Farming additive helping to boost productivity, carbon for Nicholsons

Steve Nicholson and his family are working to build their soil carbon, throughout their farm, with a new addition helping to make that happen.

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00:00Faramate, this is how we apply the loam's endophyte for our carbon project.

00:05It's a metering mechanism, so the top lifts off, you put the endophyte in.

00:12This particular one is 50 hectares to a fill.

00:16What it does is it draws the air out of the airline of the air seeder.

00:20It has a patented system inside it to allow it to monitor and meter that out.

00:25It goes through a venturi, it blows it out, excuse me, out the other side, down that tube there,

00:33and it takes it right to the very back of the air seeder, where it blows it in here,

00:41over the top of the fan, into the fan of the air seeder, and back into the soil.

00:46So it actually injects the endophyte into the furrow as you're sowing.

00:53And it's extremely accurate.

00:54But we can get rates down as low as 20 grams per hectare.

01:03There's all the little fibrous roots.

01:06This is what we're trying to grow.

01:09You can see them right down here even, that deep down already.

01:14These are faba beans, using an endophyte underneath them.

01:18We've got beautiful root development already starting, healthy, deep.

01:22We're trying to get this big root biomass developing.

01:25These are only four weeks old.

01:27We're trying to get this big root mass here.

01:29We're trying to get this big root mass.

01:31So I'm going to get it.

01:31I'm going to get this big root mass here.

01:32This is a big part of the big root también.

01:33You can see it.

01:34This is what I need.

01:34I'm going to have to be a top of the root mass.

01:35This is a big part of the root mass.

01:36I'm going to get this big root mass, and it's my own thing that it's kind of a big root mass.