Pro-soil is interested in helping farmers increase crop yield. Our healthy soil products and an increased knowledge about effective microorganisms and their role can help accomplish this goal. Read on to find out more. The concept of Effective Microorganisms (EM) was developed by Profes sor Teruo Higa, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan. EM consists […]
Pro-soil is interested in helping farmers increase crop yield. Our healthy soil products and an increased knowledge about living organisms do in the rhizosphere can help accomplish this goal. Read on to find out more. The rhizosphere is a center of intense biological activity due to the food supply provided by the root exudates. Bacteria, […]
Pro-soil is interested in helping farmers with natural soil nutrition. Our healthy soil products can help increase crop yields as can an increased knowledge about what crop roots do in rhizosphere. Read on to find out more. What do the roots do in the rhizosphere? The roots exude water and compounds broadly known as exudates. […]
Soil bacteria play a vital role in the nitrification process, which releases ammonium from organic matter and transforms it into nitrate, which can be used by plants. The bacteria responsible for nitrification exist mostly in the top few centimeters of the soil profile. The bacteria work as a team. One group of bacteria, called ammonium […]
Continued from last week: Using a tool known as Soil Foodweb Analysis on the Menoken Farm, owned by the Burleigh County Soil Conservation District, Fuhrer showed total bacteria in the soil more than tripled from 2005 to 2010 and total fungi increased by about one-third. The soil was also initially low in beneficial nematode numbers, […]
Talk with Gabe Brown and you quickly discover he bubbles over with thoughts about sustainable soil management. “Healthy soil is so amazing. It’s truly alive, and there are a lot of things going on down there that we still don’t understand,” he says. The agricultural soil management techniques Brown uses on 2,000 acres just outside […]
Effective soil management practices through the use of Pro-Soil agricultural products is the key towards increasing soybean crop yield and preserving farmland. The excessive erosion of topsoil from farmland caused by intensive tillage and row-crop production has caused extensive soil degradation and also contributed to the pollution of both surface waters and groundwater. Organic wastes […]
