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Ep. 287 – Jay Young – Using Compost Extracts

Working Cows - Regenerative Ranching to Maximize Profitability and Soil Health

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What Is the Normal Function of a Plant?

The way a plant functions in our unhealthy agricultural system is we don't tell up the ground. And so you have leaves you with bacteria dominant soils. So what a plant's normal function is, is a plant when you put a seed in the ground, it immediately starts to put out its root system and it wants to put out exudates. An exudate is the fine root hairs that you should see on a healthy root system. Those exudates secrete a glomulin, which is full of carbon and those carbonyl carbon that has sugar that's a sugar based form of carbon binds the soil together.

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