IT ALL BEGINS WITH WATER AND CALCINE

Calcine Offers Multiple Pathways to Improving Soils

When added to irrigation water, Calcine mobilizes salt out of the root zone and improves soil productivity. Calcine, when used as a water treatment, has been shown to:

• Amend salty soils. Calcine mobilizes salt out of the root zone, reducing sodium, chloride and carbonate salt concentrations in the soil.
• Improve soil structure. Flushing salts from the root zone leads to a plethora of soil health benefits. These include improved water infiltration rates, less ponding and improved permeability.
• Boost nutrient-holding capacity. Salts eliminated through Calcine application can be replaced by higher-value nutrients such as calcium to flocculate the soil. Calcium helps open sealed soils by acting like a binding agent for other nutrients. When salts are replaced by calcium and other nutrients, soil fertility, structure and permeability further improve.
• Support earthworm establishment. By nature, earthworms avoid compacted, salty soils. As a reflection of the soil improvements facilitated by Calcine, earthworm populations in treated soils soared. In fields once sealed and inhospitable to soil life, earthworms were now able to flourish. That becomes a virtuous cycle of reinforcement, as the earthworms further improve soil structure and increase nutrient cycling. Earthworms matter: An analysis of 58 studies showed that the presence of earthworms is related to an astounding 25 percent increase in yield and a 21 percent rise in plant biomass.
• Reduce water dependence. Following application in 2015, an Arizona alfalfa grower reduced water use by 37 percent after four months of treatment. Because Calcine dramatically improves soil structure, soil water-holding capacity and permeability increase. This helps farms become more resilient to weather extremes and lowers irrigation expenses. And, because irrigation water is a leading contributor to sodic soil conditions, allowing farms to apply less water helps them break the sodic soil cycle.
• Releases nutrients. Field studies have shown Calcine to increase soil nitrate and phosphate concentrations without increases in nutrient application. This suggests that Calcine unlocks nitrates and phosphates in the soil, making them more plant-available.
• Increase alfalfa quality. Application of Calcine has been shown to increase important forage components. Early analysis from a farm in Arizona reported higher protein, fat and calcium. Analysis also showed a reduction of sodium and chloride content, and higher total digestible nutrients. This illustrates Calcine’s ability to move salt out of the root zone, making other important nutrients more available for plant uptake.

Many Types of Farms Can Benefit from Calcine

Calcine can be a solution to many growing challenges. The solutions noted above can be paired with individual farms with relative ease. We should target farms that have:

• Irrigation systems. Calcine can be added to any irrigation system to help flush salts from the root zone and improve soil structure and productivity. It can also reduce water use overall and help save on irrigation expenses.
• Sodic soils. Sodic soils are a yield-limiting factor. Amending sodic soils can increase productivity farm-wide.
• Compacted soils. Compacted soils are a common yield-limiting factor. In sodic soils, both compaction and salt content are reduced by Calcine application.

Rain Plus products are designed to release the dynamic potential of soil, setting in motion the natural process of building biomass and putting life back into the soil for future crops. Utilizing Rain Plus programs you will reduce soil stressed by high salts, alkaline spots, compacted soil and standing water. Rain Plus Calcine will increase the soils infiltration and water holding capacity.

Rain Plus Calcine water and soil treatments will help the farmer reduce trips through the field by creating natural soil weed inhibitors. As well, applying Rain Plus Calcine with your fall cover crop will improve water infiltration during spring thaw, resulting in less run off.

Previous farming practices have reduced soil’s overall organic matter making it harder to increase crop yield in both GMO and non-GMO crops. Using forgotten farming practices our grandparents learned from their parents, and combining those fundamentals with new technologies, is how we will not only maintain yields but increase the yields needed to feed the growing world population. Rain Plus Calcine is part of the solution, the rest is up to you.

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