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It depends. And this is where the complexity of the method starts to show. It basically depends on what your starting soil organism biomass is and what your target is, based on what you want to grow. This is all easier to achieve if you're not rotating. As then you don't have to keep reammending...

Don't think compost vols will be an issue Arables can make it from straw and green crop, windrowed at a field margin

Why would be a problem? Just means same field permanent out of grass. Did you see the grass section of the examples presentation I posted? There's some pages on PP there.

Generally speaking, don't. Don't rotate keep it as PP and have dedicated fields for cropping. That's the implication anyway.

Here's a link for some info, not read it closely but plenty of detail http://www.theearthproject.org/id64.html

Great. Looking forward to seeing it (even if it don't look like much at the mo). BG is a pretty big deal. You could probably sell the method on this one effect alone, as long as it can be repeated ;-)

A lot of germination is due to residual nitrates in the soil. Both from inorganic applications and manures. So, from memory, in this case it's a question of increasing the bacteria biomass to mop this up and then adjusting to suit the actual crop. This example is based on the understanding that...

The crimper is effective at killing senescent cover crops like particulalry cereal. The hollow stem is especially succeptible to crimping. A disengaged flail mower can be used as a roller/crimper. Others are not so succesful. Ron Morse details here: The rolled cover crop is effective at...

Reckon diaphrgm pumps are the best option, unless a pressure vessel is possible. Pressure controlled air pump and cone tank? Will need to screen the tea/extract beforehand.

Depends on the situation. It may be a nutrient cycling issue that's being referred to in the 3 days example. In which case it might be protozoa that the soil is being innoculated with. In this case reproduction rates are fast, not as fast as bacteria but in line with them. One abstract I just...

pretty sure she did, briefly. Actually there's a section on it in the presentation, which I can extract (the whole PDF is a bit big). Good data on Ca leaching comparative trial. Fungi holds it all, when introduced into a sterile medium. but what did you want to know about specifically? can check...

Prob not. But she does contribute to the Compost Tea group on Yahoo quite a lot. Cross posting would be poss. Also, lot's of tea brewers and scope dudes on there too.

This is what Gabe Brown is doing, DD, in North Dakota. Some impressive stats. Yield, SOM, inputs. All better with grazing.