Improving Root Health to Increase Crop Yield

A healthy root system is necessary for a productive crop. Using Pro-Soil agricultural products and reducing usage of heavy farm equipment can be the difference between an average soybean yield and a new record crop, and it’s been proven.

Improving root health can be as simple as reducing your use of heavy farm equipment.  Compaction, most often caused by overuse of agricultural equipment, will reduce your crop’s ability to thrive and produce high crop yields.

Biostimulants

One of the most promising approaches to improving plant root health involves the development and use of naturally occurring, organic materials, or “Biostimulants,” that influence the growth and development of plants by affecting control mechanisms within the plants that act synergistically with nutrients to improve the plant’s uptake and availability.

While metabolism provides the power and building blocks necessary to sustain plant life, it is the endogenous Biostimulants (those produced within the plant itself), that regulate the speed of growth and orchestrate the various parts to produce the form we recognize as a plant.

Such materials, which have also been termed plant hormones, phytohormones, or plant growth regulators, have the potential to mediate a wide range of processes including seed germination, root and shoot growth, vegetative growth, flowering, fruit set, growth and development, in such a way as to improve overall production.

Current farming practices are contributing less than 3% of our total inputs toward doing anything that actually improves our native soils or root health. Many of our tillage methods, chemicals and fertilizers are actually working against us.

Years and years of continuing the same practices have left many of our soils biologically depleted and many of our nutrients tied-up and unavailable to the plant.

At Pro-Soil Ag Solutions we don’t have all the answers, but have shown time and again that we can help the farmer improve his soil’s biological health, thereby allowing more complete conversion and uptake of nutrients.

The farmer gets more bang for his fertilizer buck and gradually reduces his inputs. Since efficiency has improved, you make more net profit by lowering operational costs per acre, and produce a more beautiful crop yield.

If you are looking to bring your crops back to life, get healthier roots, and increase your overall crop yield, it’s time to call Pro-Soil Ag Solutions.