- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
If you don't ask, you don't get!
Worth a try
...and most of the time asking gets you nowhere
If you don't ask, you don't get!
Worth a try
Haha, thanks Kiwi Pete. I haven't finished pimping this one yet. Hopefully I'll do a couple mods and add liquid fert to the drill before next year. I want to be able to put down liquid humates, kelp, fish and calcium. I'm excited to see what performs well and whether the proportions are adequate. My agronomist helped me put it together so hopefully it will be on point. Cheers.Looks bloody good.
When are you going to make another drill and give me your old one?
It is going to be a serious cover crop, will be waiting in anticipation to see which does what, especially the turnip/radish combo cheers good work
We need a "superlike" option for that onehttps://smilingtreefarm.com/blog/carbon-mooooves
Courtesy of @Farmer Roy
Old hat to some of us but well worth sharing, especially to counter the sheer volume of misinformation about livestock farming
@unlacedgecko
Start it here in the direct drilling forums or even better i the holistic farming bit. The wont work here bunch wont look thereIf I had the energy to deal with all the buts and "its alright for you"s I would start a separate thread called "Carbon flows - the time proven advantages of grazing livestock" or something similar.
Most all of what I strive to do here, is to achieve and enhance the flow of Carbon from the atmosphere into the animals and soil, simple thought processes really, but the liquid Carbon pathway is what drives life on Earth... and thus allows farm profit.
I thought the above diagram and post was a really simple way of showing it and teaching the concept, which is almost as abstract as electrical theory but no less valid or real.
It also shows the likely futility of basing future rural payments on soil Carbon stocks IMO, that would be like being paid for having money in the bank; the rewards of "Carbon Farming" are in effect a subsidy, a safety net if you will - a resilient and efficient farming system.
There was even considerable doubt shown that there were more ruminants in existence before mankind and his fertilisers and other "improvements" came to the foreStart it here in the direct drilling forums or even better i the holistic farming bit. The wont work here bunch wont look there
But that is why "they had it so good", because farmers once had to know how stuff worked and how to make it work for them.... now it is all about the money and cashflow, instead of looking after the simple stuff such as how to make money out of sunshine and water
Maybe it was just my old man, back in the days where they had an Ag Class specifically reserved for the blunter instrumentsI never bought into the whole “the old fellas knew what they were doing” thing. They didn’t know “how things worked”, about carbon cycling or or soil biology. They figured out what worked through trial and error and using the very few options they had available to them. Then carried on doing it father and son.
We have so much more knowledge, understanding and, crucially, options available to us today, we should be doing it far better than the old fellas ever did! The fact that most are not is the legacy of the old fellas... unfortunately!
Oh, before Maggie Thatcher?But that’s not that long ago in the grand scheme of things is it? When I say “old fellas” I mean oooooooold fellas. Ploughers of old, old fellas.
Have they never heard of the cowboys slaughtering the thousands (millions?) of bison in north america to starve the native americans off the land? When you could "ride hard all day on a fast horse and still not reach the end of the herd" i rememeber reading that somewere when i was a kid and being absolutley amazed how many bison there must have been. Then being sad when i learnt they were all killed. Id bet theres not that many cattle in america now even with all the fertilizers and feedlots.There was even considerable doubt shown that there were more ruminants in existence before mankind and his fertilisers and other "improvements" came to the fore
It is staggering that folk can learn to type before they can learn to think......
the phrase "fudge me swinging" keeps popping into my head
There was even considerable doubt shown that there were more ruminants in existence before mankind and his fertilisers and other "improvements" came to the fore
It is staggering that folk can learn to type before they can learn to think......
the phrase "fudge me swinging" keeps popping into my head
I don't think the neurons quite connect with someHave they never heard of the cowboys slaughtering the thousands (millions?) of bison in north america to starve the native americans off the land? When you could "ride hard all day on a fast horse and still not reach the end of the herd" i rememeber reading that somewere when i was a kid and being absolutley amazed how many bison there must have been. Then being sad when i learnt they were all killed. Id bet theres not that many cattle in america now even with all the fertilizers and feedlots.
More interventionAccording to Rothamstead we're all wasting our time!
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180228134114.htm