Here's good news from our West Coast Distributor John Miller of
Spec International.
He sent me this report with photos yesterday, September 14,
2015.
The farm is located near the New Mexico Arizona State line South
of Interstate 10 in the Chihuahuan Desert. The trees are irrigated with
above ground spray heads with water coming from deep irrigation wells.
Soils are typical Southwestern desert dirt with high pH, high salinity and poor
structure after its been disturbed. As a result crops including
tree crops often show signs of salt burn, iron uptake problems (chlorosis) and
zinc uptake problems on pecan trees. This particular grower is
putting in over a thousand acres of new trees each year with some of the
acreage treated with our TerraPro and Protein
Crumblies products. I'm glad he's left some acreage untreated as
it gives us the opportunity to compare. They are also being supplemented
nutritionally with a foliar feed using an AgGrand 4-3-3 product which Soil
Secrets collaborates with as both company's are very complementary to each
other. Here are some photos showing treated versus non treated, so you
can draw your own conclusion.
Leaves from non treated trees
Leaves off of trees treated with Soil
Secrets and AgGrand
Trees on the left have been treated
while those on the right have not.
Looking into the treated field, showing
vigorous growth on trees treated May of 2015 with TerraPro, Soil Secrets
Bio-Identical Supramolecular Humic Molecule product.
Looking into the field of non treated
Pecan trees
Typical new growth with vigorous
foliage of a TerraPro treated Pecan. Trees were treated 4 months earlier
at the beginning of the growing season.
The changes seen on this pecan orchard are consistent with
our results seen in California Almond and Pistachio tree
orchards where TerraPro's aromatic chemistry corrected
the health of the soil, opened up the structure making the soil more porous to
oxygen and water, which improves the availability of water and nutrients,
while decreasing the damage caused by salinity. We've done
compaction measurements that quantifies these changes showing the
compaction of the soil droping form a psi of 300 down to 50 - 75 psi down to a
depth of 3 feet. If our penetrometer can probe the soil to a depth of 3
feet with only 50 to 75 pounds of pressure than water and oxygen can easily get
into the soil, which changes everything and puts that soil on the journey to better
soil health. Getting the irrigation water to penetrate deeper will
help to reduce your irrigation frequency needs and improve the crops ability to
get mineral nutrition up into the plant. In addition to needing less
irrigation water, healthy soils also need less fertilizer inputs and in this
case the farmer can skip the typical sulfuric acid treatment that's commonly
used in Arizona and New Mexico's pecan industry in the attempt to open up the
soil and remediate the harmful effects of salt. TerraPro can do this much
more effectively while also improving the health of the soils terrestrial
biosphere.
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