A good, honest and informative conversation about these 3 growers’ recent successes with regenerative agriculture techniques and using biological and mineral nutrition products.
Boe Clausen (1st Year Regenerative Transition) – This year Boe was able to grow 250-bushel corn with only 20 lbs of N. Boe farms in eastern Washington state and grows alfalfa hay, corn, wheat, triticale, pasture grass, and cattle. He farms 5000 acres and has about 8000 acres for cattle.
Steve Cardoza (3rd Year Regenerative) – Steve is a 2nd generation organic raisin grower based in Fresno, California. He grows on over 300 acres and has been working with AEA for 3 seasons. He has seen lots of success using AEA nutritional foliar applications that significantly reduced pest pressure issues.
David Knopp (1st Year Regenerative Transition) – David grows corn and soybeans in southern Illinois. He also has a 14-acre blackberry vineyard. David uses AEA products on both and is excited about the successes he has seen.
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We have been collecting samples of rain water, urine and lettuce/ vegetable wash water, and studying these under the microscope. We have collected samples with magnetic properties and studied what appear to be nano metals, micro fibres, possibly inactive pathogens, worms or who knows. We don't have the capital to buy the kit we need to find out the sum of what we see all over the world.
Then as farmers, we have witnessed several chemical burns on perennial plants not seen before, marks on citrus fruits restricting sale again never seen before in living memory, and also odd non healing skin marks on humans that have the very same, from appearance to basic observation, nanoparticles of unknown pollutants that appear to be aerosol contaminants preventing healing and matching material found in rain water,.urine and so on as above.
Have you got any experience testing for SAI (approved weather manipulation compounds) that might match fallout and ergo help us see if these compounds create antagonistic effects of plant critical nutrient availability and subsequently enable mineral depletion and thereafter, whose event increases since the 1980's, appear to tally with CDC, NIH and American heart society data on % per capita increases in human occurrence of now common morbidity per decade since. Heart,. Respiratory, Bone Tinnitus etc
I look forward to some acknowledgement,.or the more usual shadow ban such questions typically initiate.
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Привет из России! Парни,стали редко снимать ролики,ждём с нетерпением. С уважением Константин Тверской.
Do you hv any experience with celery? Septoria leaf spot is forcing me to use fungicides. I hate that.
Awesome. Steve's experience being in Fresno is especially valuable for those of us in CA promoting regenerative ag, but David's experience with the SWD in the berries was probably the prize story. There is much discussion about carbon farming in CA and restructuring of the Healthy Soils Program. We have allies who see pesticide use reduction and carbon sequestration as a competing dichotomy. We need stories that illustrate that carbon, as a proxy for life, and pest prevention as a sign of life happen in parallel. If you want to cut toxics, build SOM and if you want to farm carbon, cut toxic inputs. The outcome is coming roughly in parallel from either or both pathways. It would be helpful for people who are focused on pesticide use reduction to hear in these stories just mention of how carbon is coming along with the transition. It must roughly correlate with all the other metrics you are tracking with the plant sap analysis, foliars, the evidence of enough N and other nutrient cycling, the earthworms and immunity to pests and severe weather impacts. Soil Organic Matter (SOM) might not be precise enough for valuing CSP or HSP payments or to enter the carbon market (though it might be better than what the DayCent models provide even now). There are so many variables including across the field and sample depth, BUT it seems useful to track SOM at least annually as it must be indicating if you're going in the right direction, i.e. a metric to learn from? SOM testing must say enough of value. It is probably standard with every $20-30 test. I would like to have heard what farmers you work with think about, for example, a government program like California's Healthy Soils Program including data-gathering of SOM annually to be able to do even just a little more optimistic forecasting of C sequestration toward mandated climate goals, not on conventional farms applying bad compost with fall nitrogen like they are doing, but on farms that are pursuing a holistic and profitable lower-input transition like your farmers.
The earthworms are way more efficient than the "green machines" – better sell my Deere stock!
It would be nice to have some kind of podcast that actually deals with the southeast,I'm going on 4 yrs no till with cover crops,and its an all together different kind of animal here in my neck of the woods