Ryan Gibbs, Hopkinton, Iowa, no-tiller and owner of Gibbsfield Ag, shows how he makes compost extract for production agriculture fields. He says the extract, made by washing dry compost, applied as a liquid in furrow is the equivalent of using a few thousand pounds of dry compost per acre.

The economic realities of farms create the need for these practices to be profitable. Exploring opportunities to increase their yield and profit and minimize production risks is something farmers are regularly exploring.

Mass flow is where nutrients in soil solution move toward the root as the plant takes up and transpires water through the crop canopy. Consider how dry weather affects the plant root system. Root growth will slow in dry soils, the situation we are now experiencing in the upper soil depths.