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Lack of attention to soil chemical imbalance leads to conditions that reduce the availability of nutrients. For example, continued applications of dolomite lime to acidic soil leads to the buildup of soil magnesium levels. Calcium flocculates the soil (loosens the soil by forming a glue in conjunction with humus polysaccharides, and organic acid paste together the fine clay fraction into stable soil aggregates ), and the farmer enjoys the beneficial effects until the magnesium level reaches 14 or 15% (depending on what method of analysis is used).

The soil then turns into a solid mass, reducing its capability of holding oxygen and other nutrients (magnesium also becomes unavailable at this point). Crops look chlorotic and have difficulty getting established, and increased levels of fertilizer are necessary to produce a crop.

AGGRAND Natural Wildlife Food Plot Formula Fertilizer also enriches the soil with increased nitrogen levels for greater soil microbial populations and better nutrient  uptake in crops for healthier, more resilient plants. Other benefits of this formula include:

Proper sulfur levels provide high levels of protein in seed crops, forages and legumes, producing crops animals prefer.

Potassium enables efficient use of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, regulates plant tissues and fluids and is a prime requirement in chlorophyll construction, resulting in more of the large, nutrient rich plants that animals prefer.

Phosphorus is important in flower, seed and fruit development, essential for vigorous growth of plant reproductive parts and facilitates efficient energy storage and transfer. Plants produce more seeds and fruit, providing more for wildlife to eat and allowing plants to reseed themselves for better established stands of vegetation.

AGGRAND Natural Wildlife Food Plot Formula Fertilizer contains organic materials including fish, bloodmeal and Norwegian Kelp. Organic materials feed the natural soil biology.

Often referred to as the “livestock of the soil,” this army of soil life breaks down the components of AGGRAND Food Plot Formula into plant available nutrients. Their steady release ensures nutrients remain in the soil to support growing plants. AGGRAND Natural Wildlife Food Plot Formula is manufactured from the finest natural ingredients available, including fish, bloodmeal, Norwegian kelp, Sulfate of Potash and a host of other essential natural ingredients for a truly excellent all purpose product.

Just like humans, animals are healthier and feel better when they eat nutrient rich foods. Also like humans, wild animals choose the best food source available, and that means higher protein levels over others. That’s what make food plots so powerful. Proper seed selection, along with effective soil preparation, greatly increases protein levels over natural forage.

AGGRAND Natural Wildlife Food Plot Formula boost nutrient levels, including protein, and provides the primary, secondary and micro nutrients plants need to flourish. Improved habitat and easy access to succulent, nutrient rich food attracts more wild game and helps grow larger healthier animals.

A properly obtained soil sample and resulting analysis are key steps in understanding the nutrient needs of any field. Once the analysis is complete, AGGRAND can provides product, dilution and application method recommendations, along with timing of those applications specific to the geographic region of interest.

There are times when fertilizer applications alone are not enough to create a naturally balanced soil. In these instances, AGGRAND also may recommend the incorporation of natural soil amendments such as lime, gypsum, manure and other minerals.

Hay and Pasture are integral to the food supply of many classes of livestock. Hay is one of the most versatile of stored forages and provides ready supplemental food for animals that also might graze pastureland.

High quality hay has more protein that can produce healthier livestock, reducing the need for feed supplements and associated costs.

AGGRAND Natural Fertilizers are formulated to provide nutrients immediately available to the plant and encourage microbial growth within the soil. These microbes break down nutrients into forms plants can use and improve the soil structure by creating  passageways for the movement of water and air. Plants develop stronger and deeper root systems that can result in higher quality forage.

Converting to a more sustainable or organic system produces many noticeable short term benefits. However, the long term benefits often determine the real success of the system.

Reduction or elimination of environmental impacts.

Viable crop production in years when other farms experience crop failures.

Buildup of topsoil.

Satisfaction of becoming more dependent on nature’s ability to provide.

AGGRAND Natural Fertilizer 4-3-3 stimulates microbial activity in the soil and supplies additional nutrients to the crop. Microbes and other soil life require oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and trace amounts of other elements to proliferate. AGGRAND Natural Fertilizer contains the elements necessary for proliferation of soil life in the form of proteins, enzymes, hormones, humus substances, vitamins, sugars and synergistic compounds.

Higher application levels of AGGRAND Natural Fertilizer are required early in the conversion process as chemical fertilization is eliminated. It is possible to recoup the cost of high application rates during the first two or three years when growing high value crops such as tomatoes or melons, but most situations require a gradual decline in chemical fertilizer applications while maintaining moderate levels of AGGRAND Natural Fertilizer applications.

The choice of methods depends on the soil type, fertility levels, base saturation balance, type of crops and soil tilth. Biological activity is maximized when the soil chemistry is in balance. The first method to put into practice is soil testing. The saturation percentages of the base (Cationic) elements (Ca, Mg, K, and H) and the cation exchange capacity of the soil are extremely relevant to creating the right conditions for microbial and root growth and nutrient uptake.

Major adjustments to this balance take time; if the soil is too far out of balance, it may not be economically effective depending on the potential productivity of the soil and the potential value of the crops to be grown on that soil. Major adjustments in base saturation often involve addition of lime (calcitic or dolomite), sulfate and/or potassium sulfate.

Crop residue must remain in the top 4″ of soil for this process to be effective. For example, fungi are ineffective and lack of oxygen slows the ability of bacterial microbes to break down old corn stalk residue if it is plowed under and rests six or eight inches below the soil surface.

Under these conditions, it takes up to several years to break down. In addition, nutrients such as nitrogen and potassium, which are released as the residue breaks down, leach into the groundwater rather than becoming available to the roots that proliferate in the top 4 – 6″ of soil.