Organic fertiliser to improve the soil

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Sun, 09/14/2014 - 12:58 #1

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Belltones
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Organic fertiliser to improve the soil

Is there a way to improve the soil for grazing without using products containing mercury etc. is there an organic fertiliser that we can add that will start healing the soil, and start a positive regeneration process for the long term benefit of both the animals (mostly cattle) and the land?

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Sun, 09/14/2014 - 18:13 #2
rmcpb
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Do a search on permaculture. We throw out so many nutrients. Try a worm farm on your food scraps, dilute the worm wee and spray on your land. Compost scraps and make a compost tea and spray that on your land. Practice cell grazing. Try chop and drop techniques. Lots of things to search. Enjoy your searching :)
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Mon, 09/15/2014 - 18:15 #3
admin
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Hi Rob,
 
You have me intrigued, what is chop and drop?
 
Cheers,
 
Barb
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Mon, 09/15/2014 - 18:16 #4
admin
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Barb,
 
Its literally what it says. When you prune anything you just chop it into small bits and drop them so the nutrients are recycled where they came from. More commonly practiced in garden or orchard setups but a green manure crop would be a broadacre type of example.
 
Cheers
Rob
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Mon, 09/15/2014 - 18:17 #5
admin
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Hi Rob,

Thanks for that. I was a bit puzzled, now I understand what you mean.

Barb

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Sun, 09/21/2014 - 17:36 #6
charlie
Last seen: 12/26/2018 - 09:21
Joined: 05/31/2011 - 09:44

Hi Belltones,

Welcome to the forum.

There are a couple of good contacts in our farming directory who supply and spread organic fertiliser. Depending on your location, one supplier is located in Queensland and the other South Coast of NSW.

http://farmstyle.com.au/directory?tid=134

Regards,

Charlie

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