Recent content by alexplatt

If I'm understanding correctly, you're referring to the effects of pulling seaweed/kelp that can store carbon out of the ground, thus preventing it from storing carbon? Thus promoting climate change? Very understandable concern. We only use dead kelp that has washed up on the beach. We have a...

Thanks @Ffermer Bach - will check it out

thanks @Treg and @Kiwi Pete for the inclusion here. Will read up

Very informative thanks @Longlowdog - it's great to hear of the mindset that more farmers are adopting a more environmentally friendly way of doing things. We are slightly behind that curve here in SA but it's happening slowly but surely. It sounds like seaweed/kelp and molasses are some of the...

Thanks @Treg . Haha - that's what I'm trying to find out. Good feedback thanks. Where I see the value for the farmers is the cost of the product being very affordable and easy to apply. But maybe I'm wrong. It certainly makes more sense using the manure and adding the necessary missing elements...

That's great advice @Yale - thanks. We have a couple of dairy farm connections on which we are going to do some trials. The growing season is certainly upon us.

That is correct.(y)

Thanks for the chirp @upnortheast - as you can probably gather from my "CV" is that I don't get my feet dirty every day but it's not always as easy as arriving on a strangers' farm and start asking questions. I do try and meet with farmers as regularly as possible to understand their operations...

Thanks @Anymulewilldo - very interesting. I'm trying to understand to what extent farmers do budget on products for their pastures. We have organic materials which can be diluted and sprayed which work out to be very cost-effective in their raw form and that stimulate soil's microbial activity...

Thanks, @Longlowdog - I appreciate the straightforward words. I'm not going to pretend I know a lot about farming or a lot about farming products. I joined our family business around 4 months ago which my father started 20+ years ago. So I'm still learning about the industry and what the...

Thank you - I see my original question may not have been descriptive enough. I was simply trying to understand if pastoral farmers feed the grass that their livestock grazes and if they do, with what. The reason I ask the question: We have organic raw materials which stimulate microbial...

Fantastic

So farmers that don't till should have a decent presence of mycorrhizal fungi? Thanks for sharing.

Thanks "Dry Rot". I see this is not a great place to get constructive responses or generate helpful answers. You don't know anything about me or our business so I don't think your comment is fair. I also don't know where you got the impression that we don't understand how soils and plant...

How do you feed them?