A Message to our customers
As someone with over 20 years of experience on the ranch, I have always used a standard methods to grow crops. However, I soon encountered various issues and started testing the soil biology within each field. This led me to switch to the organic solutions offered by Microbial Solutions.
Their soil amendments helped my crops’ root structures grow 3-6 inches more and improved how the soil retained water despite the very hot temperatures. I was so impressed with these results that I became an authorized distributor of Microbial Solutions’ products.
Microbial inoculants applied to the soil to protect and promote plant growth, single microbial strains (either a bacterium or a fungus) are traditionally used and their activity in soils is often persistent. Our research has demonstrated that using a mixed inoculants (NGAg, Humic-AG and TM-90), consisting of fungus and several bacterial species, produces a more robust bioinoculant, with more consistent effects on the plant grown in soil due to synergistic and complementarity effects. Therefore, appling this combination of inoculants is an alternative to agrochemical for a sustainable agriculture. We are aiming at releasing simultaneously, and in an active form, a consortium composed of bacteria and a fungus that act as biocontrol agents to improve the soils biomass. Moreover, the pesticide tolerance of the combination of inoculants/selected microorganisms will benefit conventional agriculture.
What makes our product a sustainable microorganism is the ability to go dormant. Microbial dormancy is a natural response to changing environmental condition. To cope with various stresses, microorganisms have evolved various strategies to withstand environmental conditions that limit active growth and plunges them in a viable but non-growing or dormant state to endure the harsh stress and resume growth once the stress subsides. Dormancy often involves the formation of a specialized morphotype, referred to here as a dormant cell (DC) (also known as a spore or spore-like cell).
Thankfully, these soil microbe-plant interactions are self-regulated. And to keep these microbes functioning and plants thriving as they should, there’s a system of checks and balances that occurs within soil. For example, in a healthy, diverse soil mixture, microbes help plants suppress pathogens by inducing natural plant defenses, producing antibiotics, fighting against pathogens, or through the hyperparasitism of the pathogen.
We have experienced in our application of microbial solution inoculants an increase in production, the retention of water and a suppression of pathogen for a better plant defense.