. Small town kid stuck in Omaha Nebraska
So being a notill farmer since 1992…
This sounds familiar
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Great video! I’ve also been pondering the impact of seed treatment on my corn seed. Was the non-treated seed you used still gmo just untreated or non-gmo? I thought I’d try out some untreated gmo corn to see if there is an impact. You might consider a video discussing your crop rotation on these circles. Great progress!
Jay are you putting out 8 gallons at one time? 1 lb of compost per gallon? Maybe I heard wrong….
Please note this is the first video of yours that I have watched. I am a Canadian farm girl with some interest in soil science and science, while I haven’t heard of th “Johnson” compost I have heard of compost
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I’m sure you’ve answered it a million times but what if your all no till
I’m sure you’ve answered it a million times but what if your all no till
Farmer from Manitoba Canada. Just finished watching all of your videos on Johnson Su composting.
I have some thoughts on the matter.
I think the fact you are on irrigation is a big factor in why this is working so well for you. If you think about it, it's the same concept of how you have to water your bioreactors everyday. These bacteria and fungi need water to survive. I would be interested if you know of any farmers having this kind of success with compost extract in dryland farming.
I understand you aren't a research farm, but usually in a trial you want a baseline check strip. I think you should do a strip of no N or P and no compost extract to see if A) Irrigation is such a big factor it is the main reason for your big yields, and B) To see if you are getting some residual action from your compost extract applied in previous years.
Interesting to hear you are getting such low yields with no seed treatment. Do you specifically think this is from insect pests or do you think soil diseases also play a factor?
Also, I'm wondering about your crop rotation. Are these irrigated plots corn every year? This could have something to do with your insect problems.
Do test strips with Heirloom open pollinated corn varieties as well as several different hybrids you've used and liked. I used Reids Yellow Dent and Goliath White Dent this year while adding Blue Hopi next year and maybe one other. I know a hog farmer who switched to feeding heirloom corn saw litter size jump up 20% as well as general health improvement. I also heard that the deer tend to avoid recent GMOs because it tastes bad, perhaps cows may like heirloom better too.
If it’s such a miracle grow, why is it not available to purchaser as a seed treatment?
Call me in 15 years after no fertilizer and let me know what your yields are
Would potting soil work while waiting for the compost to get done?
plants still need phosphorus . But you are now managing it in a different way . By "eliminate" did you mean not applying phos directly to the fields in dry form? How about if we take commercially available NPK and compost that with straw first and then after several months apply that whole works to the filed in semi dry form? That is what I am experimenting with but I have no results yet.
Wow …very intresting
You are an inspiration!
Their are many benefits to “conventional” farming mixed with regenerative methods to lower inputs.
We’re on the organic no till side. Their is a market here, but not for everyone to do it. Although I will hotly contest any claim that it can’t feed the world.
Hi!
I am a farmer from Estonia, we grow wheat, rapeseed, broad beans and peas on 900ha( ~2250acres).
Thanks to your videos I came to this kind of technology, thank you very much for that.
I did 2 bioreactors as yours, and used wheat straw 50% and leaves 50% for one and for the other wheat straw 30%, horse manure-wheat straw combo 30% and 40% leaves.
I wanted to ask have you used compost tea for inoculating your wheat seed. How were your results there?
Stay strong and keep getting better!
But your irrigating! In the rest of KS that most farmers depend on rain,when its a rainy year the corn is 14 ft tall,but when less rain the corn is appropriate for rainfall. Im not gonna preach about irrigation in a dry area lol . Corn needs lots of water
Its called residue…Ask a chemist, he will explain how years of cancer causing chemicals in the soil bring this about for years after use…
Jay Young im gonna get alot of hate for this comment . if you pull year after year big yeilds 200 bu to the acre 11,200 lbs of nutrients and the top 6 inches of soil on an acre weighs 2,000,000 lbs if you dont add anything your going to deplete your soil .explain your solution for this im trying to learn
And if possible if you could do a episode showing your soil samples year to year just so you know i raise cow calf pairs and run a feedlot i have fields where i do not apply any commercial fertilizer but i apply 4 to 6 ton to the acre of bedding pack manure
My first time on this channel. Farming on both sides of my family (eastern and western Canada), though I only spent teenage years working on a farm. Then studied agriculture and food processing at Guelph, Ontario and entered the dairy industry. A decade later I became an ordained minister. Now in retirement this whole idea of regenerative agriculture is I believe the only way we will have healthy soil in to the future. The use of compost is an exciting way to lower the use of chemical fertilizer which reduces the amount of nitrous oxide released in to the atmosphere, therefore contributing less to global warming. Thanks for your important efforts and spreading the word. God bless!
Great information.
Can you generate these fungi in composted manure with bedding which is applied in the spring?
There are fungicides that beneficial fungi are not affected, this information was provided by a microbiologist I was working around, maybe Christine Jones will have the same info.
You might check out AEA John kempf's blog if you have not.
Good video BTW