Tim Ashley

@cutlerstom No leave it, don’t top up. Monitor moisture, temperature (and smell)

Pipes out to increase air flow through the compost. Still plenty of heat so no worms added yet. Already lost about a foot of depth. Should I have topped it up before I removed the pipes? #johnsonsu

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@cutlerstom @FarmerRobin @ArableSam Hear your pain. As with direct drilling etc . Context is everything. What’s the SOM, your clay%. When we introduce a new ‘loop’ into the system we need to be vigilant and learn especially from negative feedback. Do not throw the baby out and all that.

@FarmerRobin @ArableSam Funny how everyone I speak to has come to this conclusion. Yet all the funders of “Regen Ag” who employ theses keen young advisors seem to think grazing livestock is the answer to every agronomic question!

Worms have been busy. But the sheep have left this field ex cover crop very wet ontop, which is not the result I was hoping for.

@cutlerstom @ukeastcoast Even in conventional systems it takes years to ‘run-down’ the P Index so unless your soil is really low AND your adopting more biological systems then probably not really.

@AgronomistTim @ukeastcoast Tim, does that mean the biology is tapping into the “total” phosphorus reserves in the soil, whereas we are usually measuring and topping up the “available” phosphorus? Presumably both will need topping up at some point in time depending on initial amounts?

Early signs look promising. Of course I need to do more comparisons, but a bit of shovelomics on this trial is showing some differences. Top 5 plants untreated Bottom 5 Johnson-Su compost tea at sowing…….

@cutlerstom @ukeastcoast To your first question yes and the plant being healthy will start to divert more energy to feeding / trading with biology. to your second the ‘available’ that we can use is only about 1-3% of total P! .

@ukeastcoast @cutlerstom Biology is accessing existing otherwise “chemically unavailable” nutrients (mainly phosphorus) - regen doesn’t deplete per se you’re just tapping into a new system.

@cutlerstom If it’s soil nutrient then improved “mining” still needs replacing?? Otherwise “regen” is actually just depleting??

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Wait… fungicides can decrease yields you say? 🎯🎯😉😄

@OliFletcher @cutlerstom @Groundswellaguk @IntegratedSoils Only "stuck my head into a couple" then you can hardly give a objective review on Groundswell - some of your comments raised valid points but most where based on ignorance and there you where perfectly placed to gain a bit more understanding!

@cutlerstom @Groundswellaguk @IntegratedSoils Point taken - the farmers I spoke too saw the value in the seminars. I stuck my head into a couple but they weren't all strictly agricultural. Talk of natural capital and such doesn't really appeal to me

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I would suggest higher air circulation in the IBC, as @RBoldan suggests. Oxygen will be your limiting factor and especially if you add any food like molasses. You ideally need a rolling boil where the surface starts to break but doesn't splash everywhere. If oxygen is limited below 6ppm (6mg/L) you'll start to select for facultative biology, which is not disastrous but not ideal but if you start going below 4ppm thats when oxygen is low and only anaerobes will flourish as only their enzymes function = smelly.

@cutlerstom @Nick_Wilson3 @anthonybecvar I think you need to bubble some air through it. @AgronomistTim is my go to for all things biological

Johnson-Su compost extraction. I’ve put about 20kgs of Johnson-Su compost into some terram and made a tea bag out of it. Now circulating water around to wash the goodies out. 1st time doing this so any help/pointers gratefully received….

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In a year like this, the better agronomic bet may be to skip or reduce fungicides and instead invest in drought-tolerance and stress resilience via biostimulants. That’s not anti-fungicide — it’s context-driven agronomy. And it’s what systems thinking is all about.

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