Thank you Jay! I appreciate your honesty, candor and effort. I believe farmers can save our climate and reform our food system. Lots of respect here!

Thank you Jay for sharing!! Thank you for taking this on and starting your journey down this path. We need you and all the farmers we can to join you. Thanks Again 🙏👍

Great video Jay! You did a good job of explaining everything for the viewer. Keep it up!

this process is so great to hear about. Soil health is key to feeding people. Thank you

Keep the vidge coming this is so crucial to our soil

Great stuff mate. Thanks for sharing.

I can’t wait to try this on our vegetable crops next year

I love your operation!

This is so great to see on a large scale. I'm a living soil Cannabis grower and I'm really hoping the Agri-Business model can move towards these types of microbial applications.

John talks about running the solution through a cyclone for 20-30 minutes for aeration. I’m guessing these are mounted on the tops of the large cone bottom tanks? Is it possible to get an image of this cyclone, or maybe a brand or part #? I will be trying this next spring with some bio5 compost and just started making some tote units to have my own compost for the 2024 growing season. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos. - Joe

Home gardener from Germany here. Found this video very interesting, thank you!

The future of framing for sure and needs to be shown how it will work on a bigger scale to show you can feed the world Organically

Super video thanks for sharing. We are also on your soil health path.

Sorry for anyone who hasn’t been able to ask questions. I didn’t realize the comments were off when I first posted.

I just subscribed, keep us informed really interested in this, Great video and narration.

Very interesting. Thanks for posting this. I'm guessing with a farm of that size, it's not practical to try to lay some kind of mulch is it?

Jay, I've been watching all your videos on extract. They're so helpful as I'm working to set up an extract system for a 3-rd generation organic dairy farm here in Wisconsin gratis. The first year we'll have to be working out of totes as money is really tight, but I'm hoping we could implement something similar to what John is doing along with building Johnson Su totes as you've described. I don't know if you have answers to any of these questions but this is what I was wondering as I imagined building a extractor like John's. 1. What is the red fitting on top of the tank where the extract enters the top of the tank? Does the red fitting introduce air into the extract stream as it enters the tank at the top? 2. Does the extract entering the tank at the top take a 90-degree turn so it’s going horizontally around the top rim of the tank to create a large vortex in the tank? 3. If there is a large vortex in the tank, what is the flow rate of the pump? 4. What mesh screen is used in the filter? 5. Did John have to make any modifications required on the planter to prevent plugging of the lines with extract? Again, super helpful information because you're showing how to make extract work on a farm scale! By the way, regarding your Johnson Su trials, I've watched other videos particularly of aerated static compost piles. They also run about a 70% moisture content. The general way to test if its too wet is to squeeze a handful. No more than a drop or so should come out even when squeezing hard. On the flip side testing for dryness, even course wood chips (assuming its been mixed with other materials) should clump together enough to more-or-less remain in a ball. I saw water dripping out of your hand on at least one sample and this is way too wet. Also, they talk about the importance of "bulk density" as it relates to "free air space" which is important so the pile can breath.. Bulk density should be between 550-950 lbs/cu.yd.- 20-35 lbs/cu.ft. Since a 5-gallon bucket is 0.67 cu.ft., a 5-gallon bucket should weigh between 14-24 pounds. To do this, fill the bucket half way and tampi it down by hand, 2/3rds and tamp, full and tamp, and then topping it off. Finish by weighing the bucket. Another way to measure "free air space" is by filling a 5-gallon bucket as described. Next, fill the bucket filled with material with water. The water will fill up all the air spaces. Next, subtract the weight of the bucket with material only from the bucket with material and water. Next, divide the water weight by 62.43 to get the volume of air in the bucket (62.43 lbs. water = 1cu.ft.). Finish by dividing the volume of air in cu.ft. by 0.67 to get the percent of the bucket that is “free air space”. The percent of free air space should be between 35-60%.

Nice ! What's the compost/water ratio for the extraction ? Thanks !

Awesome work dude 🤠🤓

Would it be feasible to run the solution through hose that is pulled from a reel onto the feild by the tractor? It would avoid carrying the heavy weight over the soil

Hi Jay Thanks for making these clips! I'm right at the start of making the bio-reactor, aiming to reduce compaction on hay meadows via an aerator/dribble set up initially. This may be obvious but how did you get the compost out of the reactor once the process was complete? Thanks again.

How many gallons/acre did he use in furrow with the crustbuster drill?

I am going to be doing this to feed my 1600 foot greenhouse, Thanks for the info, this should reduce my costs quite a bit, and help me produce a better product. Thanks!

Is he using spray nozzles or stream nozzles when applying to his wheat?

How is your mate John measuring his soil carbon?

I learned about Johnson Su bioreactor about 4 months ago, and that led me down a road learning about carbon sequestration. Im approaching from a home owners perspective, and love seeing this on the ag scale. Are you aware of anyone monitoring carbon levels while doing this? Im just a 1/4 acre in Western Washington, and Im going to be spraying everything on my property to see how it fares. Id much rather help the soil and plants than spray and remediate with synthetics that could be killing beneficial microbes. Looking forward to following along as you learn new things. 👍

Whats the shelf life for the brew/finish product? I'll be doing this on a much smaller scale

Keep up the good work. How long are seeds drenched in extract? Are seeds dried before seeding or seeded wet right after drenching?

Hi Jay. Any knowledge on how the bio reactor behaves in colder climates? Say January - February temperatures of -20 C to -30 C. Perhaps the cold weather just slows down the process and doesn't kill it...

Hello, Fellow Farmer! I am looking for a link for the sprayer you have attached to your water truck. It was from New Zealand I believe? Thank you for your help! I have invested in the Bio5 and want to be able to apply via our water truck. Thank you for your time!

How many # of compost would I need to produce compost tea (extract) for 450 acres? I have horses in stalls and was thinking the manure and hay/bedding would make a good compost.

Hi Jay, great video. What's the spec on the microscope he uses?

What's your opinion on inoculating walnut/hazelnut seedlings before transplanting them into orchard?? And keep up with good work, you're giving us all some real value with your videos.. Good luck and health!!

Do you think spraying this kind of compost tea over the top a hay field prove beneficial for the health of the soil in the field and for the hay yields one can expect?

So just thinking you could get away with never adding N if you add N fixing plants but when do you know that it's time to add P?

Where did he get the small tank with the stainless screen?

So can I assume that the purpose of having livestock on a farm like yours is to pay for the nitrogen fixing cover crop and also to eat the corn stalks after harvest?

Where do you get those systems or do you make them yourself or something like that to where you can break down your topsoil and be able to put on your your garden or your field or whatever you know you might be planting or is there some show that shows you how to make this thing I mean cuz it's great to sit here and talk about it and all that stuff but if if you're not showing people how to make it then how are people going to take advantage of this situation which I'm thinking is not about making money as much as it is about soil health then again maybe it is about making money I don't know

Do you have a large increase in Fungi on the farm?

Cant save this