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Soil Health

Soil Health

Healthy soil is key to successful gardening and farming. The practice of simply adding fertilizer can leave one dismayed. Proper application can be tricky, too little or too much can greatly diminish your returns, if not kill your plants altogether. Not to mention that fertilizer is not necessarily cheap. And we would be remiss if we didn’t mention that many fertilizers often contain plastics and other undesirable nanoparticles. So, what is the answer to achieving long-term soil health?

Promotion of Long-term Soil Health

Firstly, let’s start with what long-term healthy soil will accomplish. Additionally, healthy soil will net you stronger plants, higher yields, and fewer pests and disease. Sounds ideal, doesn’t it? It is! So, how do you go about ensuring you have proper soil health?

We’ll start with three main factors, listed below.

  • Stronger Roots, Stems, and Stalks: Plants started from adequately inoculated seeds are more tolerant of environmental stress.
  • Insect Protection: Bio-inoculants or biological inoculants are one way to combat soil-dwelling pests that may feed on a plant.
  • Disease Resistance: Certain inoculants can prevent crop-specific diseases.

You may wonder if there is a one-shot fix to cover all of these issues. Largely, and by means of traditional methods, the answer is, no.

So, now what? Let’s talk about graphite.

Agri Minerals Graphite Sand (AMGS)

Graphite

Graphite occurs naturally in metamorphic rocks such as marble, gneiss, and schist. It exhibits the properties of a metal and nonmetal. Thus, making it suitable for many industrial applications. The nonmetallic properties of graphite include inertness, lubricity, and high thermal resistance. Because of its unusual crystal structure, graphite exhibits many of the properties characteristic of metallic materials such as its ability to conduct electricity. Therefore, graphite is also used in the production of electrodes and generator brushes.

Furthermore, benefits of adding graphite sand to the soil not limited to the garden. Its agriculture use as a soil amendment when mixed with compost or manure are vast. Additional information can be viewed with the links below.

Graphite Mine Tailings

Lesser known due to availability and lack of vast research, there is a new game in town that is proving to be a game-changer. And it comes by the way of graphite mine tailings. There is only one graphite mine in the US that has made graphite, sand or dust, available to the public for agricultural purposes. If you are guessing, Greensmiths Southwestern Graphite Mine, perhaps you should go grab a lottery ticket while you are at it.

However, we don’t expect you to take our word for it. We’ve got analytical data from Arizona State University (ASU) to prove it. Healthy soil can be achieved with graphite, as detailed by C. Ryan Penton, Ph.D., at ASU, and we have the results of his metagenomic testing. We invite you to review the findings here: Greensmith’s Graphite Microbiome Analysis

Agri Minerals Graphite Sand

You can now achieve healthy soil with our graphite sand: Agri Minerals Graphite Sand (AMGS)

We are pleased to offer B2B sales of our proprietary product, AMGS. Offered in bulk quantities, this revolutionary product has the ability to change the world of agriculture as we know it.

Graphite Sand

Per Dr. Penton’s research on the addition of graphite nanoparticle to fertilizers, it has shown it reduces nitrate leaching in the growth of lettuce (lactua sativa), among many other benefits. The economic value of graphite mine tailings by recent innovations, includes but is not limited to:

  • Carbon Capture: Using land application in soil by remediation.
  • Remediation of Non-point Pollution Sources: Addressed through large scale land application of (AMGS) graphite mine tailings. Graphite mine tailings can be used in concrete to provide self-cleaning surfaces by photocatalytic reaction.
  • Decreasing Green House Gases: Through the control of Nitrogen loss by reducing the volume necessary for crop production and altering the soil microbiome to lesson denitrification or leachate.
  • Restoring Soil Health: Through the processes of mineralization.
Soil Health with AMGS

Typical soil contains approximately 45% minerals (clay, silt, and sand), 50% air and water, and 5% organic material.

The major source for carbon input into the soil is through biological carbon fixation mediated by plants, and further by autotrophic (or mixotrophic) soil bacteria. Plant inputs consist of litter from above-ground tissues (stem and leaves), decaying roots, and mucilage, exudates, and root-associated microbial products collectively referred to as rhizodeposits. In recent years, rhizodeposits have received significant attention because they were identified as greater contributors to carbon inputs in many soils. Furthermore, rhizodeposits provide a major conduit of carbon into deeper soils and include sugars, amino acids, and various other organic acids from root exudates. These serve as crucial energy and carbon sources to support the catabolic and anabolic processes of soil microorganisms. They shape both root-associated bacterial and fungal communities. Exudates promote growth of microbial biomass. The dead remains of which can contribute to the soil’s organic matter formation and thereby increase soil carbon stocks.

You can find more on this in the article below.

Soil Health Resources

Again, we encourage you to study the subject and not just take our word for it. The following entities have conducted their own research and all signs point to rock dust as being the new Superhero to many of our agricultural woes. Below you will find several articles that support these findings.

The Get Real Alliance: The Riches of Rock Dust

This episode talks about the advantages of rock dust to regenerating soil among other advantages. It is worth viewing!

For more information on our Agri Minerals Graphite Sand (AMGS) and sales, contact us.