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Healthy Soil Performs Five Vital Functions:. Regulates water - Soil helps control where rain, snowmelt, and irrigation water goes. Water and dissolved solutes flow over the land or into and through the soil.
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Healthy Soil Performs Five Vital Functions: • Regulates water - Soil helps control where rain, snowmelt, and irrigation water goes. Water and dissolved solutes flow over the land or into and through the soil. • Sustains plant and animal life - The diversity and productivity of living things depends on soil. • Filters potential pollutants - The minerals and microbes in soil are responsible for filtering, buffering, degrading, immobilizing, and detoxifying organic and inorganic materials, including industrial and municipal by-products and atmospheric deposits. • Cycles nutrients - Carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and many other nutrients are stored, transformed, and cycled in the soil. • Supports structures - Buildings need stable soil for support, and archeological treasures associated with human habitation are protected in soils.
SumaGrow: Long Term Goal • Enhance growth, yield, and health of a broad spectrum of plants: legumes, non-legumes, vegetables, cereals, ornamentals, and fodder crops • Reduce input of N.P.K fertilizers • Increase soil organic matter • Increase soil organic matter • Increase the nutrient value of foods and forages
Increasing Yields Decreasing Fertilizer Inputs
Increasing Yields Field Trial on organic rice in Beaumont, Texas
Increasing Yields Field Trial on Forage and Hay at Lakota Ranch, Virginia
Increasing Yields Double Blind Field Trial Summary: MississippiSupervised by Michigan State University Research on the effect of products containing SumaGrow on Squash, Tomato, Banana Pepper and Bell Pepper
Increasing Yields Michigan State University concluded: “To the best of our knowledge there is no microbial formulation on the market today that is specifically designed to contain a comprehensive set of microbial groups with multiple complementary functions and with documented efficacy for substantially increasing productivity of such a broad spectrum of important pulses, cereals, vegetable, and forage crops as reported here…”
Increasing Yields University Trial on Alfalfa at Michigan State University, Michigan
Increasing Yields 2012 Replicated Organic Rice Trial
Increasing Yields 2012 Replicated Peanut Trials
Increasing Yields Comparing the health of the plant and its ability to access needed nutrients. SumaGrow Only 100% NPK Only Lots of Nodules No Nodules
Increasing Yields 2012 Cotton Trials
Increasing Plant Health 2012 Replicated Corn Trial
Increasing Plant Health University Trial on Cacao at HawaiiWindward Community College, Hawaii Trial Summary The results below are from a study which was conducted by Dave Ringuette, Professor at University of Hawaii Windward Community College. He studied the effects of a product containing SumaGrow on Cacao, from seed, in potted plants, in a shade house. The only difference in the plant treatment was the SumaGrow product. The SumaGrow treated plants went from a mean height of 5.9 inches to 12.6 inches which equals a growth increase of 114% while the non-treated plants went from 6.5 inches to 9.3 inches which equals a growth increase of 43%. Professor Ringuette noted observationally the water only plants had approximately 15% more mealy bug and beetle damage.
Increasing Plant Health Field Trial on Cotton in Arkansas
Increasing Plant Health Field Trial on Forage in Alabama
Increasing Plant Health Field trial on Forage and Hay in Louisiana
Increasing Plant Health Treated with SumaGrow Untreated
Agriculture is the single largest user of freshwater and is a major cause of degradation of surface and groundwater resources through erosion and chemical runoff. (FAO) • Population growth → increased demand for agriculture crops + advances in farming technology has caused an increase in contaminants in soil and waterways. (CDC) • We can expect more mandatory controls on agriculture, such as the Chesapeake Bay which is calling for 25% reduction in nitrogen, 24% reduction in phosphorus, & 20% reduction in sediment runoff by 2025. (EPA) • As regulations agricultural inputs continue to grow, farmers are finding themselves forced to navigate in increasingly tricky and unfamiliar waters.
How SumaGrow Helps Soil IMPROVING SOIL HEALTH & INCREASING ORGANIC MATTER • Stores & supplies nutrients by improving CEC • (reducing loss through runoff & leaching) • Stabilizes & holds soil particles together • (reducing erosion) • Soil resists compaction & promotes water infiltration • (reducing runoff) • Improves porosity & water holding capacity helping resist drought • (reducing runoff & leaching)
Trial Summary A rancher in Mississippi who uses chicken litter as his primary source of nutrients for his cattle pastures asked Bio Soil Enhancers, Inc. (BSEI) to test the effect of a product containing SumaGrow on phosphorous (P) removal from his soil. He sent samples of his soil to Bio Soil to determine if SumaGrow products would aid in the removal of P as his soil phosphorous exceeded the allowable limits (15 ppm) for using chicken litter as a source of fertilizer in the State of Mississippi. The technology of SumaGrow can mobilize and solubilize phosphorous (P) at both high and low soil pH environments and help make it available for plant uptake. SumaGrow reduced his phosphorus by 65.67%!
Sustainable Agriculture and Water Conservation High Microbial Soil in Desert Southwest The Value of High Microbial Soil in Desert Southwest Neighbor’s Pasture Untreated SumaGrow Treated Las Damas Ranch
Testimonial- Alabama “Grant sent this to me. His friend Carson Kimbrough using Sumagrow and is very happy!”
Testimonial-Mississippi We picked our first peas today and the Brix on them was 18!! Yay! What you think? Tested my father in laws two weeks ago and his was a 4 in the majority of the garden. And on one row that we put SumaGrow on last year was a 12. We are up to 39 bushels of peas and counting. MSUcares told me to expect 32 bu on that many peas. Production is great. We picked 12 bu today! And this is okra and peppers. And supper last night!!
Testimonial-Mississippi “Attached are pictures taken on 7-5-12 at Breckenridge Farms in Quitman, MS…You can see a noticeable difference in the development of the vines. Where SumaGrow was used the vines of adjoining plants are meeting in the middle on the trellis. Untreated vines are not even close to meeting in the middle. Last summer the treated vines produced over 4 tons per acre and untreated was close to one ton per acre. SumaGrow Treated SumaGrow Treated Untreated
The attached pictures are from Grant Lynch, the president of the International Speedway Corporation and chairman of the Super Speedway of Talladega. He applied a product containing SumaGrow on the deer plots that are owned by and part of the property of the Talladega Speedway. His email to Wayne Wade, President of Bio Soil Enhancers read: “Thanks Wade, I truly am amazed at the product. Last night I had one hunter who hunted the field with SumaGrow and another who hunted the one without SumaGrow. No deer in the one without, 20 in the field treated with SumaGrow. The fields are less than a ¼ mile from each other.” SumaGrow Treated Untreated
SumaGrow • Increases yields of Broad spectrum of crops • Enhances flavor and texture in crops and fruit • Produces more nutritious crops and fruit • Increases resistance to frost and drought • Quicker and sturdier growth rates
SumaGrow • Free natural input for organic farmers • Non-toxic, environmentally friendly and totally natural • Enhances sugar and mineral content in fruit and vegetables • Decreases dependence on chemical fertilizers – good savings for farmers • Improves water retention in free draining soils • Revitalizes existing plants and trees
Soil Health The key to building soil health is to first understand that soil is a biological system.
Optimum Soil Health Type of Organism number/acre lbs/acre Bacteria 800,000,000,000,000,000,000 2,600 Actinobacteria 20,000,000,000,000,000 1,300 Fungi 200,000,000,000,000 2,600 Protozoa 2,000,000,000,000 90 Algae 4,000,000,000 90 Nematodes 80,000,000 45 Insects/Arthropods 8,160,000 830 Earthworms 40,000 445
Functions of Microbes • Increase water infiltration. • Increase carbon content. • Increase soil aggregate stability. • Better mediation of temperature & moisture.
Organic Matter • Soil microorganisms decay organic matter and cycle nutrients back into forms that plants can use. • The valuable link between soil carbon and your crop are soil microorganisms. • OM effects nutrient cycles by chelating (chemically holding on to) nutrients, and preventing them from becoming insoluble and therefore unavailable to plants • Without microbes, vital soil nutrients like Phosphorus remain present but unavailable to your crop.
Corn - Arkansas • There was a $45.00 per acre increase in cost where the SumaGrow formulation was applied. All other costs were the same. • There was a 17 bushel per acre increase where SG was applied. • At $8.00 per bushel, the 17 bushel increase equates to a $91.00 increase($136.00 - $45.00)in profit for the SumaGrow treated fields
Cotton – North Carolina • The cost for each treatment was the same • The SG treated area yielded 163.9 lb/Ac more • At $1.00 per pound, this 163.9 lb increase means a $163.90 increase per acrein profits.
