There are 20 essential amino acids that play unique roles during a plant’s lifecycle, some of which can and will help facilitate the availability and transportation of calcium.
Once Matt had acquired a basic set of weed control equipment for his own farm, his next move was to acquire the precision technologies. The first leap in this phase of his operation was purchasing a new tractor with an integrated autosteer system capable of sub-inch accuracy.
Bees and other pollinator species are essential partners to the farmers and ranchers growing our food crops, but still often treated as an outside factor. We need to protect them, but how? And how will protecting them affect farmers’ bottom line?
Soil has three major components that must be managed for optimum performance: chemical, physical and biological, and each of these properties offer a grower the opportunity to collect data points that can and should translate to management opportunities.
Soil organic matter (SOM) is the foundation of both plant and soil health and is thought to be one of the most valuable tools in capturing and storing atmospheric carbon. Made up of three distinct components, SOM can be grouped into the categories of: Living, Active and Stable, with subcategories more clearly defining the role of each within the soil biome.