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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 8162173" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>as dairy farmers, we happen to fill a massive hole, every year, with slurry, but l think it is only recently, that l have realised, exactly how potent it is, FYM have used that selectively for years, but slurry sort of, halfway between useful, and a pain in the butt.</p><p>Reading the direct driller mag, 'things' have got me thinking on a different course, [USER=5961]@Henarar[/USER] like us, more grass, for less fert, which is the opposite of expectation.</p><p> But, if we farm to look after our soils, some of ours have now been treated, 'sympathetically' for several years, certainly not ploughed, so, if they have improved in that time, which is probable, then by applying slurry/FYM, you are not so much feeding the plant 'fert', you are feeding the soil, and its bugs etc, it is them that create the correct environment, for legumes to max N, and allow the plant to extend its root system, to max its intake, an ever increasing circle, increasing soil structure, increasing fertility etc. </p><p>Not explaining over well, but if we stop thinking of shite feeding the plant leaf, and look at it from feeding the soil life, and thus creating the better conditions, for the plant, to utilise. Pretty well all the writers in the dd, experienced same/higher yields, which they would, writing for that mag.</p><p>But, it went further than that, some trials were showing a sizable increase, in the nutritional value, of food, v same crops, managed 'conventionally', side by side, on neighbouring farms, didn't see the difference v organic though. To me, it made me think of a circle, where if you get the correct conditions, that circle just keeps growing, improving all the time, which to be fair, is what we are seeing, without realising the reasons.</p><p>Now, next year will be different again, and prove the above, is a load of bullpoo, l certainly hope not !!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 8162173, member: 86168"] as dairy farmers, we happen to fill a massive hole, every year, with slurry, but l think it is only recently, that l have realised, exactly how potent it is, FYM have used that selectively for years, but slurry sort of, halfway between useful, and a pain in the butt. Reading the direct driller mag, 'things' have got me thinking on a different course, [USER=5961]@Henarar[/USER] like us, more grass, for less fert, which is the opposite of expectation. But, if we farm to look after our soils, some of ours have now been treated, 'sympathetically' for several years, certainly not ploughed, so, if they have improved in that time, which is probable, then by applying slurry/FYM, you are not so much feeding the plant 'fert', you are feeding the soil, and its bugs etc, it is them that create the correct environment, for legumes to max N, and allow the plant to extend its root system, to max its intake, an ever increasing circle, increasing soil structure, increasing fertility etc. Not explaining over well, but if we stop thinking of shite feeding the plant leaf, and look at it from feeding the soil life, and thus creating the better conditions, for the plant, to utilise. Pretty well all the writers in the dd, experienced same/higher yields, which they would, writing for that mag. But, it went further than that, some trials were showing a sizable increase, in the nutritional value, of food, v same crops, managed 'conventionally', side by side, on neighbouring farms, didn't see the difference v organic though. To me, it made me think of a circle, where if you get the correct conditions, that circle just keeps growing, improving all the time, which to be fair, is what we are seeing, without realising the reasons. Now, next year will be different again, and prove the above, is a load of bullpoo, l certainly hope not !! [/QUOTE]
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