Making Compost Extract with the Bio 5 Extractor. You need one of these!

[@tomtibbits4738]

Thanks for sharing your work with us. Last August at the no till conference at Burlington,CO I sat through a presentation about this. I dropped the ball and think about it again until this past week. I will be gathering up what I need to start building my Johnson Su bio reactor.

[@youngredangus6041]

That’s awesome! Did you see this one? 200 bushel corn with no Nitrogen and No phosphorus. Only compost extract from Johnson Su Bioreactor

[@youngredangus6041]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaPIqIZ6gq2Sd6s

[@tomtibbits4738]

Yes I did. I stumbled across your channel from Green cover blog about your 200 bu corn.

[@tbi1161]

Awesome stuff, thanks for doing the videos! Your the first one I've seen beside Dr Johnson do large scale farm usage, and it good to see how its done!

[@youngredangus6041]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWbTqnehmM6ZY6M This video shows how my neighbor does it. He has been doing it for several years now and has seen some great results with Corn

[@youngredangus6041]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWbTqnehmM6ZY6M Thanks TBI. The video in the comment is how my friends system is.

[@tbi1161]

@@youngredangus6041 Thanks !

[@joelmansson605]

This is good stuff! Please keep us updated on the fieldtrial. I want to start doing this on our farm!

[@youngredangus6041]

Sure thing Where is your farming operation located?

[@joelmansson605]

@@youngredangus6041 its in south Sweden. Right next to Denmark. I grow 500acres organically of which 70 acres are vegetables. Been working with soilhealth for a while but making compost and composttea is new!

[@youngredangus6041]

@@joelmansson605 Did you end up getting to see the result of the field trial?

[@marshagiere9894]

ditto : on keep us posted on the field trial. What happens to the field trial year two and three ? David Johnson demonstrated with the cotton field made a spectacular increase on year two and three. Year one appeared very skimpy compared to year three.

[@marshagiere9894]

a picture is worth a thousand words ! thanks for the video !

[@youngredangus6041]

Thanks for the encouragement!

[@austinsmith4914]

Awesome operation. Thank you for sharing. .

[@youngredangus6041]

Thanks for the encouragement!

[@youngredangus6041]

Do you farm Austin?

[@austinsmith4914]

@@youngredangus6041 No, I'm a gardener farming my food locally at home and sharing with friends, I support the farming community. I watched your video and others to glean ideas of how to use some farming practices in Square Foot Gardening . Presently I using the Johnson Su Compost Bioreactor to increase my productivity, plus I love the simplicity of filling and allowing it to mature instead of turning it frequently, saving my back. I just sent my soil samples to a certified soil lab technician from Elaine Ingham school to find out what going on in my bioreactor.They are located here in Texas. I will be posted a video showing how I'm going to make a JSCB extract on a smaller scale using some of your ideas from the Bioreactor 5. Thanks for all you do. Hope you can show later how you take that compost tote apart and put it together with zip ties for refilling or later harvesting in the future. Here's my link to JSCB playlist on my channel. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2STpXSMe52XjqM

[@sethromine1653]

This might be a dumb question but the seedlings you show around 3:00 look like they have commercial seed treatment on them. The stuff we get on our seed corn has the same pink color and is full of fungicides. Wouldn't that negatively affect the microbes you're introducing with the compost extract? Great stuff, thanks for sharing!

[@youngredangus6041]

Probably the most commonly asked. Question I get. so not dumb. the response the seed has is so strong that it responds anyway even with the fungicide I’m sure the fungicide has a negative response in someway, but not to negate the effects of the seed treatment

[@rustinpeace7466]

Beautiful stuff, can't wait to see your results.

[@youngredangus6041]

Thanks for the encouragement

[@elizabethblane201]

OK, great followup! I appreciate the blow-by-blow. I assume you're keeping good records of yields relative to different inputs; it seems like you are. We will all be interested to see your results.

[@MrFarva85]

Those roots are amazing on the composted plants! Does 'knee high by the the 4th' still apply when you're growing for silage?

[@youngredangus6041]

Does around here

[@youngredangus6041]

Thanks for the encouragement

[@allendoerksen5532]

Good evening Jay I m into regenerative agriculture, and find you videos very. interesting. This extractor does it just speed up the soil health process. In our area it is recommended to use a lot potash. What's your opinion on that?

[@youngredangus6041]

We don’t get recommendations for applying potash. I would look into doing a complete soil digestion test that I recommended in the video “Solving the Phosphorus Problem.” Then asking Lance if he thinks that you have access potassium in your soil. We had 9000lbs of potassium an acer. In our soils. That is what Potash is used for isn’t it?

[@jimd1617]

thanks!

[@pinodifiore7896]

Follow your videos great Job!! Is there any chance of getting plans to make an extractor?

[@youngredangus6041]

There is a lot that goes into it. Im sure you could make your own though.

[@youngredangus6041]

I don’t currently have plans to make one

[@pinodifiore7896]

@@youngredangus6041 its that i have no idea how It works but if you can explain It Better i would sort It out. Thanks from a kiwi farmer

[@ksbanjomd]

what is the shelf life of the extract once its made? Does it need to be applied right away?

[@youngredangus6041]

Depends on the time of year, what the temperature is outside if you can keep oxygen on it. I’d say 5 days to a week.

[@stevebowman421]

Was always told that excessive bubbling reduces biology numbers would a stirring action be better? The other thing we found here, was that a biological program with less N was more frost resistant.

[@youngredangus6041]

I have been told by Rion Naus and Zach Wright that a storing action is better as well. That’s cool about having a higher resistance to frost. Where is your farm?

[@lukerusk2537]

Could the bio 5 be put in furrow dry? Thinking with insecticide boxes? Maybe have to modify them

[@jimlewis1992]

Do you find the wood chips or any bigger material in your Johnson Su compost difficult to clean out of this extractor? Will they fall out of the hole at the bottom of the cone?

[@youngredangus6041]

Yes it plugs the holes in the bottom

[@jimlewis1992]

@@youngredangus6041 Is there 3" threading on the bottom of the cone? I was thinking a guy could hook a 3" trash pump to it with a quick coupler and "suck" all the gunk out of there and discharge it into a tractor bucket. I want something like this but these are on a long back order. If I made my own I would definitely put threads on the bottom and maybe even 4" to try and make clean out simple.

[@youngredangus6041]

@@jimlewis1992 Bottom is 4’

[@jimlewis1992]

@@youngredangus6041 I farm 1000 acres in Manitoba Canada. Want to make a bunch of Johnson Su bios this spring so they will be ready for spring 2024. This year will be using pre bought compost. Already have the IBC totes and am planning to do Kyle Schnells method. Planning to use insulated sea cans to store them. My issue is the extraction process. Doesn't look like I'm going to be able to get one of these extractors. Other options/homebuilds look very slow, I'm sure you have tried them before landing on this awesome Bio 5 extractor. So here's my idea. Leave the finished compost in the IBC tote, fill it with water, shoot compressed air into the bottom valve to aerate and agitate the compost. Use a IBC tote lid with holes (like what's in the bottom of the Kyle Schnell style reactors) to essentially "french press" the solids back down into the bottom of the tote. Could bolt some 30 mesh and a long handle onto the "press". Then sump pump liquid extract through one or two hydrocyclones on the way out to the nurse tank similar to what they are doing with the bio 5 extractor. This idea just hit me today, seems like it would be pretty fast as then you can just deal with the extracted compost later. Thanks for your videos they are very useful for coming up with ideas for my own farm.

[@youngredangus6041]

@@jimlewis1992 I think you would use up a lot of compost for not as much extraxt

[@DennisKenneybees]

What kind of fresh water are you using, ie city chlorinated water, distilled water, well water?

[@youngredangus6041]

Well water. Our farm is 24 miles from town.

[@DennisKenneybees]

@@youngredangus6041 So what kind of water does your well produce? Many of our wells here in east Texas have a lot of sulfur and iron.

[@youngredangus6041]

@@DennisKenneybees We don’t have to deal with sulfur. I’m not sure about iron but it doesn’t have hight amounts of anything I’m concerned with

[@jeltewiersma7446]

What is the mesh size of the ‘bucket’ the compost is put in?

[@youngredangus6041]

50 mesh screen

[@jeltewiersma7446]

@@youngredangus6041 thanks! Very inspiring video’s! We already use composttea, but looks like extract with Johnson-Su bioreactor is better. Keep up the good work!

[@liamdavis5431]

The Soil Works website says that they’ve stopped production of the Bio 5 extractor. Is there a comparable product or schematics on the market?

[@youngredangus6041]

[e-mail] Email me when you get a chance

[@ceruttieros]

Wow Thx for this kind of content :) It woul'd be possible know the size of the big filter (mesh) inside the tank for the extraction and also the size of the filter (mesh) that you use befor charge the tank for applicazion? thank you again for the video :D

[@youngredangus6041]

I believe they’re all 50 mesh and they go through 3 50 mesh filters before the tank

[@ceruttieros]

@@youngredangus6041 thx so much :) After i did the Soil food web course, now I have to understund all the practical side of this magnific metod of microrganism. Also the ratio of the application sound my a bit diffucult... if I understund well you apply about 1 pounds of compost per acre diluited in 20 gal per acre?

[@lukerusk2537]

Or maybe dry fertilizer boxes?

[@kaiunruh9498]

Estimated cost of extractor?

[@youngredangus6041]

Sorry about that. I missed this question I think they are at 13k now

[@moedog5087]

One question Dad came up with: Does the extraction process leave behind sediment that will settle out? He's worried about clogging things up in the planter. What do guy's do that grow soybeans?

[@youngredangus6041]

Use 50 mesh screens and you will be fine. I don’t grow soybeans if you email me I can get you a couple of people that plant soybeans with extract

[@moedog5087]

@@youngredangus6041 it doesn't settle in the tanks if you have a few days of planting delay?

[@youngredangus6041]

@@moedog5087 We havnt had an issue with it It will go anaerobic if it sits in the tanks too long

[@coledickinson874]

Did you feel the bio 5 product is a better product than what you can make on the farm? Definitely a lot easier than making it yourself.

[@youngredangus6041]

There isn’t anything living in the bio 5. It has a ton of fungal spores in it and is full of humics. I think they are good to mix together

[@superpamant6228]

Great video ! What's the name of the machinery at min 1:50 ?

[@youngredangus6041]

soilworksllc.com/bio-5-extractor/

[@youngredangus6041]

This or something else?

[@superpamant6228]

This one, thanks 🤗

[@austinsmith4914]

I won't need to see a video to see how you cut the bioreactor for emptying. Somehow I missed this video "How to build and fill a bioreactor quickly. Similar to a Johnson SU Bioreactor" at kzbin.info/www/bejne/fn6ql5WBrKqlpac. I saw how your team made a top and cut the bioreactor to enlarge it. I don't need to enlarge it, but cut my existing one and put on a removable top, so I can get to the compost after it matures and has dropped to the lower level of the totes. Also, I probably make a top from cattle panel or use PVC pipe filled with gravel to use as the frame for the top. I use gravel, so the wind don't blow it off since the bioreactor is outdoor. I would attach the cloth with zip ties or snap clamps. www.snapclamp.com/ You use those zip ties a lot. Awesome. I have a thread on my bioreactor that contains some of your work on the square foot garden forum showing my journey. squarefoot.forumotion.com/t22422-the-sfg-journey-johnson-su-bioreactor-for-composting-no-turning. Will you be doing a video on how you empty you're bioreactors? Thanks again for sharing.

[@youngredangus6041]

Yeah that’s a great idea I’ll put a video like that together this summer

[@youngredangus6041]

I’ll check out your forum

[@austinsmith4914]

@@youngredangus6041 awesome!

[@RC-om9nh]

Nice beard

[@youngredangus6041]

I do what i can

[@ladyslipperland]

Compost tea

[@trinidadmoncada2429]

I do not see it as incomplete, and that must be necessary, unless you do not share the part where it enriches the extract. If you do not do it definitively it is very poor what we must comply with these methods in the soil or larger volumes of your compound are required.

[@youngredangus6041]

I’m sorry I don’t understand your comment

[@TheStayAtHomeDad]

🙋🏻‍♂️