Kate Tarrant
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I’m cross posting this from the FaceBook Farm-made Biofertz group. It’s an interesting follow-on from Dr James White’s interviews in which he talks about adding endophytes to corn. There is a link to free courses offered by Gowing to Seed (compiled and facilitated by Dr White and colleagues) which I am sure will be worthwhile to many.
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Happy new year to all
We brought the farm a Xmas present this year being a Tow and Fert 500 litre foliar spray trailer. Has a single spray nozzle that can handle up to 3mm particles with a 8-10m spray width.
It’s probably on the small side for us but will spray out the 500 litres across 2-3ha in about 20 minutes. I managed to get two loads out in…
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Will be interesting to see how the pasture responds. Let us know how it goes.
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Now I’m really jealous.. looks so much better than my sprayer!!
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A few progress photos on the Johnson Su mix.
Has definitely compressed as it breaks down given it was all the way to the top of the cage when we started it on the 8 October.
It gets a daily 2 minutes of water at 6pm each day using the auto retic sprinklers.
Have added some worms to it a few weeks ago too to help with the process
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We have managed to source some cheaper seconds mulies for $2/kg – see photo. Much more cost effective!
So we have put 15 x 20kg boxes into a 1,000 litre pod to make a fish hydrolysate plus water, molasses and the base culture.
The ones that were made on farm with David Hardwick used a minced up burley block of Mulies which have gone well and…
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It’s all a bit fishy!😅
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A quick update – the fish bodies have all broken down with only the bones still around. Needs a stir every few weeks to help keep the process going which gets it bubbling again for a day or two. Smell wise it’s not sweet but it’s not like awful rotting fish either – just slightly unpleasant on the nose. Not to bad for 6 weeks of fermentation.
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