Make every acre answer back.
Independent field research on soil amendments and fertilizer-efficiency inputs. Efficacy, economics, and data a state will accept.
Efficiency, function, return.
Nutrient-use efficiency
Agronomic efficiency, partial factor productivity and apparent recovery of applied N and P.
Soil function
Cation exchange capacity, water-holding capacity, aggregate stability, pH buffering.
Return per acre
Partial budget analysis: delivered cost against fertilizer displaced and yield retained.
A lab result is not a recommendation. We find the rate where response peaks - for a named crop, in a named soil.
Crop, soil texture, blend ratio, placement and weather carried as variables. Confidence stated, including where the data is thin. More rate is not more response, and the point where it stops paying is the number a grower actually needs.
Anything that goes into the ground and claims to help.
Mineral amendments
Pozzolan, zeolite, silicates, gypsum, lime and other rock-derived materials.
Fertilizer-efficiency products
Inhibitors, coatings, humic and fulvic products, and anything sold to make a nutrient go further.
Biologicals and biostimulants
Microbial inoculants, extracts and metabolites, held to the same evidence standard as everything else.
Reclamation materials
Soil-building blends for mine spoil, construction sites and ground taken out of production.
One material. Six soils. Six answers.
We do not work one region or one soil type. A material that lifts productivity on silt loam can do very little on saline ground, and a client is better served knowing that early.
Four stages. Each one earns the next.
Characterize
Mineralogy, exchange capacity, nutrient retention in representative soils.
Greenhouse
Rate trials crossed with full and reduced fertilizer.
Field
Randomized, replicated plots with cooperating growers.
Publish
Analysis, economics per acre, open technical report.
We report fertilizer-efficiency and soil-property outcomes only. No pest or disease claims. Figures drawn from existing literature are labeled as such.
The agronomy has to clear the freight.
An input that works in the plot and loses money at the gate has not worked. We carry delivered cost, application and haul inside the analysis, and report the rate at which value returned overtakes what the grower spent - or report that it does not.
Pozzolan is first through the pipeline. Others follow.
Porous, silica-rich, barely tested in row-crop systems. Cereals, turf and forage grasses first, then pulses, oilseeds and specialty crops, across soils from silt loam to claypan, sand and degraded bottomland. We take on any soil amendment a client needs measured - including the efficacy data most states require before a product can be registered and sold.
Grasses first. Then the rest.
Two reasons people call.
Manufacturers and distributors
A claim you need substantiated, a label a state will register, and a number a grower will believe.
Programs, agencies and landowners
Nutrient loss, water quality and degraded ground, where the question is what actually works on this soil.
We measure what the label will have to defend.
Send the product and the claim. We come back with a protocol, a timeline and a cost.