Thanks Alec!

Thanks

Thanks he is doing much better

Awesome that you said that He had surgery last week and his eye sight has been restored

That’s encouraging! A lot of the corn around Garden city looks kind of rough

Thanks man It’s all Eric Goodell

Thanks Mike!

That’s Awesome Shaun! Where is your farm?

@@youngredangus6041 southern Ontario. Little more than a hobby farm so far but it's perfect for experimenting as I don't rely entirely on it for income.

@@shaungiesbrecht4697 That’s great! Everyone starts from small beginnings

Thanks

Thanks for that encouragement Craig!

Are you farming and using Regenerative principles?

@@youngredangus6041 I wish. I'm a pure nerd, watching from the sidelines.

@@youngredangus6041 My pastor taught me the importance of this, by example. "Hi I'm Mark and I'm one of the pastors here, and here's what we're talking about today." He always spoke with the new guy in mind, and what's fascinating is how NOT boring that was, for the rest of us.

Thanks for the encouragement!

Yeah I’m looking at keeping one field tilled and another field no-till with covers on Dry Land to try to show the difference

Thanks for the encouragement. Are you going to be at the bottom line conference?

@@youngredangus6041 All depends on moisture and irrigation. Hope to make it!

@@lancefeikert It would be good to see you. It’s been awhile

Amen to that!

Thanks

@@youngredangus6041 I watching all this with amazement and it makes so much sense

Well we usually don’t have to worry about harvesting when it’s wet.

Thanks Kai!

Lol. Glad you like it!

Good question and it is tough to answer. 1 it’s hard for people to change 2 if no one in your community is doing it people don’t want to stand out 3 if you are the only one doing it in your community it is challenging because you don’t know what will work and what doesn’t. What I learn from someone at a conference may or may not work here.

How is everything in the UK?

@@youngredangus6041 Dry. Not like you guys. But dry for us. Esp out East. So your video is very topical.

Would really like to get an updated thought on application rates for Johnson. Su to seed. What amount of raw material pet tonne of seed, in roughly what amount of water. Thanks if you can 😎

@@nielscorfield4163 Yeah I’ll try to get a video on that. We applied compost extract in furrow on corn at 8 gallons an acre and we used 2lbs of compost for every 8 gallons. For seed treatment it really is something you will have to figure out as you go.

620-376-8593 Shoot me a text

You can also email me youngredangus@gmail.com

In a system where you are putting in living roots in the ground year round, not tilling the ground, adding biology with from Johnson Sue and using cover crops most definitely produces crops that are more nutrient dense. It’s not just notil you have to be doing the whole system.

A lot of Kansas farmers are going back to full tillage because the high price of chemicals to spray weeds

www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2021.699147/full. Here is an article that backs up what I’m talking about with multiple research sited in the article

Exactly which nutrients are more concentrated in crops grown in fields where cover crops & no till are used? Don’t get me wrong - I 100% agree with cover crops & notill where we can bc it is much better for soil health & water infiltration & availability of both micro & macro nutrients. This higher availability does not make the following grain crop “more nutrient dense”. In addition, problems like slugs & seedling diseases often reduce yields - and yields are what pays the bills. When non-farmers read such blanket statements about “higher nutrition or more nutrient dense” - they automatically begin criticizing we farmers who, for valid reasons, may choose to work ground & use more traditional practices. I had a new rental farm owner tell me he was learning farming from the internet (after all, anyone can be a farmer bc you don’t have to be that smart) & he forbid me to use roundup, all NPK, wouldn’t allow any manure bc of potential ground water contamination, no gmo traited seeds… and was going to increase my rental rate to $250/acre from $150 bc farmers are getting rich on high grain prices. And then he told me I needed to look into purchasing electric powered farm equipment bc I was causing climate change. And this guy drives 2 hours each way to golf 3x per week while he works at home on his computer.

Hank did you read the article? A plant gets micronutrients from mycorrhiza fungi bringing it all the micronutrients it needs. A plant attracts fungi to bring it what it needs by exudates and by sending out signals in the soil. In a traditional system with tillage you kill fungi. If there isn’t any fungi in the soil a plant will only be able to absorb the micronutrients that are in contact with its roots making it nearly impossible to raise a crop without synthetic fertilizer. Multiple studies show when you add synthetic phos it hinders root growth and the ability of a plant to put out exudates. You can see that in the video I posted about raising 200 bushel corn with no Nitrogen and No phos and in the video “making compost extract with bio 5 extractor.” (I think it’s in both Maybe just one) So if you don’t have exudates a plant will only take up the Nitrogen and phos that is applied synthetically. So the plant has Phosphorus, Nitrogen and Potassium but is deficient in almost every other micronutrients The compost we applied with Johnson Su extract contained 675 species of fungi and bacteria. 87% of those species made made inorganic nitrogen plant available. All of the micronutrients we made more available to the pant by the bacteria and fungi in the compost. When we do no-till with cover crops and diversity of species we increase the levels of the bacteria and fungi in our fields naturally. I use compost extract because it brings back quickly It’s the increase of the biology through doing all of the practices that I stated above that increase nutrient density(including notil).