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No-Till Growing: Vegetable Production

Posted by Daniel Schuurman on May 24, 2018

There have been significant decreases in insects and diseases, including: greatly reduced brassica flea beetle, absence of root maggot in rutabaga and turnip, no cabbage losses to black rot and much less leek leaf disease, among others. Though a little more effort is required to prepare the beds and make the appropriate compost, overall there are great savings because of much higher yields, dramatically reduced weed control, reduced irrigation (including no need for a drip system), as well as a significant reduction in tractor time.

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We are all about the solutions

Posted by Daniel Schuurman on May 15, 2018

I know that at Biologix we share a lot of articles about the problems with the conventional farming systems, but I really hope that we also get the message across that we are here to help with the solutions also. Every year we work with new farmers and growers that want to move away from the conventional chemical, artificial fertiliser based systems. Every year we hear back from the existing customers that are amazed at the continued improvement in their soils and their results, even 5 years on. We are growers also, and we follow the biological principles, not because...

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The real evidence that synthetic nitrogen degrades soil.

Posted by Daniel Schuurman on May 15, 2018

A particularly stark set of graphs traces soil organic carbon (SOC) in the surface layer of soil in the Morrow plots from 1904 to 2005. SOC rises steadily over the first several decades, when the fields were fertilized with livestock manure. After 1967, when synthetic nitrogen became the fertilizer of choice, SOC steadily drops.

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No-Till Growing: Vegetable Production

We are all about the solutions

The real evidence that synthetic nitrogen degrades soil.

How Farming can save our planet

Organic Soil versus Conventionally farmed soils