Christine Jones -- Soil Carbon: From microbes to mitigation

In both the US and around the world, what we call “modern Ag” practices seem to be going off the track. Insect, weed and disease resistance issues have been getting worse, and there is a general lack of attention towards mineral nutrition. Luckily, we see advances being made with new products, safer herbicides, polymers that will extend residual periods, insightful disease control products and huge advances in instrumentation.
2017 Soil & Nutrition Conference - soilandnutrition.org/​
Hosted by the Bionutrient Food Association - bionutrient.org/​

[@tonysu8860]

To the organizers of this conference, Please run some Production testing before your conferences. In this case, obviously the slides are washed out because of the room lighting. Although some organizers might run software to display the slide deck separately from displaying in the room, In this case, the program could probably have been avoided by simply turning down the lights in the room.

[@kevinmcveigh2784]

Thanks

[@billlumberg5746]

Brilliant biologist but Christine has such a hard time with electronics lmao hahaha!

[@kevinmcveigh2784]

Hi if I make 70 percent biochar and soak in rain water for 3 months with mycobacterium and use a gentle air pump and sugar to ferment do think the biology will survive in the soil? If I make 90 percent bio char and use 1 tea spoon soaked in water and probiotics and repeat the above process and drink it do you think the probiotic may survive my stomach acid and make it way to the lower intestine ??

[@paulbraga4460]

you need to be clearer with what you are saying than this? blessings

[@garthwunsch]

If the rain water goes south and is full of spirilla, won’t much matter about the probiotics will it!

[@tonysu8860]

Probably the real question would be why you'd be doing these experiments. Why would you try to manually cultivate specific bacteria? Why would you not consider simply allowing the bacteria to self-cultivate in soil by simply providing the necessary conditions like biodegraded carbon, moisture, aeration and plant life? Regarding probiotics, I'm currently reconsidering its value in light that ideal gut bacteria depends on a balanced ratio of Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes. Maybe introducing a probiotic a half hour before ingesting a very large meal might do something but in general if you want to avoid obesity or IBS (consequences of an imbalance), you want to maintain a proper balance of bacteria in your gut, not messing around with probiotics. Do your own research to verify what I've just posted.

[@kevinmcveigh2784]

70 and 90 percent carbon?

[@peterclark6290]

Soil has developed over millennia to do everything necessary to support life. It Ph balances through earthworm castings, micchhorizal 'carbon addicts' transfer other nutrients for a mutually beneficial exchange with roots, carbon acids acids break down sand and rocks, etc. We humans don't have to anything beyond respect what Natural soil has already developed itself. IOW no tillage, permanent ground cover, intent on capturing every drop of water, etc. There are no human formulae required - in fact that's where our species always screws up. New, Improved Soil is a silly human dream.

[@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb]

Must be incredibly frustrating to give these presentations year after year and see so little change. 99% of crops are still monocultures. Tilling the land, ruining the microbiome, killing the soil and then farmers pile on fertilizers, insecticides, fungicides. Yet so many farmers resist change with a passion and dismiss the science.