Over 30 Reasons Why Ferbon Bio-humate Soil Conditioners & Fertilizers Should Be a Regular Part of Your Cropping Program
- Reduce cost and use of pesticides, herbicides & fungicides.
- Therefore reduce risks to yourself, family, farm animals & environment.
- Hence also reduce ground water problems.
- Reduce nitrogen inputs and losses.
- Decrease soil compaction due to increased microbial action in a more balanced soil.
- Over time, have less weed pressures.
- Hold more moisture in soil aggregate structures.
- Reduce erosion with a soil structure more open yet better bonded and more friable.
- Reduce risk of crop failure in dry conditions due to soil moisture reserve.
- Enhance survival opportunities for beneficial microbes both indigenous and corrective.
- Lower disease and pest pressure.
- Move profitably toward a more enlivened productive soil.
- If raising stock, benefit from better mineral uptake into feed/pasture and less problems with stock.
- Supply secure home for restored mycorrhizal fungi, so leading to reducing calcium leaching.
- Deepen aerobic zone in soil for greater spread of the crop’s fine feeder roots.
- Longer lasting and superior to deep litter fowl manure and other animal manures; due to better moisture holding capacity, reduced bulk density and improves utilisation of inorganic fertilizers.
- Cumulative benefit occurs to soil system NOT progressive degradation.
- No nasty smells unlike anaerobic fertilizers and animal and fowl manures.
- No nasty pathogens that can come with undecomposed animal manures.
- Balanced blend of fast & slow releasing soil and plant nutrients.
- Assists turned in cover crops to detoxify the soil by adsorbing crop break down products so preventing future troubles with sterilising and preservative effects of the tilled in green manure.
- Bio-masses in the various Bio-humate products contain multitudes of microbes that assist progressive releasing of locked up phosphates and other soil nutrients.
- All Ferbon Bio-humates contain high levels of humic and fulvic organic complexes; other components are synergistic and not fillers.
- Assists to open up high clay structures so that plant feeder roots can source more minerals.
- Due to their natural inherent high cation holding ability, Bio-humates progressively increase soil total cation exchange capacity so enabling retention of more cations for gradual release to meet the needs of the growing plant for additional mineral elements.
- Reduce spraying costs such as fuel, mechanical wear, soil compaction and labour due to improved plant well being requiring fewer protective or control sprays.
- Other benefits that are noticed over more than 15 years of practical use in South Australia: include increased nutrient levels in grapes, cereal and vegetable crops, leading to much higher resale prices and greater demand.
- Reduce and gradually turn around acidification of soil including a compounding effect due to increasing beneficial aerobic fungal multiplication. Can blend in Bio-humates with other minerals suggested by analysis, including calcium.
- Reduce need for nematode sprays due providing to the foundation support for the living beneficial soil food web regeneration.
- Allow growers to work with nature not fighting against nature’s natural cleaner-uppers of inferior lower quality foods due to the lack of adequate levels humic complexes in soil and crop.
- Stabilise nitrogen’s, phosphates, sulphates and borates within humic/humus complexes so that these anions do not so readily flush away out of the reach of feeder hair roots.
- Very high levels of Humic/ humus complexes mean improved soil buffering ability.
- Natural phenolics in Ferbon Bio-humates can assist toward reducing fusarium problems.
- No smelly manures with potential health and handling problems.
- May be blended with additional mineral rock fertilizers, as happens in natural forest environment.
- Blood & Bone has far fewer cumulative benefits than the Ferbon Bio-humate granular products and is not as natural a product of decomposition. Ferbon Bio-humate and associated Bio-humate organic fertilizers, soil conditioners and biological inputs are following closest to the way natural fertility works.
Why are humic acid complexes in the Ferbon Bio-humate and Organic Fertilizers so vital and beneficial?
BIOLOGICAL BENEFITS:
- Act as an organic catalyst to stimulate plant enzymes.
- Stimulates growth and proliferation of desirable soil micro-organisms.
- Increases root respiration and formation.
- Stimulates root growth, especially lengthwise.
- Increases the permeability of plant membranes, promoting the uptake of nutrients.
- Increase protein levels of plants.
- Increase germination of seed and viability.
- Stimulate plant growth by accelerating cell division, increasing the rate of development in root systems, and increasing the yield of dry matter.
CHEMICAL BENEFITS:
- Chelates metal ions under alkaline conditions.
- Rich in both organic and mineral substances essential to plant growth.
- Promotes the conversion of a number of elements into forms available to plants.
- Buffer against many toxic agents in the soil.
PHYSICAL BENEFITS
- Make soil more friable or crumbly.
- Improve soil work-ability.
- Improve seed bed.
- Increase capacity of plant roots to forage more efficiently over greater, deeper soil areas.