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Nutrient Cycling in Agriculture
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I would like some advice on nutrient cycling involving mushrooms from anyone with ideas.

An example of nutrient cycling is sort of like

-grow mushrooms on wheat straw
-feed the mycelium to the cattle
-use cattle poop for making compost
-feed compost to plants and mushrooms again
-loop in around in a circle and make as many profitable products as possible

My personal preference is working horticulture and mycology and my best friend has 40 cows and a bull so we're already working in it.

The point of this is we want to do the work and write the reports to submit a request for a Small Business Innovation Research Grant from the USDA

Thanks for any ideas or information you can add about nutrient cycling for a profit or just improvement of the environment both will get me a grant


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Re: Nutrient Cycling in Agriculture [Re: Psychoslut]
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Make sure you use a diverse mix of cover crop species. Include grasses, legumes, and brassicas. Be mindful of the depth of roots of the species you use. Make sure to include species that will throw roots super deep down to get nutrients that are deep to get up to the surface.

Also make sure you cultivate earth worm species.

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Re: Nutrient Cycling in Agriculture [Re: AlChemicalResearch]
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Thank you that sounds good we need worms on the farm for feeding the chickens also. I basically have a degree in agriculture I have one semester left because I'm studying algebra on my own before class starts so I get a good grade. So I completely understand I need deep root plants and worms or ants to pull nutrients to the top.

We have 40 cows and a bull
30 ducks
150 Chickens
15 turkey
A pond of duckweed
A huge compost pile
Access to cheap $30 round bales of shredded wheat straw
We are working with 10 acres of land on the farm plus lots of hay field im not sure how much but it more than feeds the cows

I want to grow plants, bugs, mushrooms, make market grade compost
Bugs for livestock feed and selling to people for pet trade
Edible and medicinal mushrooms

AI says I'm allowed to feed my livestock 10 percent of their diet in duckweed and ten percent in mushroom mycelium on wheat straw

Helping my farmer feed his cows high nutrients food is why I got the job here and feeding the animals pays all my rent, food, utilities etc and he's giving me an opportunity to stay in school to the highest level I can possibly achieve

Thanks a million man if you have more ideas now that you have more information that would be cool. I'm constantly watching all the YouTube videos and talking to a very expensive company AI


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[quote]KristiMidocean said:
Good now thats clear.WHO FUCKING CARES. If I am fat u all keep pointing it out like its suppose to be a secret.LIke u really have nothing better to do then make fat jokes. If o know its like I do I know yall can come up with NEW AND BETTER SHIT . This shit is old and boring . I left in the first place cause this shit got boring not because of the fat jokes . Fat jokes dont bother me but seriously its old[/quote]

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Re: Nutrient Cycling in Agriculture [Re: Psychoslut]
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I would keep the mushroom compost separate from the regular compost cause its soooo much better than normal compost. You can sell that by itself.

If you're gonna have a pond for duckweed, I'd also grow foxtail in there to get a silica source as well.

Also think about strategies to get trace metals to get into your fields. The deep root systems help, but it takes time. You may have to just buy some rock dust and apply it in your fields. It'll stay around for a while cause they're are not extremely soluble so they'll stay around for a while.


The biggest thing you want to do is increase the CEC of your soil. Fixing carbon is a great way to do this. Biochar is the best way to do this. This isn't persistent though, so you'll need to keep adding it year after year. Clay is great for this as well, but if you don't incorporate it correctly, it can create pans which will be hard to break, but this is pretty hard to do. You'd have to add ridiculous amounts of clay to make this mistake. But in terms of importance CEC is the most important factor in nutrient accumulation.

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Re: Nutrient Cycling in Agriculture [Re: AlChemicalResearch]
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Yes sir thank you. You don't even know how many hours I've sat listening to college professors talk about cation exchange capacity lol. Now I get to use it in real life.

Buying rock dust and applying it is not an issue. We have excavators, skid steers, dump trucks all that.

I'll research on my AI how to make bio char and carbon thanks.

I'll take pics and show them after I get some fully colonized mushrooms and a fully colonized pond of duckweed


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[quote]KristiMidocean said:
Good now thats clear.WHO FUCKING CARES. If I am fat u all keep pointing it out like its suppose to be a secret.LIke u really have nothing better to do then make fat jokes. If o know its like I do I know yall can come up with NEW AND BETTER SHIT . This shit is old and boring . I left in the first place cause this shit got boring not because of the fat jokes . Fat jokes dont bother me but seriously its old[/quote]

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