by Deac Jones | Mar 3, 2020 | News
The soil’s ability to hold and release plant nutrients is key. One big factor in this is the Cation Exchange Capacity, or CEC, a measure of how many cations or positively charged ions, or cations, can be retained on soil particle surfaces. These cations can be swapped...
by Deac Jones | Feb 5, 2020 | News
Seventeen elements have been identified as vital to plant growth. Three of them — carbon, hydrogen and oxygen — are non-minerals, and the other 14 are minerals. Carbon and oxygen enter plants through leaves as carbon dioxide. Oxygen also enters plants with...
by Deac Jones | Jan 23, 2020 | Fertilizers, Free cycling, Microbes, Mineralize Nutrients, Nutrient Transfer, Plant dependent
We, as humans, don’t give enough credit to the sophistication of the natural world around us. It’s important for us to place significant weight on our friendship with nature. Complementing natural processes in our agricultural pursuits will accelerate our success as...
by Deac Jones | Jan 15, 2020 | Micronutrient Deficiencies, Mineralize Nutrients, Nutrient deficiencies, Nutrient excesses, Weed Control
It’s our human activities that have created weed problems since no plant is a “weed” in nature. Weeds compete with our crops and so have become an enemy to farmers. And as farmers have piled on the herbicides to address the problem, they have complicated...
by Deac Jones | Jan 9, 2020 | Biodiversity, Biostimulants, Crop Protection, Fertilizers, Nutrient deficiencies, Nutrient excesses, photosynthesis, Root Exudation, Soil amendments, Soil Organic Matter
It’s a New Year and with it brings an opportunity to consider new outlooks and new ways to do things, to rethink how we’ve done things in the past and how we might improve upon them. For those that have followed our newsletters, you’re aware of our position – it’s all...
