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Download PDF From the AD unit to the soils, every operation for one Oxon grower revolves around ensuring there’s a thriving community of micro-organisms working hard to produce goodness in a low carbon system. CPM explores. By Tom Allen-Stevens At the back of the spray shed there are three IBCs. In one there’s a heater element, the next has an agitator while the third contains fermented molasses, fulvic and humic acid. “We’re dosing the soil,” explains James Taylor. “What’s clear to me is that every time we make a pass with the sprayer, we deplete the soil biology. So we brew up replacement microbes from a concentrate that are added to the spray tank. This batch will go in the glyphosate I’ll be applying to the cover crops.” It’s not just in the fields where there’s a focus on biological activity. Across the yard from the spray shed is Taylor Farms’ 500kW anaerobic digester. Brought into service in October 2014, it’s fed a diet of maize and rye silage as well as chicken manure, with fresh grass brought straight in from the fields during the spring and summer months. “Some people ensile their grass, but my digester likes it lush…
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