Capturing Residue to Build Soil Organic Matter

[@theshudraway]

Great video! Green = food for bacteria = fertiliser Brown = food for fungus = more soil

[@chahahc]

This is the densest information channel on youtube I've found.

[@patriciarussell8450]

Truly enjoyed the video, no music no annoying background just good info. period thanks for a good tube!

[@jimetzel2971]

Great information John! As a composter, soil consultant, this is very important information for gardeners or anyone growing plants. Stable soils are the key. Nice job!! Look forward to more webinars.

[@ramkrsna11]

Yes this is really true. The matured crop residues applied as a mulch on the soil along with a stimulate helps build Humus. In my farm the stimulate used is made from the local breed cows dung and urine.

[@varunsoni326]

Do you mean Jeevamrut? And do you use green manuring as well?

[@southbridgeforestHOA]

I have been trying to build my clay soil using wood chips for a long time, in Charlotte, NC. I had about 100 yards of arborist wood chips dumped into my back yard a year ago and I added some synthtic fertilizer to speed up the process. Now I know that was the wrong thing to do. I have heard people tilling the wood chips into the soil which robs nitrogetn for a year or 2. any other ideas to speed up the wood to soil conversion? I have also experienced just letting wood chip piles sit and over about 6 years a 6' tall pile will off gas to something about 6 inches tall. very hard to believe till you see it first hand.

[@mom-vw9ul]

Thank you so much for e-mailing this webinar link. It is great to learn while my kids are at school, and on my own schedule. I hope you will continue to provide info. in this manner.

[@nkyabosi4827]

All farmers should watch this, governments too

[@infinitelystoned5812]

I added fresh grass clippings to my wood chip pile and that got it baking and breaking down real good

[@sweetvuvuzela4634]

Hugo Posh has it done well now

[@johnjacob442]

Does that feed bacteria or fungi?

[@mceliniak]

@@johnjacob442 Green Staff feeds bacteria, brown staff feeds fungi - just rule of thumb.

[@itsrachelfish]

Loved this video!! Amazing how cover crops can be used for so many different things

[@Loveoftrees]

very good webinar, thanks for all the useful information, looking forward to more.

[@jeremypaul8844]

Thank you for the video. To differentiate fungal digestion from bacterial is a new topic for me. I checked some books and they only talk in broader terms, that is, microbial digestion. "Fungal digestion" is a phrase is not even mentioned. Can you list some research articles on fungal digestion and SOM formation?

[@Kreepinhedfuk]

Top stuff! Look forward to more John!

[@JohnKempfVisionBuilder]

Thanks!

[@avotreemansanders3289]

Best explanation ever. 😊 thank you!

[@miltkarr5109]

Just throw 1/4 inch crude oil top the soil. All i could get was used motor oil but it really worked a trick with added Nitrogen. Deep black soil that holds moisture.

[@virginiarichter8200]

Great! I use wood chips in the paths of my garden and always see masses of white as they decompose. However, I have been told not to put fresh wood chips in the soil. Wouldn't this be a way to increase humic substances? Tree companies are more than happy to get rid of the wood chips!

[@JohnKempfVisionBuilder]

Wood chips are a very strong fungal food, which lead to fungal dominated soils, which is not favored by some crops. In general, I would prefer mulching with wood chips to not mulching.

[@paulbourdon1236]

I've had a lot of success sheet mulching with wood chips. If you bury them they will use a lot of the nitrogen but on the surface they keep the soil covered, moist and create habitat for fungi and worms. It changed a really poor soil in my front yard that could barely grow weeds to a beautiful black soil full of microbial life.

[@Bulldog420]

Thank you for the video, keep them coming.

[@MohdFahadfaruquikhairabad]

Great information god bless you!!

[@simoncrooks7441]

Good presentation, very interesting. I'm trying to build light volcanic soils in Fiji where they can really consume a lot of organic matter in our warm humid climate.

[@Horse237]

Have you heard of Korean Natural Farming? They used their KNF methods to turn lava into soil. They grow IMO (indigenous Microrganisms) which they spread on their soil. See Drak YT channel for an intro. IMO = bacteria, nematodes and fungi.

[@mleidyfogle]

Thank you; helpful indeed. Does Taino's Bio-Digester have a a part to play here or is Spectrum the amendment of choice? Looking forward to the building organic matter while growing crops segment.

[@benwilliams3539]

How would increase lipid concentration in the soil? With a cover crop with a high natural fat levels like a nut or bean perhaps?

[@gutersteinker]

This are indeed really advanced techniques

[@jamesbeasley8122]

When they show the cover crop being mowed down, they must have forgot about the extensive root left in the ground. I go more along keeping the living root in the ground. Plus leaving the root in the ground when you cut or kill the cover crop. \

[@varunsoni326]

Thanks John, excellent information. Would you be able to tell us if slurry from biogas digesters is of any help in building soil organic matter or is the slurry only a fertiliser ?

[@JohnKempfVisionBuilder]

Varun Soni only a fertilizer.

[@johnjacob442]

So were does wood chips stand, would they feed fungi or bacteria

[@clarencecrowcarter]

If they are dry and old, they will feed fungi. If they were a living, growing tree yesterday, bacterial.

[@norelfarjun3554]

At what stage is a plant considered to be "mature" ? How do you determine when a plant is mature?

[@clarencecrowcarter]

IMHO, "mature" means full senescence. Or when a grass plant looks dead, as in when wheat or oats are ready to harvest.

[@andreantunes7344]

Hi John! Great explanation! The only thing I didn't get 100% is if the fungi do incorporate the residue into their bodies or not... At 5:32 it is said they don't release anything back to the soil profile but at 5:47 it is said it is released back. I have a feeling it is held and kept close while digestion occurs but not incorporated. Right?

[@theshudraway]

They don't "release" it back as a waste product after digestion, like bacteria do. They release it back upon their death as the mushrooms decompose.

[@shoe187lb]

As this video is 5 years old I am wondering how or if the presenters has gotten any new insights on this topic. It may be covered in subsequent videos but most are over one hour and it will take awhile to get through them.

[@portiaholliday8741]

Sounds like in our "active" growing areas we need to still have (3) browns to (1) green:) That undecomposed plant material after such a long time really drives the point home.

[@TheLastLogicalOne]

New research has been showing that it is the microbial digestion and the remains of microbes that form stable organic matter and not the lignin components, which apparently don't last in soil.

[@frodehau]

While this seems to be true, it also seems like fungal decomposition of residue helps the soil become more fungal dominated overall, which helps mycorrhiza do it's thing. See here for more info on that. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3XNl2ybnspsbc0 and kzbin.info/www/bejne/amnIi6CAiamqrZo

[@VeganChiefWarrior]

phew so we just have to grow plants then

[@luisj.serrano5821]

and cant you just apply some lipid t the crop before breaking it? I don´t know, canola oil or something

[@gabrielwilson6484]

Wow. Gabe brown and Joel salatin must have just got lucky building their soils with multi species cover crops and rotational grazing..... ..... ....

[@jamesbeasley8122]

Agree!

[@콘충이]

Thank you so much! really helpful!

[@paarvkapoor7193]

Hi what is rejuvenate that you mentioned a few times.

[@AdvancingEcoAgriculture]

Hi Paarv, Rejuvenate is a liquid mineral amendment product manufactured and sold by AEA. You can find more information about Rejuvenate here: www.advancingecoag.com/store/Rejuvenate™-c20204171

[@johnlim123]

what cover crop have high sugars? to build stable humic ?

[@jasonstoll5388]

"Healthy" crops will produce more energy, and will have a higher fat content for fungal digestion and stable humic compounds.

[@JohnKempfVisionBuilder]

High lipid levels or more important for building stable humic substances than sugars. Lipid levels increase when plants are very efficient with photosynthesis.

[@barneyrubble4827]

Overly worded but accurate, useful information

[@AdvancingEcoAgriculture]

We're glad you were able to find some interesting information in here, despite the wordiness :) Thank you! - The AEA Team

[@momdoan]

very good except I'd have to rewind and rewatch coz I'm slow and stupid. I wish you can come up with some kind of animation for people like me.

[@Omegacrafton]

Great ♥️♥️♥️

[@olomad6722]

What about cellulose in this sorghum? What do bacterias with cellulose?

[@clarencecrowcarter]

The bacteria will thrive on the sugars and nitrogen in the green sorghum before the dry cellulose can be digested by fungi.

[@olomad6722]

@@clarencecrowcarter What about other fungi? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeast They digest simple sugars and nitrogen. Biomass from sorghum can be transform only by fungi. You can add EMI (effective microorganisms) or other bacterias (LB), yeast culture to green manure to make humic acids. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humic_substance "Straw produces stronger bricks that are less likely to break or lose their shape. Modern investigations have found that humic acid is released from straw when mixed with mud". What strains you have in mud? You can treat field like petri dish. Your soil correlate to strains of microorganisms you have. Do you know what microbiome is? Every animal have different bacterias. But you can kill some of them and kill this animal. www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=glyphosate+bee+microbiome You reap what you sow. kzbin.info?search_query=mycelium+transfer This organism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumbricidae can transfer any green manure into soil. They also eat yeasts. Because they have proper strains www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-25081-9 Diversity, structure and sources of bacterial communities in earthworm cocoons Every structure can be like "petri dish". You don't have because you don't have.

[@olomad6722]

@@clarencecrowcarter kzbin.info/www/bejne/joaqZXdsq5eZi7s You chose the bacteriasa's you want. Microbiome

[@ebaybudtender72]

Amazing much appreciated

[@jamieyeomans3803]

keep it coming I love it.

[@chinmayhemani]

What is rejuvenate?

[@AdvancingEcoAgriculture]

Hi Chinmai Hemani, thank you for a great question. Rejuvenate is a product that ensures a successful inoculation event, feeding microbes in all manner of conditions. At AEA, we often use Rejuvenate in combination with our products SeaShield and Spectrum as part of our Regenerative Soil Primer. You can find out more here: www.advancingecoag.com/fall-regenerative-soil-primer - The AEA Team

[@setsappa1540]

Excelent. Thank you!

[@SethsuwaNaturals]

thanks

[@KimClark-1]

I am having a hard time understanding your assertion that a cover crop can be either for fertilization OR for soil building. Not both at the same time. To me, your explanation of N:C is suspect. Because each plant cell has a phospholipid bilayer, I was expecting you to say that the fungi digest the lipids present in plant residues, while the bacteria do the carbohydrates et al. So it seems to me that the limiting factor in soil building using crop residues would be the presence or absence of diverse, beneficial bacterial AND fungal populations in the soil. And of course proper aeration.

[@olomad6722]

You mixed amino acids with cellulose....

[@tallcedars2310]

treated or untreated, I would choose untreated so it is consumed naturally by the bacteria. We always try to rush things when nature does a better job without commercial products needed.

[@jaredlapierre1304]

Just grow peas, I doubt you're growing carbon-rich corn on the same scale. Not all crops have the same C:N ratio.

[@JohnKempfVisionBuilder]

We can help nature along and support and enhance natural process so that soils are regenerated very quickly. With the right management, and support with the right products, soils can regenerate in years what would take centuries if left alone.

[@beaman444]

Sorry, but using GMO corn as an example isn't what I'm looking for. And what is "Rejuvenate"? Chemicals?

[@Kreepinhedfuk]

+Beaman Surchit It's a fungal stimulant. He stated that in the video.

[@beaman444]

+Kreepinhedfuk Chemical stimulant or organic?

[@Kreepinhedfuk]

+Beaman Surchit AEA don't use Chemicals...that's the point! It's all 100% organic, natural, as nature intended. If you are unfamiliar with John Kempf & the work of AEA, i suggest you do some research. It's gonna change farming to what it always should've been - medicinal quality food, abundance & sustainability.

[@beaman444]

+Kreepinhedfuk Sounds good. Why is he using GMO corn as the example?

[@Kreepinhedfuk]

+Beaman Surchit The GMO corn wasn't the example...that belonged to the farmer client of john's who is undergoing the experiment/switch to organic, regenerative soil amendments. The fact that gmo corn was used was irrelevant to what john was demonstrating...

[@duncancampbell8791]

Slow down

[@Meredith848art]

You are really not telling me how to add fungi and oil to a compost heap to make humus. Are you trying to sell me something?

[@JohnKempfVisionBuilder]

Unfortunately, there are not good broad spectrum fungal inoculants available commercially that you can add. You need to develop fungal populations by managing the type of feed stocks you provide. Do you have something you are trying to sell?

[@Meredith848art]

only that i am so fed up with this talk about humus, and no one says how to make it......it may be a breakdown product of the process used to isolate it....thats all...

[@Meredith848art]

maybe there is a way to breed fungi with oils that would build good soil

[@Meredith848art]

high omega crops, like chickweed!

[@JohnKempfVisionBuilder]

How to make humus: grow abundantly healthy crops and cover crops that are high in oil content. Done.

[@theecoiqproject5859]

Good job. So no offense here. But your information is lacking cohesion. Very scientific, but dated. Look into dr Christine jones research and complete the picture. Elaine Ingham is great but not last word...dominant not dominant....Still not wholistic. Good luck.! 👍

[@JamesFitzgerald]

This presentation is basically an advertisement for their product. I am sorry I wasted my time on it.

[@southbridgeforestHOA]

oh so they sell rejuvenate?

[@otivaeey]

Are you kidding? It takes wisdom to understand what he says. Saying that John kempf is only here to sell products shows that you don't even understand a wee bit out of the video. Maybe come back another time.