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REDUCING CHEMICAL FERTILIZER, AND SOIL REJUVENATION
For the improvement of Soil Health, Plant Productivity and to Rejuvenate Soils, you need to take into account a number of aspects, one of the most important being soil biology. It is generally accepted that large quantities of fertilizers have a serious impact on the soil and environment. Increased application of chemical fertilizer into degraded soils is generally not the answer to an increase in crop production, and yet it tends to be most farmers and agronomists solution to a problem of declining productivity. The soils falling into this category have crops with root systems that struggle to remove nutrients from the soil due to poor root structure lacking the fine feeder root hairs. This is where specifically selected microbes in combination with other microbial food sources will enhance the efficiency of (chemical) nutritional inputs with the resultant aim of improved productivity, plant health and over time, and increase of soil carbon and oganic matter content. The REJUVENATOR team of microbes work around the root system feeding on plant exudates and root cells released (cell sloughing) as the roots find their way through the soil. In this process the REJUVENATOR microbes work to release nutrients, for example, phosphorus and manganese, amongst others, in the soil. They also promote and stimulate the plants ability to grow. In addition to recycling crop residues, incorporating Compost and/or other organic matter such as manure, into the soil, or leaving crop residues on the soil surface, either way, in order to achieve maximum benefit for subsequent crop use, biology is an essential element in this whole recycling process. The degradation of these compounds allows mineralisation of decaying vegetation, and the microbes within the REJUVENATOR act as an integral part of a team, freeing up nutrients and making them available for other microbial populations. Increasing the biological populations, organic matter and stored carbons lead to decrease in the amount of chemical fertilizers that need be applied. REJUVENATOR has been shown to reduce chemical fertilizer input by upto 20%.
 
Using Allcrobe products this crop of banana's
showed no water logging stress & remained healthy
through the record rainfalls of 3500mls which fell
in North Queensland summer 2009. Crop grown
with reduced nutrient inputs.
Sugarcane, Bananas, Tree crops, Horticulture, and Broad acrea, all have beneficial environments for our microbial formulations to perform, where they can be applied via irrigation or soil injection with adequate water. They also all have trash or residues which can be recycled to greater efficiency than is currently practiced. Governments and Industry are putting into place carbon emission protocols and carbon trading schemes, are beginning to evolve, and using products such as REJUVENATOR, RECYCLER, TWINN, in farming practices, will contribute to the efforts of Primary Producers in reducing their carbon footprint.
SOIL PREPARATION FOR SEED GERMINATION OR TRANSPLANTING ACTIVITIES
Improving soil health improves the structure of the soil, allowing for greater porosity, water absorption and retention, increased mineratlization, encourages a bigger root system, which in turn leads to stronger, healthier plants, which in turn leads to less chance for disease to take hold. A healthy soil, will lead to less soil erosion and help build up the carbon concentrations. Inoculating the microbes into soil, or hydroponic medium for seed germination, will result in speedlings reaching a quicker transplant stage.
SOIL PREPARATION
Seed bed preparation is probably the one most important aspect of any farming operation, and tends to be one often rushed and not as sufficient detail paid as most farmers would like to see. To establish healthy plants in the field, that can produce a root system to carry a plant through the growing, flowering and production phases, remain healthy and produce above average yields in good and bad seasons, needs a healthy and well balanced soil.
The use of the chemical farming system on its own unfortunately takes little cognisance of nature and as a result, we are seeing soils farmed for long periods which are now no-where near as productive as new virgin soils. Chemical scientists are trying to find out what the actual differences are, and having a difficult time finding out the answers. Nature doesn't seem to work in any logistical fashion, and it seems that time has come to look at the basics and what farmers, before the chemical revolution, used to do to produce a healthy crop which generally had better nutritional value, brix levels and flavour and incorporate some of these practices into modern farming which will assist in endeavours to turn around the trend of degrading soils. Holistic management is important, and one factor that should be considered is the production and use of good quality compost . Composts should be formulated to provide a balance of nutrients. The use of compost will immediately increase organic matter in the feeder root zone, and begin to setup an environment for improved soil structure, moisture retention, and provide a wide range of nutrients that are mainly slow release, and have undergone a beneficial microbial process, making them suitable for plant use. The use of specially selected fungi in RECYCLER COMPOST & TRASH will assist in the composting process.
The use of compost, and organic matter, mill mud (QLD) with chemcial fertilizers and trace elements incorporated into the seed bed, will also provide a more suitable home for REJUVENATOR microbes to work around the roots, as explained, above, and assist in providing plants a more suitable healthier environment to move towards achieving the healthy well balanced soil.
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AGRICULTURE: REJUVENATOR SOIL REJUVENATION, FERTILIZER REDUCTION, PLANT PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH AND HEALTH
