I’ve always used it to clear up wet spots, would have never guessed it would work the other way with severe droughts too, good to know
@juderickman82753 ай бұрын
I appreciate the clarity of the information about gymnosperms and won’t ever see evergreens in the same way again; the junipers are very interesting (more below) as are the oaks! (I’m also interested in the East Texas pines.) On the in-depth presentation of the junipers, interesting overview and I’ll interlibrary loan Robert Adams’s book. I’ve always loved magnolias but never knew their fascinating, evolutionary history, or how tough they are! Very interesting range and ecological insights! Great Plant Party webinar!
@samrichards6703 ай бұрын
This was extremely educational. Appreciate your report and research. It has given me an directive on how to approach the matter in my situation. Thanks.
@gcranch99135 ай бұрын
Only problem with ripping on established pastures is when it doesn’t rain afterwards and the existing roots completely dry out and die. You have made the conditions worse. Happened to us on coastal Bermuda
@EarthREALTOR9 ай бұрын
Thanks for the great class! I went to Green Star Wetland Farms in Alvin TX for my birthday in the spring of this year. I bought some great wetland plants that have been hard to find. I have a pond with a bog in my yard and learn about wetland plants in that way as well as in my Texas Master Naturalist and my Texas Native Plant Society activities.
@CamilleTylerbrand10 ай бұрын
Thanks so much
@plantguy902 Жыл бұрын
What about increased organic matter, crop rotations with deep rooted species to break hard pans and bring up deeper water reserves... what about nitro radish to open up the top 15cm? I would like to see long term (10-15) year studies on soil ripping effects on soil health indicators. Was this research published?
@paulprince7636 Жыл бұрын
While most of the program was slanted to commercial growers it did have some good information. The last presentation was well worth waiting for very informative for me as a recently certified Master Gardener. I will look forward to viewing more of these presentations.
@ravindersinghmadadgar3903 Жыл бұрын
Nice information
@herbhouston5378 Жыл бұрын
Wow!! What a fount of useful and much needed information! I'm 78 and grew up in Southwestern Ohio. I knew farmers that were generations on the land. The pastures were never touched, even in the fall to break the weed seed cycle. Year round there was just a minimum of vegetative growth....even in the Spring when things should be exploding out of the ground... there was nothing. Back in the 40s and 50s chisel plowing and deep ripping were unknown. The man I worked when I was in highschool, bless his heart, just didn't know any better. He did what his dad and granddad had done. The results were minimal, but they didn't know how to change the way they did things. It's like the old thing, "Well, we've always done "it" that way. Well, then you've always been wrong." Working by precedent is only good and right if that precedent is grounded in good and right thinking.
@sergiomarin1793 Жыл бұрын
Great and very helpful video, thanks for sharing it
@syx_oclockgone3047 Жыл бұрын
Both Keyline and the Ripper are Australian inventions. Yeomans was his name. Was he regarded as a radical? Hell yeah. Arguably the greatest mind in the history of Regen Ag, and that's a lot of competition. Thankfully many have since listened to his and other voices.
@JohnDoe-jq5wy Жыл бұрын
Gabe Brown and multi - population species
@JohnDoe-jq5wy Жыл бұрын
WELDONE AND POWERFUL.....
@craigsimon935 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for making the video! Very informative. I hope you follow up with more on how you continue to repair the soil from the abuse, i.e. getting more organic matter in the soil, lowering soil density, etc. Having grown up on a SD ranch I have been a huge follower of Dr. Dwayne Beck and his research in repairing and no till farming. The ripping obviously is a form of tillage but maybe a necessary one to get the repair started and then maybe needed for a while until the soil gets repaired. The soil didn't get damaged in a few years and won't get repaired a just a few either but I appreciate you making the efforts to do it right.
@eugenehancock2649 Жыл бұрын
Salt may be removed from the surface.
@williammatzek4660 Жыл бұрын
You may know this ! When dad was farming he pulled a chisel across each field twice (different angle each time). He raised good crops!!!!!
@DrMerriwether Жыл бұрын
What a great time! 😃
@therealtexasrose Жыл бұрын
I am rewatching your segment right now. We have a hackberry tree and I had not know that the berries and leaves were edible. Now that I have harvest a ton of mulberry leaves, I will start in on the hackberry. Thanks for the information.
@DrMerriwether Жыл бұрын
@@therealtexasrose Thanks, I love hearing people are putting this information into practice!🥰
@davidmicalizio824 Жыл бұрын
VERY interesting!
@deannekayepanes14 Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for a very informative video. I think this video is related to this article. southtexasrangelands.tamu.edu/files/2020/07/ERM-050.pdf
@ozlakota12 жыл бұрын
these pics are more about ground cover or the lack of
@gcranch99132 жыл бұрын
So is invora now sold in small quantities 4/10/22?
@downrightdirtyshamecowboy54742 жыл бұрын
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@subash152 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing the study and results! If you can build swales and ponds then over a period of time deep soil ripping is not needed . Thought of sharing !! Good luck
@swrtsolutionsinc.10922 жыл бұрын
irrigation+rainfall = evaporation + transpiration + runoff + leaching Which one of these processes do Farmers really have control over during the growing season? If you have the ability to irrigate your sandy soils and water is cheap and plentiful, then you are fortunate and have some control on the left side of the equation. If you do not have irrigation, you must look at the factors on the right side of the equation to see what can be controlled or minimized to benefit your crop. Evaporation from the soil surface can be reduced with mulch or leaving crop residue on the soil surface. Transpiration is a function of the plant leaf surface area and the weather. Runoff is or should be minimal in sandy textured soils with high percolation rates. This leaves the leaching of water out of the root zone as the #1 controllable loss of moisture to your crop. Interrupting the downward movement of moisture in your soil by installing a "smart" barrier can greatly reduce the leaching of water and nutrients. SWRT subsurface membranes detain/retain up to 90% of irrigation or rainfall in the root zone for crop use by disrupting the gravitational movement of water in the soil while still allowing excess water to percolate and do not create anaerobic soil conditions.
@stevebowman4212 жыл бұрын
Another guy to look at is Peter Andrews and his natural sequence farming methods. Wish I could rip, but would be pulling up rockd bigher than the tractor. Great work but listening seems you only have limited species?
@PacoOtis2 жыл бұрын
Maybe have some video of the later look of the areas?
@tipperarymick53372 жыл бұрын
Very interesting.
@rosseryn82162 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting
@agc70762 жыл бұрын
I'm going to try using my sub solar around my pond area to see if I can trap water in and create a better water table against against the walls
@pawanjindal42862 жыл бұрын
weldon
@russellringland13992 жыл бұрын
Plenty of room here for 10,000 trees. They are a great generational crop that would benefit those kiddos when they are 45yrs old.
@ronaldduwaynebrown80712 жыл бұрын
Still have my grandfather's subsoilers he used back in the 50s and 60s
@HighRoad3172 жыл бұрын
Excellent content.
@alanstuartwatt24552 жыл бұрын
Keyline design ...was invented by an Australian farmer...PA YEOMANS .in the 1950s ..read his books...he makes it easy to understand...
@mikejones35602 жыл бұрын
Yeah nah
@We_are_the_light3 жыл бұрын
Ripping can make the plowpan worse
@TheCommono2 жыл бұрын
Could you elaborate on that?
@alanstuartwatt24552 жыл бұрын
I don 't think so as it has been practiced in Australia for over 60 years...Keyline design ...was invented by an Australian farmer...PA YEOMANS .in the 1950s ..read his books...he makes it easy to understand.
@greg3wilson7682 жыл бұрын
If you can plant cover crops with long root development AFTER deep ripping, then the root growth should sustain the break up of the existing hardpan. Also, the deep root growth should add organic matter to the soil at all depths.
@deannekayepanes142 жыл бұрын
@@greg3wilson768 wow nice insight! thank you mister
@Beyonder8335 Жыл бұрын
They can, if you use a straight shank narrow tip and go deep enough to get under the pan it breaks it though. Definitely best to dig a hole and find the layer first
@ihus99503 жыл бұрын
Great information 👍
@lindacox41423 жыл бұрын
Using glyphosate is Never acceptable.
@diceportz71073 жыл бұрын
Do you use swales anywhere? I have been watching an Australian guy, Polyculture Farms Dryland Permaculture, that uses both swales and deep soil ripping.
@pdudy82613 жыл бұрын
Apparently this has fewer downsides
@colmanlong1032 Жыл бұрын
What are swales.
@diceportz7107 Жыл бұрын
@@colmanlong1032 Think wide shallow ditches built on contour to capture and slow the water. They aren't meant to hold it long term like a dam, more like a leaky weir. Just something to slow the water so it has more time to soak into the ground. You will have less run off which means less errosion and more long term soil moisture.
@duncancampbell87913 жыл бұрын
Megan -- it’s currently 2021 - have there been additional studies/observations since the video completed in 2018?
@oldcountryman27953 жыл бұрын
Nobody on KZbin posts follow up videos. It’s so easy to show a “how to” video when no one will see the lack of results. There are thousands of ‘how to plant” videos and very few “look at the results” videos.
@kareharpies2 жыл бұрын
She literally tells you the results of the study in the video and you can see how improved her pond area was after she ripped the soil by the before and after pictures. These people are farmers, not "content creators."
@oby-16073 жыл бұрын
Great video. We are looking at ripping to help offset compaction. Thanks again.
@We_are_the_light3 жыл бұрын
Sometimes it makes it worse
@edwinschwartz24722 жыл бұрын
@@We_are_the_light I have never experienced where ripping made plow pan worse. Ripping wet soil has no benefit. For me ripping in my clay loam has always eliminated compaction, greatly increased water retention, and increased crop yields.
@KoiAquaponics3 жыл бұрын
I wonder if California arid land has the potential to be restored like in Texas.
@patricianye61714 жыл бұрын
Why aren’t you using NATIVE GRASSES? The root systems of native grasses help water penetration!
@benwilliams35392 жыл бұрын
So do non natives
@xxpowwowbluexx4 жыл бұрын
Check out Dr. Elaine Ingham’s videos. If you make aerobic compost with the right ratio of fungi to bacteria and either use it or spray a compost tea or extract properly onto the ground at planting, or even work the compost into the dirt/soil prior to sowing the seed, you will not need to irrigate at all, even in a drought or a desert area. For example, see the following video, beginning at the 38:50 mark. The lake in the Texas prairie at the G. W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, TX actually filled up from dew with no irrigation and no rainfall during a time of drought...because the proper biology was in place. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppyUZYSvqtGWb6c
@trigunnn26 жыл бұрын
saw this on National Geographic on how it makes soil on your land perculat
@biancabee77316 жыл бұрын
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