silvio berlusconi
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Out of curiosity does anyone run a zero-till organic farm in the UK?
Out of curiosity does anyone run a zero-till organic farm in the UK?
the holy grail !
Is it really though? We'd probably miss artificial N quite significantly at the moment.
Had she any farm scale examples of this working? I think if I had mastered it on our farm I'd be smugly telling the world about it. Does she advise against rotation?im trying to set up a (small !) field to try Dr Ingham's organic zero-till. if I can get the right compost to make it happen plan is to balance biology to her instruction and then grow continuous zero-till wheat, ideally with no chemicals but might have to concede glyphosate (balanced with humic acid when applied)
at ORFC she said 10t/ha was possible..............................
Gabe Brown is almost there in NDakota! Only uses one herb every three years and no N!Out of curiosity does anyone run a zero-till organic farm in the UK?
impossible.im trying to set up a (small !) field to try Dr Ingham's organic zero-till. if I can get the right compost to make it happen plan is to balance biology to her instruction and then grow continuous zero-till wheat, ideally with no chemicals but might have to concede glyphosate (balanced with humic acid when applied)
at ORFC she said 10t/ha was possible..............................
Had she any farm scale examples of this working? I think if I had mastered it on our farm I'd be smugly telling the world about it. Does she advise against rotation?
impossible.
take all will destroy it.
will never be certified.
hoeing is not zero till.
Take all will decline after a few years and allegedly no till helps as no soil movement helps the natural soil component (cant remember what it is ) that suppresses the take allimpossible.
take all will destroy it.
will never be certified.
hoeing is not zero till.
Why does she advise against rotation ? surely that goes against most thinking, although I guess PP does okyes some VERY large scale examples but not in the UK unfortunaelty
yes she does advice against rotation
Why does she advise against rotation ? surely that goes against most thinking, although I guess PP does ok
Will be Interesting to see how it works out, would guess you would have to be pretty careful in the first few years not to apply any chems that would disrupt the good guysit is against most thinking (including my own !) which state greater diversity is the route to soil health
her view is you balance fungi/bacteria ratio and then lift this levels as high as you can via compost and compost teas, you create a soil where the crop (wheat for example) has abundant fungi and bacteria species that it needs for that crop and by mono culture you increase them year on year creating a soil where the conditions are most favourable for that crop and not weeds etc that would in a more conventional unbalanced and diversely cropped soil compete with the cash crop
Will be Interesting to see how it works out, would guess you would have to be pretty careful in the first few years not to apply any chems that would disrupt the good guys