paddy blake

Farming Piemontese cows,with Organic tillage using Biodynamic principles. Scatter of kids about too.

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@brianrushe81 @IFAmedia Thanks Brian, no balls dropped during your term. Hope to see you back in the game soon.

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@garrettmalt Nice bita tractor porn there Gar 😉

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@ByrneAgri 😂😂

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@KevinoHanlon12 You may bang it on the santa letter Kevin 😉

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@garrettmalt Great news lads, we have a baby Douglas too, hardy types!

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@paddyfromnobber @seandineen4 Fine job, does it have an antibacterial agent to prevent moss

[Andrew McGuire @agronomistag]

Increasing soil organic matter is difficult. How difficult?
Here are the numbers:
To increase SOM 1%➡️1.1% (=11 tons in top 6"), with 1%/yr loss, requires ~6.7 tons/ac biomass = 223 corn or 239 bu/ac wheat crops.
See my calculations, do your own...https://t.co/L2NZzpIXg8

[paddy blake @paddyblake2]

@robertlufkinmd What is this diet called?

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@FredVLarsen Organic situ ?

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@KevinoHanlon12 Did she leave you outside for a few nights along the way Kevin 😍. Here's to the next 20.!

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@PSliepen @Matt3ngland @garfordrobocrop Is compaction at 6mts an issue?

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@KevinoHanlon12 What is she kevin ? Breeding wise

[Caroline Brady @59978e81e467490]

@NewstalkFM @DuncanStewart4

[paddy blake @paddyblake2]

@Shalvanstown @WhitesOats Good job John 👏. Looking fairly clean , weeds much of an issue this year?

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@KevinoHanlon12 Sorry to hear that Kevin 😳

[Jerry Hall @grasslandJerry]

Wow, I didn't realize that inter-seeding was a thing back then. Stumbling onto historical research on green manure crops is what got me interested in cover crops. I realized we left a lot of tools behind in the haste to scale up agriculture

[Nebraska Natural Resources Conservation Service @NebraskaNRCS]

Our West Point office came across this photo from 1960. The caption says, "... (farmer) drills in a cover crop of rye and vetch in late August each year. Drill was built in farm shop. This cropping system has been used for the past 7 years. Yields have increased each year.” #TBT

[Soil for Humanity @soilforhumanity]

#DYK -> The #bacteria & #organisms found in #healthysoil are also found in the human gut. Consuming food grown in healthy soil can contribute to our own long-term health by maintaining a balance of vital microbes.

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