Using Brix Testing as a Farm Management Tool

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Using Brix Testing as a Farm Management Tool

Testing Brix levels in your pasture, fruits and vegetables is a handy tool for not only giving you a quality assessment but as a management tool for assessing your practices. So, what is Brix?

Adolf Brix was a German chemist in the 1800’s who first figured out how to measure the density of plant juices by floating a hydrometer in them. This was of great value to wine growers as they could then figure out which grapes would make the best wine.

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Boost Your On-Farm Fertility With Compost and You'll Never Look Back

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Boost Your On-Farm Fertility With Compost and You'll Never Look Back

Nurturing the soil biology is crucial is you want healthy soil that will support healthy plant growth, healthy animals and healthy people, and the absolute best way to get started with fueling your soil biology is with compost. 

Compost has been a basic component of agriculture for at least 4500 years, with the first recorded documents being the clay tablets of Akkadian in 2700 B.C.! I would call this a time tested practice, and who would want to argue with an Akkadian?

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