Anyone ever plant earthworms

From years of AA fertilizing, I have none left!

You do know that earthworms are NOT native to the Americas. Tis a fact.

If you are referring to earthworms in the fields, then it is not likely they would thrive under existing soil conditions. You might try starting a small worm bed, and as they increase, try "planting" some in a field to see if they can survive.

Well, wikipedia says this. There are roughly 180 species of earthworms in North America. Wiki says one third are non native. The most common ones we see like night crawlers and red wrigglers are not native to the US. Other scientists say in the eastern US there are currently 17 native species and 13 European species of earthworms. There is a large bunch of critters & worms in topsoil we are not able to see. Have heard of companies that sell earthworms to farmers but I have never used them. We have seen plenty of middens (burrows)in our cropland fields in spring time mostly in no till or minimum till fields.

Pile up a good sized mound of manure on any area where you think there may be some left, cover it with a tarp - you'll have thousands of them to experiment with within six months.

I have IRON worms. They eat holes in iron, leave a redish like matter, iron poo.

You can have all you want.

So What? Neither are White and Black people and Ringneck Pheasants.

Add manure and either grow or spread large amounts of
organic matter.It'll take awhile to get the soil back into a decent condition.

(quoted from post at 07:37:43 06/27/14) So What? Neither are White and Black people and Ringneck Pheasants.

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(quoted from post at 04:20:48 06/27/14) Pile up a good sized mound of manure on any area where you think there may be some left, cover it with a tarp - you'll have thousands of them to experiment with within six months.

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agree
rabbit poop works best if you know any rabbit raisers

what knowledge I have came from Dakota lakes research farm <http://www.dakotalakes.com/> duane beck has successfully planted them.
I'd like to find a unit to plant them.

Actually no people are native to the Americas.

Well thats true but I guess the 1st to show up
gets to claim the 'native' label.If the 1st group of 'Native Americans' brought some seeds and animals with them are those 'native' species?I guess its like most places in the South you have to be at least a 3rd generation born here to be considered 'from' here.

Just like seed they'll die if they don't have conditions right to survive.

There were native Americans living across the River from St Louis in Illinois at a place called Cahokia between 900 and 1200 AD. It was a trading post/ village of estimate 10,000 Indians. The mounds they built are still visible at Cahokia, Ill. They were native to the America's.

Um no, their ancestors immigrated across the land bridge from what is now Russia. Just like yours and my ancestors immigrated to this country from overseas. One could argue I suppose, anyone born in the Americas is a native American tho.

You cant "plant" earthworms, not and have them live anyway. Earthworms (common nightcrawler) live in a burrow and since they are blind, if they come out of that burrow, they die (usually bird food). Even if the earthworms find a different burrow, its almost a certainty that they cant live in it because it has to be sized perfect for the earthworm. As they live and grow, they munch out the burrow to fit themselves, thus they cant live in a different worms burrow. Burrow too big and the worm cant grip the sides and move in it. Too small of a burrow and the worm cant get in or move.

As for the worms people are talking about that live in manure piles, those are totally different worms and will not live in your fields. Easy to grow and you get lots of them in 6 months with just a pile of manure but the only value is the pile, the worms are worthless for spreading on the field, they will just die shortly.

Strange story: about 10 years ago there was a pyramid scheme with compost worms. People would buy highly overpriced worms from a company with the agreement that the company would buy 10 times as many worms back from the customer a year or so later as well as all the worm compost (worm poo). Many people made huge money, even built sheds so they could keep reproducing all winter long but like all pyramid schemes, the bottom fell out leaving an even larger number of folks holding the bag... of worms. The only limited market was the compost, the worms that the company bought back from customers were only sold to new customers (suckers). Soon the market was saturated and the compost was selling as much as was able but because of the contracts for worms, everything fell on itself. Strange story but true.

I learned all about the worms and worm raising when I had large fish. I had a small aquaponic thing going on and I wanted worms to feed the fish. Super easy to do but totally useless for your fields. The granola crunchers even like to keep worms under thier sink in cities, they think they are saving the world if they put food scraps in that and let the worms eat the food, rather than just throwing the food in the garbage. Those hippies are strange folks too.