Konkuk University, Seoul · October 5–7, 2016
A day of talks in Seoul, then two days on the farms. 23 talks, three languages. Master Cho's students from ten countries showed what natural farming did on their fields, from Afghan potatoes to Hawaiian macadamias. Every talk is translated, checked line by line, and boiled down to what was tested and what happened.
Also on the record: Hilo 2015
2 talks on “legumes”
A one-season peanut trial at Konkuk's Paju test farm compared solid Microbes (IMO4), liquid Microbes (IMO4 in water), commercial EM and a water-only control. Both IMO treatments gave more pods, heavier seed, far more root nodules and higher soil microbe counts. Solid IMO4 gave the top yield, 2,816 kg/ha, against 1,904.6 for EM and 1,674.8 for the control.
A short photo report from a 2016 soybean plot at Konkuk, grown side by side with natural farming and conventional farming. Conventional weeds were killed with herbicide at 50 days; the natural farming weeds were pulled by hand. The natural farming plot bloomed three days earlier (July 19 vs July 22) and was yellowing toward harvest at 90 days while the conventional plot was still green. No yield or other numbers were shown.
Found Natural farming plot bloomed July 19, conventional July 22
