Free U.S. Shipping on Orders a Gallon or Under
Satisfaction guaranteed.
2018 AG-USA FarmProgress – March color
When Mark in Nebraska used MycorrPlus in 2016, his corn yielded 20% more and his sunflowers yielded 25% more. Numerous individuals like Mark have seen that MycorrPlus works well on irrigated land. Learn more about retaining moisture and water conservation from the USDA NRCS water resources.
Unfortunately, for the dryland farmer it is less likely to have an abundance of moisture throughout the growing season. Recently, a farmer told me that if a rain would just last an extra week, it would help a lot. Perhaps some of you can relate with this.
Is there anything that farmers can do to retain moisture while at the same time getting rid of compaction? Yes! Let's take a look at a possible solution.
Last year I traveled to Albertville, Alabama, to attend the South Poll Cattle Association meeting. One of the speakers stated that it’s best to have a ratio of 50% bacteria to 50% fungi in the soil. In fact, fungi are key to helping us get rid of compaction and to highly structure the soil—structuring it magnifies the soil’s ability to retain moisture.
The bad news is, fungi don’t normally thrive in farm land; they thrive in soils in wooded areas, where there is plenty of decaying wood to feed on. So, how can we get fungi to thrive where we farm? Easy! Just arrange for the plant to feed the fungi.
But how do we accomplish this?
MycorrPlus is designed to do all of these things and more. It’s a bio-stimulant that can:
In short, MycorrPlus helps create a friendly environment in the soil where mycorrhizal fungi can thrive.
Aerobic microbes require oxygen and moisture to thrive. With the right help, they build incredible structure in the soil—an environment where oxygen circulates freely and moisture is stored efficiently. This is the same environment that plants need.
As plants sequester sugars to feed the microbes, these microbes use the residue as gums and glues to bind soil particles together, creating air compartments about 1/4” to 3/8” in size.
In highly structured soil, rain soaks deeply into these air pockets and is stored until needed. In contrast, in tight, clumped soil the top 6” becomes water-logged, leaving the soil dry and hard once the water evaporates.
When the right conditions are created in the soil, the plant can sequester enough sugars to build an inch of new topsoil each year. Approximately 90% of the ingredients needed for photosynthesis—carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen—are in the air. Carbon is organic matter, and organic matter is carbon.
When MycorrPlus empowers the plant to sequester huge amounts of sugars (liquid carbon), organic matter in the soil can increase by as much as 0.5% per year. For instance, in just 8 years, a farm in Oregon went from 0.4% to 4.7% organic matter.
Mycorrhizal fungi help unlock phosphorus, potassium, calcium, and numerous trace minerals bound up in the soil. As microbes digest these nutrients, they break chemical bonds and make them available to the plant. Up to 97% of soil nutrients are tied up, and MycorrPlus helps unlock this gold mine.