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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="JohnGalway" data-source="post: 7282633" data-attributes="member: 204"><p>I have been catching up on the Biofarm2020 recordings bit by bit as I can. Kind of cheated on my work day this morning and decided to take an hour out to watch John Kempfs presentation. </p><p></p><p>What few working brain cells left have been blown away.</p><p></p><p>The gist of it was increasing photosynthetic efficiency by applying foliar sprays to basically any green growing plant - so forages, fruits, cereals etc.</p><p></p><p>The biggest thing for my ground is poor, and poorly managed as yet, forages obviously. So he started talking about say grass with a brix level of 3. He wasn't keen on refractometers for many reasons - lack of peoples experience with the instrument, and many variables such as time of day, sunshine levels, season etc. </p><p></p><p>So a question gets asked about how often one might have to spray a foliar application to increase the photosynthetic efficiency (before I forget, all this was to kick start the soil biology by basically turbo charging root exudates). This IS variable depending on what your start situation is, but on forages he mentioned like once every eight to ten weeks which I think is great. So you apply the correctly formulated foliar spray which kicks your brix of 3 up to say a brix of 12 pretty much over night, then it may (depending on our variables) drop back over a number of weeks BUT the interesting thing is it may drop back to 5, not the original 3.</p><p></p><p>So you go again with your foliar spray and brix goes to 15, and drops back over a number of weeks to maybe 7. There's more to it than this but because of the biology your baseline will become self sustaining so it's not like there's endless foliar applications.</p><p></p><p>This sounds significantly more practical for my ground at least due to the terrain and the difficulty and dangers of applying a lot of liquid in spray form. Kempf reckoned he's working with in the region of 1000 - 1200 farmers on a few million acres, and that this is working for them.</p><p></p><p>Just to plug it again - but tickets are still available for purchase for the Biofarm2020 recordings €50 inside Ireland, €80 outside Ireland I believe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JohnGalway, post: 7282633, member: 204"] I have been catching up on the Biofarm2020 recordings bit by bit as I can. Kind of cheated on my work day this morning and decided to take an hour out to watch John Kempfs presentation. What few working brain cells left have been blown away. The gist of it was increasing photosynthetic efficiency by applying foliar sprays to basically any green growing plant - so forages, fruits, cereals etc. The biggest thing for my ground is poor, and poorly managed as yet, forages obviously. So he started talking about say grass with a brix level of 3. He wasn't keen on refractometers for many reasons - lack of peoples experience with the instrument, and many variables such as time of day, sunshine levels, season etc. So a question gets asked about how often one might have to spray a foliar application to increase the photosynthetic efficiency (before I forget, all this was to kick start the soil biology by basically turbo charging root exudates). This IS variable depending on what your start situation is, but on forages he mentioned like once every eight to ten weeks which I think is great. So you apply the correctly formulated foliar spray which kicks your brix of 3 up to say a brix of 12 pretty much over night, then it may (depending on our variables) drop back over a number of weeks BUT the interesting thing is it may drop back to 5, not the original 3. So you go again with your foliar spray and brix goes to 15, and drops back over a number of weeks to maybe 7. There's more to it than this but because of the biology your baseline will become self sustaining so it's not like there's endless foliar applications. This sounds significantly more practical for my ground at least due to the terrain and the difficulty and dangers of applying a lot of liquid in spray form. Kempf reckoned he's working with in the region of 1000 - 1200 farmers on a few million acres, and that this is working for them. Just to plug it again - but tickets are still available for purchase for the Biofarm2020 recordings €50 inside Ireland, €80 outside Ireland I believe. [/QUOTE]
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