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Regenerative Agriculture and Direct Drilling
Regen Ag Crops & Agronomy
Dr Christine Jones
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<blockquote data-quote="martian" data-source="post: 7461673" data-attributes="member: 801"><p>My understanding is that plants exude up to 70% of the sugars etc that they make via photosynthesis directly and deliberately into the soil. Most of this food is taken up by bacteria and fungi (mostly AMF, or mycorrhizae) who go on to feed the plant with phosphates and other nutrients, as well as water, in a happy symbiotic exchange. This is the liquid carbon pathway that Christine talks about, it supercharges the soil food web, by feeding the creatures at the bottom of the pile and the glomalin that AMF create is the stable base material of humus.</p><p></p><p>This is why we want living roots in our soil for as much of the time as possible. It's been really noticeable here this year where we've had a couple of fields we sprayed off in the autumn ready for drilling which never took place as the rain beat us to it. The soil is sad and flat compared to where we have a decent cover crop, even where there's a coat of chopped straw.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="martian, post: 7461673, member: 801"] My understanding is that plants exude up to 70% of the sugars etc that they make via photosynthesis directly and deliberately into the soil. Most of this food is taken up by bacteria and fungi (mostly AMF, or mycorrhizae) who go on to feed the plant with phosphates and other nutrients, as well as water, in a happy symbiotic exchange. This is the liquid carbon pathway that Christine talks about, it supercharges the soil food web, by feeding the creatures at the bottom of the pile and the glomalin that AMF create is the stable base material of humus. This is why we want living roots in our soil for as much of the time as possible. It's been really noticeable here this year where we've had a couple of fields we sprayed off in the autumn ready for drilling which never took place as the rain beat us to it. The soil is sad and flat compared to where we have a decent cover crop, even where there's a coat of chopped straw. [/QUOTE]
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