Bug Off!
Balancing a field's soil biology and chemistry decreases the need forchemicals by 30% to 50% because healthy, nutritionally balanced plantsare more resistant to stress from drought, weeds, disease and insectattacks.KEEP YOUR CROPS FROM BEING EATEN ALIVEThe best way to protect your crops from being eaten alive by pests isto put them on a balanced diet. Insects and diseases are opportunistswho find their hosts by "listening" for imbalance. A plant weakened bypoor soil conditions puts out a frequency recognized by insects asfood. An insect can't recognize the frequency of a healthy planthowever, and will pass it up for an unhealthy one every time.According to one of the nation's leading biologists, Dr. Bruce Tanio,"If you balance the nutrition in the plant no insect in the world willattack that plant."FEED THE SOIL AND ALLOW THE SOIL TO FEED THE PLANTRecent studies have shown that farmers who use biological fertilizeramendments to feed the soil and "allow the soil to feed the plant"routinely reduce the amount of herbicides and pesticides they apply by10% or more per acre the first season and 30% per acre over threeyears -- without losing yield. In many cases, with balanced plantnutrition, yields have actually increased. Some growers have alsoreported reductions as high as 50%.At $10.50 an acre that's $5,250 in additional profit on a five-hundredacre farm!