How many Johnson Su Bioreactor do I need to build for my farm?

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[@jameskoebke5776]

Jim from Mass. Keep it up, this topic is the most important technology that has hit the ag sector since before the big war. High inputs are killing all forms of ag and what you’re doing to help farmers and ranchers understand is priceless! Thanks to your dad!

[@Oldfart9]

Thanks Jerry

[@janetjohnson998]

Ah you answered what I asked in another video. Thank you for your videos. This novice appreciates your vulnerability.

[@kurt8386]

I like that you ask permission to use the skidloader. And, thanks to your dear father for giving you the nod!

[@jknelson82]

Thanks for putting up with all of us soil nerds, Jerry!

[@jknelson82]

Also, would a foliar application help with head scab and ergot?

[@youngredangus6041]

@@jknelson82 I don’t have experience with those but if they have to do with parasitic fungi then yes

[@kelleyboles]

I have always wondered how soil health worked at scale. Fascinating! Keep up the great work!

[@youngredangus6041]

Thanks Kelley!

[@davidloesch]

So cool to see a farmer at your scale using bioreactors!

[@youngredangus6041]

Thanks!

[@JGDT5559]

Thanx Jerry 🇿🇦

[@joelschanbacher]

Thanks Jerry!

[@austinsmith4914]

Thanks Jerry for your support

[@mirsidorov5112]

Thanks a bunch Jerry!!

[@austinsmith4914]

Thanks Jay Great info

[@anajinn]

Thanks, Gerry.

[@randalmoroski1184]

Thanks Jerry..!

[@brummell1988]

Thanks Jerry. Your a champ

[@malcolmyoung7866]

Just subbed. I don’t farm but have a genuine interest in regenerative farming/soil health and Vermicomposting. A JS Bioreactor in next in the cards for me. Everyday is a learning day and anything that helps farmers do a better job doing what they do and keeping a balance with what’s good for the land gets my vote.. thanks for posting and sharing you knowledge and experiences..

[@Oldfart9]

I'm preaching the story of compost extract ,Dr White says plants can break down the cell walls of different fungi to get nutrients

[@jackbootsman5672]

Thanks Jerry.

[@eddiemachines2885]

Thanks Jerry! And keep it up Jay. You are real, you’re giving us on farm hands on honest information. Most soil health “experts” make their living preaching regenerative agriculture, with little to no personal farming investment.

[@ziggypop6682]

Keep rocking Jerry! 🤘👍 Keep rocking Jay! ❤

[@erbauungstutztaufgnade1875]

Thank you for your good work - God bless you bro!

[@youngredangus6041]

Thanks

[@elliotscarffe2111]

Kilograms/ hectare and pounds/acre are very close conversions

[@ThomasWozney]

Thank you for the very informative videos! I am wondering if you could share what brand of moisture sensor you would recommend for testing JS bio reactor moisture. Also wondering if you setup a automatic watering system to water the bins and what brand of equipment that you would recommend to do this.

[@aaronfite2757]

Hi Jay, recent subscriber to your show, thanks for all the work and doing it in layman’s terms! Some questions; do you mix your exctract in with your regular fertilizer application? Or would that clog up a traditional fertile pump? do you have a separate pump and tank on your drill and planter for the extract in furrow application? Do you have any resources on getting composite extract distributor setup on a no till drill and/or my planter? Thanks Aaron

[@JK-gr3sg]

Hey thanks Jerry for putting up with a Videos helps us other poor souls out. Thanks Jaay for the insightful information. I’m curious if you’re putting extract on seed that has been treated already? If I try to treat a triple stack corn won’t it just kill the extract?

[@pcl598]

Thanks Jerry, Do you recommend this on pasture? Good luck with the sale

[@halbertking2683]

Do you filter your water ? I put a filter on my garden hose . I have a small back yard garden . I noticed when I filtered my garden water , I started to get more mushrooms around the garden without even trying .

[@southernblues]

I was planning to put extract in furrow for corn but my corn seed is treated with the normal fungicide insecticide programs. Substituting extract for humic/fulvic and sugar. Is your corn seed treated or untreated when you do infurrow extract?

[@Oldfart9]

In Green cover seed video with Dr white at the end he says compost extract may help but you have to experiment,how do you prove endophytes

[@PhillipPeak-kz9jz]

Thanks Jerry!! And Jay, for sure, keep it up! Have you had anyone use this on soybeans? Just curious if there's anyone out there that have done tests on soybeans, like you have with corn?

[@youngredangus6041]

Glen is. I’ll see if he will comment on this and you can ask him.

[@larrysiders1]

Have you experimented with spraying the Compost Material with J-S Extract... as you build up a new J-S REACTOR? That is... innoculating the organic matter as it goes into a new REACTOR? When I inoculate large piles of moist, partially composted debris with lots of Mushroom Mycelium (from old mushroom bags full of spent growth medium) ...the whole pile is infused with the fungal mycelim in just a few weeks (if the pile is kept moist). I suspect that innoculating a J-S Reactor (a layer at a time) while it's being built would do 2 things: 1.) Make the Reactor break down organic matter much faster...finishing a lot faster than 12 to 14 months. And 2.) Result in finished compost with WAY MORE fungal spores (bacteria is never a problem). In a similar vein... adding nutrients specific to microorganisms (E.g. Molasses for Bacteria and Fish Hydrolysate for Fungi) should really speed things up. Just adding molasses and fish hydrolosate increases microbial activity in dry unfinished compost about 100 fold (so controlling heat would be required). Both bacteria and fungal reproduction rates are limited mainly by the availability of readily available food. The microorganisms would multiply rapidly when well fed with a solution of compost tea... then there would be 1000's of times more organisms available to break down the remaining uncomposted material. I would still add worms to the Compost as soon as temperatures permit... because worms make miracle compounds that assist plant growth and that assist bacteria and fungi in extracting and acquiring Micronutrients from the Soil.

[@anajinn]

I see that you are using half a water container. Is it necessary to remove the plastic? Can you please tell me the measurements of the container you are using. I think it might be much easier for me to use one of these. How do you empty a big container like that please?

[@TheMws1]

What do you think about 1/2" hardware cloth on the bottom over a wooden pallet ?I am about to build my first and doing it for 10 acres of deer food plots and my garden .

[@youngredangus6041]

I think that will work. When you go to harvest it I’d flip it onto a tarp or something

[@deanrhodus1343]

What's the name of the compost company in Hutch? Thanks in advance for your time.

[@outlander330cc]

Has anyone tried spraying foliar on corn and soybeans as a replacement for fungicide?

[@jeffreythiel5315]

bio- 5 reactors? Hmm 🤔 I’m interested. Can u send me a link 🙌🏽

[@johnnylaan2775]

You should call it JOHNSON SYRUP..... thinking you're onto something, no offense to Miss SU..... lol, love it

[@youngredangus6041]

Lol

[@pickone8142]

Thanks G man 😂

[@jeffreythiel5315]

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[@nielscorfield4163]

Thanks for this May I ask why the ratio is 1lb per 4 galls?

[@youngredangus6041]

It’s one I got from soil works and it is a ratio that worked well for us.

[@nielscorfield4163]

@@youngredangus6041 Thanks. Would it be possible to see this written up, including water rate? Just to avoid confusion. Will do the conversion to metric and then ratio 🙏

[@montymiller4966]

has anyone ever tried to process cow manure compost through a pellet mill ? would the heat and pressure produced by the mill be detrimental to all the little critters in the compost ? all the good stuf ?if it were possible then we could spread the compost with a fertalizer spreader !

[@youngredangus6041]

I have no idea on that ine

[@corannafarms1752]

Con you treat corn seed whith Johnson +su when it comes treated already?

[@youngredangus6041]

Yes

[@corannafarms1752]

Thanks men

[@Oldfart9]

I'm not criticizing, just trying to understand, I use vermicompost extract ever week and at 5 to1 dilution it will burn your plant ,at 15 to 1 works great,so I think I'm getting humic and folic acids ,minerals and biology for the plants.Sorry for the ramblings of a old man with to much time watching utube

[@youngredangus6041]

I didn’t think you where arguing The video I shared I feel is really insightful on the endophytes

[@Oldfart9]

How are you getting endophts? There are certain endophyts for specific fescue and clovers ecet.Mr Johnson said he's getting saprofitic fungi in his bio reactor only. My thoughts are with cover crop and crop roots the saprofitic fungi are braking down roots making air ways and carbon available for the plants.

[@youngredangus6041]

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[@youngredangus6041]

Their are bacteria and fungal Endophytes that penetrate the seed. If you watch the video of James White I shared he covers those in the video

[@SK-gc7xv]

Do you have these numbers written down in some kind of chart anywhere? You kinda jumped around, stopped and started, and I'm new at this, so you lost me.

[@youngredangus6041]

1lbs of Johnson Su for 4 gallons of water 8 gallons an acer if I’m doing in furrow with corn or sorghum Treating seed 16 0z for 50lbs of sorghum 70 gallons for 500 bushels of wheat Foliar We do 20 gallons an acer

[@DeanWAnderson]

My guess is compost tea will do a better job on stripe rust than extract for two reasons - 1) teas possess greater numbers of microbes and 2) as they multiply with the addition of oxygen and food in the brewing cycle they create glues which enables them to stick to foliage better than extract. With foliar teas you get both more coverage and better effect.

[@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb]

Problem with teas on larger scale is you need to apply immediately or biology will die. - it's logistically difficult to do, so that's why extracts are preferred. Small gardens can brew 5 gallons of tea, put in a backpack sprayer and do an acre pretty fast. Not so easy on 6000 acres....

[@jimlewis1992]

Another issue with Teas is that you don't know which microbes you are exploding with whatever you use for food for the microbes. Dr David Johnson directly says that he prefers extract due to this issue. Basically, know what you don't know. Let nature populate the microbes it needs from your compost rather than exploding populations without knowing what you're doing.

[@DeanWAnderson]

@@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb Yes. Agreed. True to an extent. You can keep tea alive with adequate air, but not for days as the bloom of microbes will need sustained food. You will lose a percentage for sure without the addition of more food, but given the gigantic amount of microbes in teas because of the addition of food and oxygen, there's a trade-off for sure if you lose some. In either case, tea or extract, a limiting factor as scale is the equipment available, both size of brewer and sprayer. BTW, the jostling of a sprayer will oxygenate the microbes adequately so no loss getting to the fileds from the brew facility, even at 6000 acres. Whether spraying extract or teas, the challenge of volume will be the same - equipment. 6000 acres is alot to spray anything.

[@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb]

@@DeanWAnderson Agreed. In a perfect world, tea would be a lot better application. But the problem is building a facility that can brew tea fast enough - doesn't make economic sense to build something that can brew thousands of gallons that's only used a few times a year. Even that relatively small Bio5 extractor that Jay uses likely costs well over $10K. But they upside is they can make multiple 500 gallon extracts quickly - probably as fast as they can spray. Can't do that with a compost tea. So you trade practicality/economics vs efficacy.

[@DeanWAnderson]

@@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb Yup. Fully agree. You've issued the challenge to manufacturers. Let's see who steps up with some new, more efficient and cost effective technology!?!

[@jimmydykes7961]

Where in the hell am I going to get enough compost to make enough of this stuff for 2000 acres?and then 20 gallons to spray over?

[@youngredangus6041]

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[@jimmydykes7961]

@@youngredangus6041 imagine shipping costs to alabama

[@youngredangus6041]

@@jimmydykes7961 Still cheaper than spraying fungicide We have cut out Nitrogen bill in 1/2 and we doing apply phosphorus anymore. Also I know a guy in Arkansas that sells some. Unless you are just a hater and you are only trolling me. Sorry I usually can’t tell the difference. I try to assume people’s good intentions.

[@jimmydykes7961]

@@youngredangus6041 not a hater nor trolling g you...I'm always looking for ways to improve what I do,but at the same time looking for ways that are practical and economical.been on no till with cover crops for four years now,and think maybe a little later on,IF I can find compost make some extract and experiment on my garden...didnt mean to sound disrespectful

[@youngredangus6041]

@@jimmydykes7961 Email me and I’ll get you the number for the guy who sells it from Arkansas

[@trinidadmoncada2429]

Hello my respects, but I think it is a path of processes that leaves you many emotions, but the use of time that is so valuable is not the best.

[@akinbodebakare545]

Thanks Jerry

[@jeffschmucker1640]

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[@lukemooney8790]

Thanks Jerry!