Could earthworms be farmer’s best friend for the season ahead?
Here we are continuing the theme of enhancing nutrient cycling for fertiliser efficiency and farm resilience (see our previous post). When it comes to this you can’t go past the humble earthworm! In the context of… well let’s face it, there is no bad time to have a free underground workforce feeding and keeping your plants happy and soil fertile. But in this present moment, with fertiliser and fuel shortages and price hikes and not a great seasonal forecast for many areas, earthworms might just be a farmer’s best friend.
This video provides a short introduction:
For more earthworm facts check out our blog “The Power of Earthworms“
For a deeper dive, this paper is a good one: Earthworm services for cropping systems. A review (full text available). This paper includes great information on farming practices that promote earthworm populations on farm.
If you would like to give Biocast a try to stimulate your in-field earthworm population, head to our shop or get in touch. We have customers who haven’t seen earthworms for 20 years excited to report their return after using Biocast! We can’t guarantee this as an outcome of course but it does seem to help.
If you would like to learn how to make your farm’s own vermicompost and enhance the work of the worm, check out our upcoming Farm Scale Vermicomposting training!