by Deac Jones | Oct 12, 2026 | News
Here’s the part that surprises people. When you pull a soil sample from a block that’s functioning well, the largest share of the stable carbon in it isn’t leftover plant residue. It isn’t the compost you applied. It’s dead microbes. Cell walls, membranes, the chemical wreckage of billions of organisms that lived, ate, and died in that soil. Soil scientists call it necromass. It binds to clay and silt surfaces, and once it does, it can sit there for centuries.
by Deac Jones | Sep 7, 2026 | News
Microbiologists call this quorum sensing. The organisms are effectively taking a headcount, waiting until there are enough of them for a coordinated action to be worth attempting.
by Deac Jones | Aug 10, 2026 | News
We treat a nutrient value as an asset. It is only an asset if something is moving it. Sitting nitrate isn’t fertility — it’s a leaching event waiting on the next irrigation.
by Deac Jones | Jul 22, 2026 | News
We are spending billions of dollars and no small amount of imagination trying to reach a planet whose air would kill us in minutes. Mars isn’t just a world without plants. It’s a preview of the atmosphere Earth would have if photosynthesis ever stopped.
by Deac Jones | Jul 1, 2026 | Abiotic Stress, Agricultural Data, Crop Health, Flavonoid, Heat Stress, Microbes, Micronutrients, Nutrient Density
Here’s the part that should stop every grower cold: the health of your soil and the health of the person eating your crop may be the same story.
