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In Episode Four of the “How to Do It” Series Two, we will be discovering the power of seedling treatment. On my farms, we would never plant trays of vegetable seedlings or bagged tree seedlings without applying minerals, microbes, and natural biostimulants. This is the perfect opportunity to set the plant up for a healthy, vigorous, disease-free life. Through experience, we have found that the best mineral-based biostimulant blend for this purpose is the NTS product Root and Shoot. This liquid features a broad spectrum of major and minor minerals supported and enhanced with humates, kelp, amino acids, vitamins, and plant growth promotants. This tool delivers the mineral nutrition component of a successful seedling treatment. The microbial component involves a combination of Platform and Bio-N. This duo involves the super productive synergy between Mycorrhizal fungi and Azotobacter. There are several components to this synergy but the most important involves AMF supplying soluble phosphate to create ATP, the battery that drives the enzymatic harvesting of nitrogen from the atmosphere into the soil. The mycorrhizal fungi is rewarded with some of that harvested nitrogen and that helps sponsor the protein required to create that vast network of hyphae. Platform, also contains the versatile problem solver, Trichoderma along with a blend of other potent microorganisms including bacillus. I hope this short video will inspire you to give your seedlings the best possible start and set them up for a productive life. https://buff.ly/49wm1yP #farming #food #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #organic #nutrientdense #agriculture #sustainability #permaculture #farmtotable #training #nutrition #farming #management #workshop #graemesait #freerange #aussiefarmers #aussieag #farmlife #australianagriculture #allthingsagriculture #sustainablefarming #health #howtodoit

In Episode Three of the “How to Do it” Series Two, you will learn a little more about the master mineral, Calcium. There is a strong argument that calcium is the most important player in high-production fertility, crop quality, and disease resistance. Calcium is required for the cell division that sponsors growth, it governs the cellular delivery of all minerals, and many underestimate this mineral's yield-building potential. Calcium is the most immobile of all minerals and this immobility is further compounded by the impact of excesses of other minerals. In fact, this critically important player is seriously reduced by the antagonistic effect of nitrogen, magnesium, potassium and sodium if they have been oversupplied. In this video, I will cite examples of impressive yield increases linked directly to calcium nutrition and, unpack the complex interactions with Boron, Silica, Fungi, Legumes and share a range of DIY strategies for delivering sufficient Calcium to your crop, Calcium is the key mineral if we are proactively striving to reduce the need for chemical intervention because it builds cell wall strength; with this calcium-based barrier, we aim to buckle the hyphae of fungal invaders and snap the mandibles of leaf-eating insects. Hopefully, you will be more calcium-conscious after these tips and strategies. https://buff.ly/3B425GM #farming #food #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #organic #nutrientdense #agriculture #sustainability #permaculture #farmtotable #training #nutrition #farming #management #workshop #graemesait #freerange #aussiefarmers #aussieag #farmlife #australianagriculture #allthingsagriculture #sustainablefarming #health #howtodoit

In Episode Two of Series Two of the “How to Do it” series, you will discover how to multiply Mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). This is no small thing because these wondrous creatures are amongst the most expensive of commercial inoculums. The reason they are so costly relates to the fact that they cannot be “brewed”. They are hand-harvested from the roots of living host plants. There is a little deception sometimes seen in the marketing of AMF, where it is claimed they are present in liquid fertilisers or that they can multiply in compost. This is nonsense. They can only multiply on living plants, and the favoured host for commercial manufacturers is Sorghum-Sudan, which has a large root system and tends to be quite effusive in feeding its symbiont. Last week, you learnt how to make a kick-ass potting mix, and now we will use that mix to great benefit. It will be placed in a large plastic grow bag and then planted with inoculated sorghum seed to multiply AMF within that bag. After a couple of months, there will be a large bag jam-packed with roots, all of which will be growing AMF. I’ll also share the best way to harvest and utilise this DIY gift. These organisms burrow into the root and then begin growing a vast network of fine filaments that eventually amount to a 1000% increase in root surface area. It’s not hard to imagine that this might be a good thing. All the water and nutrient foraging capacity of the original roots is dramatically amplified. These new plant partners harvest phosphate and zinc, increase the uptake of calcium and potassium and boost nitrogen-fixing bacteria. They also stimulate plant immunity and trigger humus building in the soil. I hope you will be as excited as I am about the potential of this practice. https://buff.ly/4eK4a8q #farming #food #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #organic #nutrientdense #agriculture #sustainability #permaculture #farmtotable #training #nutrition #farming #management #workshop #graemesait #freerange #aussiefarmers #aussieag #farmlife #australianagriculture #allthingsagriculture #sustainablefarming #health #howtodoit

How to Do It Series 2 - Episode 1 - The Perfect Potting Mix Welcome to a new series of the How-To Do It video series with Graeme Sait. We have now completed the videos produced for Series 1, so we spent a productive weekend at Nutrition Farms in Applethorpe to film 16 videos for Series 2. You are in for a treat with some of these, as I will be sharing some really important new strategies that can build your high-production fertility and increase your profit. The first video in Series 2 is entitled “How to produce your own high-performance potting mix.” I have a commercial greenhouse on my home farm, and I’ve perfected a really productive potting mix recipe that I will share. It includes obvious components like coco peat, compost, and a mineral fertiliser blend, but there are other interesting additives like basalt crusher dust and clay-based soft rock phosphate. This nutrient-rich clay additive is of particular importance if you intend to innoculate plants with mycorrhizal fungi. These creatures require clay chemistry to survive and thrive in a potting mix. This potting mix recipe can also be used in plastic grow bags to plant sorghum-sudan, the most effective host plant to grow mycorrhizal fungi. An upcoming video will describe how to grow your own mycorrhizal fungi on the farm, and this represents an exciting new DIY strategy. I hope you enjoy the new series. It contains a host of cutting-edge tips and strategies, and we had a lot of fun making it. https://buff.ly/48QTXpv #farming #food #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #organic #nutrientdense #agriculture #sustainability #permaculture #farmtotable #training #nutrition #farming #management #workshop #graemesait #freerange #aussiefarmers #aussieag #farmlife #australianagriculture #allthingsagriculture #sustainablefarming #health #howtodoit

How to Do It Series - Episode 16 - Foliar Fertilising In this episode, we will examine the practice of foliar fertilisation more closely. The idea of applying nutrition via the leaf was once the preserve of a handful of greenhouse growers and some cannabis producers who had discovered the many benefits of their high-value crop. However, the uptake of foliar nutrition has exploded in recent years, and now there are thousands of broadacre producers, graziers, orchardists, and vegetable producers who have awakened to this strategy's potential. This foliar revolution has been driven by several factors, including the following: 1) Cost saving - delivery of nutrition through the leaf is 12 times more efficient than soil-based delivery. This can sponsor considerable cost savings through increased fertiliser efficiency. 2) Bypassing lockups - excesses of cations, like calcium and magnesium, or anions, like phosphorus and nitrate nitrogen, can seriously impact the uptake of the specific minerals they antagonise. The foliar route allows growers to bypass these problems with direct injection into the leaf. High P, for example, locks up zinc. In this instance, there is little gain from fertigating zinc because the phosphate oversupply just locks it up. It is much more productive to foliar spray chelated zinc directly onto the leaf. 3) Nitrogen sustainability - urea, when applied to the soil, rapidly converts to leachable nitrate nitrogen, and volatilisation is involved in this process. Agriculture contributes 80% of the nitrous oxide gas to the greenhouse blanket. This gas is 310 times more thickening of that blanket than CO2. When you foliar spray urea (with humic acid), the associated creation of a urea humate removes the leaching and volatilising potential. More importantly, it delivers (12 times more efficiently) nitrogen in the amine form, which is then rapidly converted in the leaf into amino acids and proteins. There is no better way to improve nitrogen use efficiency than foliar urea. 4) Problem-solving - foliar fast-tracks the correction of yield-limiting nutrient deficiencies. The response is often obvious within hours. In this presentation, you will learn all of the dos and don'ts associated with foliar fertilising. Assuming you are a foliar virgin, you may even be inspired to experiment with this superproductive practice. Wishing you all a rewarding regenerative journey! https://buff.ly/4eoU1OF #farming #food #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #organic #nutrientdense #agriculture #sustainability #permaculture #farmtotable #training #nutrition #farming #management #workshop #graemesait #freerange #aussiefarmers #aussieag #farmlife #australianagriculture #allthingsagriculture #sustainablefarming #health #howtodoit

How to Do It Series - Episode 15 - Brewing Protozoa Tea In this episode of the. “How to do it” series, you will discover how to multiply protozoa, to boost fertility and production. Growers often miss protozoa when they commission a soil-life analysis. These organisms are largely impacted by farm chemicals and chlorine in town water, and their replacement can offer multiple benefits. These organisms are profoundly important nutrient recyclers. Their chief role is to maintain the balance of bacteria. For scale, a watermelon-sized protozoa would eat 10,000 pea-sized bacteria on a daily basis. The protozoa use the minerals they require from this feast and spit out those not needed for the plants to utilise. The most abundant of these recycled minerals is nitrogen, because bacteria contain much more nitrogen (5:1 C:N ratio) than protozoa require with their. 30:1 C:N ratio. This is seriously important nitrogen cycling, and if protozoa are missing, then the nitrogen remains in the bodies of bacteria (over 400 kgs of N per hectare) until they eventually die. Protozoa are also the favourite food source for earthworms, and these marvellous creatures will increase in number if you can increase their food source with a protozoa brew. Protozoa are also renowned as root zone architects. They release an auxin hormone that significantly increases root branching, particularly on grasses and cereals. Sometimes, protozoa can be the missing microbial link in a fully functioning, fertile soil. Why not try this simple multiplication strategy to see if it applies to your soil? Wishing you every success. https://buff.ly/4eQECrp #farming #food #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #organic #nutrientdense #agriculture #sustainability #permaculture #farmtotable #training #nutrition #farming #management #workshop #graemesait #freerange #aussiefarmers #aussieag #farmlife #australianagriculture #allthingsagriculture #sustainablefarming #health #howtodoit

Event: Brewing your own biological workforce Join Soils for Life on the 21st October at 5:30pm AEST for a free webinar on ‘Brewing your own Biological Workforce’. Farmer and Vic No Till board member Callum Lawson will be sharing his experiences in brewing biofertilisers alongside biological agronomist Marco Giorgio De Angeli Rego from Nutri-Tech Solutions. Using biofertilisers is one way to enhance plant nutrient uptake and bolster soil biology. In this webinar, we'll be covering the basics of how to brew your own biofertilisers, how to apply them, and how to measure for success. This event is part of our Cropping Resilience project, partly funded by the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund. https://buff.ly/3YrTUgj #farming #food #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #organic #nutrientdense #agriculture #sustainability #permaculture #farmtotable #training #nutrition #farming #management #workshop #graemesait #freerange #aussiefarmers #aussieag #farmlife #australianagriculture #allthingsagriculture #sustainablefarming #health #howtodoit

How to Do It Series - Episode 14 - Brewing Micro-Force In this episode, you will discover how to multiply a range of superproductive bacillus species on the farm to create your own living fertiliser. In the time-starved world of commercial farming, many would claim that they can’t afford to dedicate precious time to yet another job on the farm. However, after watching this video and understanding the productive and protective potential of these organisms, we hope that you will see the incredible value gained in this practice. Bacillus organisms are a tailor-made, specialised workforce that can help compensate for the extra challenges associated with climate change farming. They are particularly hardy, so that they can handle heat, salt, drought, and other abiotic stresses more ably than most other organisms. This makes them super competitive in the root zone, where they can continue to thrive for the full crop cycle. During that plant partnership, these bacillus strains can fix nitrogen, solubilise locked-up phosphate, counter disease, and boost plant immunity. All five of these specialists can also produce chitinase, which provides significant protection against both disease and insect pests. You have probably heard about the exciting research findings related to Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, and Bacillus megaterium. However, you may not be as aware of the gifts provided by Bacillus pumilus and Bacillus licheniformis. Google any of this quintet, and you will get excited! I hope some of you are inspired to set up an aerobic brewing station to experiment and discover for yourselves, the bounty of bacillus brews. https://buff.ly/406D6ww #farming #food #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #organic #nutrientdense #agriculture #sustainability #permaculture #farmtotable #training #nutrition #farming #management #workshop #graemesait #freerange #aussiefarmers #aussieag #farmlife #australianagriculture #allthingsagriculture #sustainablefarming #health #howtodoit

How to Do It Series - Episode 13 - Seed Treatment In this episode, we focus on an inexpensive strategy that can provide the biggest “bang for your buck” of any practice on the farm, I’m talking about seed treatment. The simple inclusion of minerals and microbes as a seed treatment can provide a remarkable kickstart for your crop, which almost inevitably translates to a yield increase at season's end. Some microbial seed coatings, like mycorrhizal fungi and azotobacter, will partner with the plant for the entire growing season, delivering a suite of protective and productive benefits. Others, including important germination-enhancing trace minerals like manganese, will ensure that you optimise the performance of increasingly expensive seed costs. When you treat cover crop seed with AMF, for example, you are building a functional matrix of mycorrhizal hyphae in the soil, into which you will plant your next cash crop. Recent research into Azotobacter has shown that these super productive, nitrogen-fixing organisms will persist and perform for the full crop cycle. A nutritional seed coating is like a mother’s milk to seedlings. Once you have tried it and recognised the benefits, you will never plant naked again. Wishing you all a successful, stress-free spring. https://buff.ly/3YduzXo #farming #food #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #organic #nutrientdense #agriculture #sustainability #permaculture #farmtotable #training #nutrition #farming #management #workshop #graemesait #freerange #aussiefarmers #aussieag #farmlife #australianagriculture #allthingsagriculture #sustainablefarming #health #howtodoit

How to Do It Series - Episode 12 - Utilising Microbes This week's episode is a little different because we will be discussing the intricacies of microbial inputs in agriculture. We have received several emails asking that we detail the NTS microbe range and explain the roles and benefits of various inputs. Here we will look at the potential of nitrogen-fixing inoculums, where you can save on N inputs by harvesting free, atmospheric N. We will consider microbes that release some of your frozen phosphate. There are task-specific blends that can stimulate plant growth, control diseases and help manage insects. We will also consider the multiple benefits of mycorrhizal fungi. When we inoculate with a creature that has been decimated with extractive agriculture (just 10% remain), there is a whole suite of benefits. These range from increased nutrient and water access to enhanced disease resistance and increased resilience to climate extremes. In this presentation, I am sharing my understanding of microbial inoculums that we have developed, but many similar products are available across the globe, and I’m hoping this presentation may inspire you to try some of them. https://buff.ly/4064ZVN #farming #food #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #organic #nutrientdense #agriculture #sustainability #permaculture #farmtotable #training #nutrition #farming #management #workshop #graemesait #freerange #aussiefarmers #aussieag #farmlife #australianagriculture #allthingsagriculture #sustainablefarming #health #howtodoit