New Bio 5 Extractor - Farm Scale Compost Extract Updates for 2022

This is the trial run of our new extractor and we cover the changes we are making for this spring.

[@kylebruce6009]

Could you speak on the results you have seen on farm from the use of your extracts? Such as reduced need for fertilizer? Crop health etc?

[@gibbsfieldfarms]

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing!

[@bobhoyer]

Korey, awesome channel. Keep up the effort, I am heading in your direction with expanding our farm this year in Michigan and adding other income streams along with many of your topics you have discussed so far... Thanks for sharing.

[@josiamartens]

Great content! Keep it up Korey ;). Highly interesting to see real life implementation of the soil food web approach.

[@organiccleanfoodconnection]

Ive been using compost tea in my garden I make from grass leaves and my food scraps all organic. Each year my soil just gets better and better amazing plants. So awesome what you’re doing thank you for growing quality food

[@mirsidorov5112]

Check out Matt Powers, he works closely with Dr Elaine, he has a video on how to make great teas. The key is biology, so you need to add mycorrhizal fungi (Real Growers Recharge - Soil Microbe Superpack) along with some soluble kelp, soluble fish hydrolisate (with 10% fish oil), and you will see massive improvements literally within a week. Its all about the fungus/bacteria ratio, get it 1:1 and your plants will grow up to double the size/health/nutrition.

[@rustinpeace7466]

Wonderful stuff, once conventual guys understand the ROI on regenerative there will be a lot more compost extractors on farms.

[@audreybarnes6527]

I keep thinking I'd run the compost through a washing machine.

[@daunhejosampalan]

Nice

[@mirsidorov5112]

Also, presoaking the seeds, and spraying as close to the root as possible is magnitudes more effective than foliar spraying according to Dr Johnson and others.

[@krayziez]

The bio 5 Extractor is discontinued. Do you have any suggestions on an alternative?

[@titan6174]

Great video. What kind of pump runs that 40 nozzle that u where spraying extract out with? What size line? Can u make a video on that rig? I’m trying to set one up

[@michlreber]

Need this in Germany!

[@samfuller3309]

Great video. Could you tell me the model of the broadcast nozzle you used at the end. Looks like the ideal option.

[@koreyfauque7745]

Thanks 😊 Here is the place with that nozzle. They are out of New Zealand but have some inventory over here. www.chaossprings.co.nz/

[@KrazyKajun602]

ok, so get this good compost tea, but does the fungal biology not die once you go spray it on dry soil?

[@heatleynoble]

Have you done any trials with application on to ground where you leave alternate strips etc. to see any difference?

[@rexweston2227]

In your analyzing of the extract with a microscope, could you explain and identify what it is your seeing, what the different good biology looks like? great that you have something that works for you. I would imagine that you have lots and lots you could tell us.

[@mirsidorov5112]

Make sure to use a diaphragm pump and less than 12psi of pressure to save as much biology as possible.

[@michelbisson6645]

Don t forget to magnetically fraction your water...

[@michelbisson6645]

Wow better

[@barryyoung1711]

How are you cleaning the extractor, hoses, screen, etc. Follow an extraction?

[@ziggyd3114]

Fantastic info. Question about your Johnson-Su bioreactors, what’s the lowest temperature they get to in your shop over the winter? Also, do you have an opinion on leaving the reactors outside to freeze over the winter which will hopefully promote locally appropriate fungal activity that will over-winter better when transferred to the fields?

[@koreyfauque7745]

Our shop stays pretty much at around 65 degrees all winter. As far as leaving them out for us it doesn’t work because it gets so cold that they literally freeze solid so we don’t get any breakdown over the winter if we do that and it kills the worms. That being said that is an interesting point!!

[@ziggyd3114]

@@koreyfauque7745 same here, frozen solid - however, my thinking is that it’s the type of biology I need to promote to achieve a new equilibrium. Currently have one reactor indoor that’s ready now after a year and two more thawing outdoors for next year.

[@TrimbleFarmsEastTexas]

Do you have a link to this? Can't seem to find anything on the Google.

[@bobthrasher8226]

Do you add any food for the fungi or can you not get that much fungal growth in the short time for extraction?

[@koreyfauque7745]

We added granular humic through the air drill as fungal food and don’t add anything in the extract other than a little liquid humic. We can’t really get much fungal growth anyways in the short time from extraction till application and definitely don’t want food that would ramp up the bacteria as it would go anaerobic pretty fast without added air. That also seems to allow us to let this stuff sit for a couple days without any biofilm issues

[@AlissaLachance]

What size holes are in the sand sifter piece? Do you think it's hindering biology types and numbers that could be getting through into your fields? I've heard 400 mm size holes are a good size to keep sediment out but make sure you're getting the most out of your efforts biologically.

[@johnedward1984]

hi Jamie Fidler with Fidler Farms trying to spread extract on cattle pasture and 6700 want work .I am planning on ordering the nozzle from Chaos Springs . what size did you buy , what is the spread width, what is the gallons per acre , and what pressure are running? thank you in advance and thank you for sharing . If i can figure out how to share . i will share my adventures

[@koreyfauque7745]

Hey sorry this took so long. We got the 8 and 10 mm but only use the 8 as that is plenty big and plenty of water for what we are doing. I think we are pushing around 40 psi for pressure

[@koreyfauque7745]

I can’t seem to attach an image to this thread but could email you the nozzle chart if you want. It spreads about 35 ft I think

[@nomnommonsterr]

You should maybe take a sample that comes out of the nozzle. Won't it hurt fungai?

[@koreyfauque7745]

We have done that and it’s fine. You do tear up a few fungal stands but there are a lot left and also a lot of spores in this JS

[@christomeliala9185]

Compost tea improve biology, extract add nutrition. Is it correct?

[@henricksgl2299]

what does that extractor cost and where did you get the nozzle?

[@koreyfauque7745]

The extractor I think is around $13K now and the nozzle came from this place…. www.chaossprings.co.nz/

[@meganwolfe2185]

@@koreyfauque7745 How does this price compare to the previous model?

[@koreyfauque7745]

@@meganwolfe2185 it was about the same actually. I think $11000 at the time and probably more like $16000 or so now

[@tonywhinkle]

We just bought one, and it is the automated model. $21,000.

[@greighenning9091]

Cycling water continuously through a sand extractor can't be good for microbes. The sand extractor will no doubt extract all compost bigger than a grain of sand, so what's the point as the feedstock gets taken out of the process. Rather aerate all the material, and allow the screen/sieve to keep solids out of the final product.

[@I.am.Mumma.Bear.1]

So it’s compost tea not extract? I thought extract didn’t use air 🤔 Tea feeds the plant and extract feeds the soil ??

[@koreyfauque7745]

This would be extract. The only thing the air is used for is pulling the biology off the compost and then at that point it isn't aerated for fed and is put down in the ground or through our sprayer. If it was tea we would feed it and aerate it after this extraction process and multiply the biology for 24 hours or so.

[@paulkoehl2447]

How many lbs compost per 1000 gal batch?

[@koreyfauque7745]

Roughly 200 or 1 lbs per acre

[@mattshowalter2538]

@@koreyfauque7745 I have a liquid strip till bar, and am thinking of getting an extractor and running it in the the strip till unit. How many gallons per acre of extract would you use per acre? Would the biology still be viable if mixed with liquid fertilizer when applied? Final question. If I applied fert, and extract in the strips in the fall, would the biology still be there and work the following spring and growing season? Thanks for your response, and keep the videos coming. I really enjoy them. Matt in Iowa

[@koreyfauque7745]

@@mattshowalter2538 that would work great I bet although the fertilizer would almost certainly kill the biology so I would skip that part. We tried mixing low salt Alpine G-22 with our extract and it killed most of the upper level stuff like Amoeba and nematodes and appears to be pretty hard on the rest of it. As far as it still being alive the next year I’m sure that would be the case. We are actually finding it takes some time to the biology to start cycling stuff (I applied extract last year to some grass and didn’t see much then but it looks a lot better this year)

[@ronpalmer7260]

Then he should not complain when the satanic verses are also displayed. It is all or nothing.