I have more than 2 million earthworms an ha!

[Acke]

The University of Agriculture do some counting of earthworms on different farms and cultivation systems. It was 2018 during drough . We is DD with a ULD drill since 2013 . Now we get the numbers of how many eartworms we have an/ha and we have~ 2,25 million an ha on one field. It was the top record under this counting . We have no covercrops , just copped straw and Chaff. How many eartworms do you have?

 

[SteveE]

That is a few worms I must say.

 

[benny6910]

How do they work that figure out? Just wondering as when I have been digging in my stubbles this winter with a spade nearly all the times I’ve dug in I’ve seen 2-3 worms in each spade full. Is this below average or above?

 

[Acke]

They dig 1m in square in 4 different spot on field ! Do not know how deep they dig!
In my neck of the woods average population is 100000 to1mil ! On non stock farms.
Im not sure how much you have , depends how deep you dig and how wide spade you have?

 

[martian]

We've been finding an average of 20 worms per spadeful...25 spades per sq meter makes 500/sq m...multiply by 10,000 = 5 million/ha. That is a lot of free workers!

 

[Acke]

We've been finding an average of 20 worms per spadeful...25 spades per sq meter makes 500/sq m...multiply by 10,000 = 5 million/ha. That is a lot of free workers!

It is 5000kg/ ha of worms

 

[benny6910]

They dig 1m in square in 4 different spot on field ! Do not know how deep they dig!
In my neck of the woods average population is 100000 to1mil ! On non stock farms.
Im not sure how much you have , depends how deep you dig and how wide spade you have?

ok thanks for that, I haven’t properly been looking for worms but I may have to do some proper digs and counts.