Priming The Soil
Tim Hammerich
News Reporter
Yesterday we reported on why the winter time could be a great time to build mineral associated organic matter which can help to capture and store nitrogen. But how exactly? Advancing Eco Agriculture founder John Kempf says there are a few factors that are key to fixing nitrogen to be available for next season’s crop.
Kempf… “ When you have the combination. Of microbes which have the capacity for nitrogen fixation combined with a strong bios stimulant, combined with some degree of crop residue or available soil carbon combined with cold temperatures, not warm temperatures. In most agricultural soils, you can quite readily fix 60 to 80 units of nitrogen from fall to spring. In some soils you can do more. In some soils you can't do that much because they don't have enough carbon. So it is, there is a degree of context dependency here as there is with all biological products. So I think that's, that's somewhere we're really missing the window of opportunity in many conventional agronomic managed soils. Instead of putting on biological inoculants in the fall, we're putting on anhydrous ammonia in the fall, which has the exact opposite effect.”
Advancing Eco Agriculture offers soil primer products like Rejuvenate and Revenant Charge to help awaken existing soil biology.
