Rhyzogreen on Row Crops: What Farmers Need to Know

So there's a lot of noise around soil health in the ag industry. Whether you're a farmer, a rancher, raise hay, corn, soybeans, wheat, whatever it is. There's a lot of noise around soil health, regenerative ag, sustainability, all of this. What we're gonna do today is unpack and demystify soil health in four simple steps. My name is Trevor. I'm founder and co owner of Rio Nutrition. At Rio Nutrition, we're the home of the tub that pays for itself, and rhizogreen, the soil stimulant that pays for itself. And today we're going to talk about the four pillars that impact soil health with the use of Rhyzogreen. That is life in the soil, fungal, worm population, and water infiltration, and why this all matters. The first pillar we're going to talk about is microbial biomass, which is a fancy term for life in the soil. Why does life in the soil even matter? Long before rhizogreen came along, life in the soil was as mother nature created it, and the biology or the functioning life in the soil serves to unlock nutrients and make the plant available. Now, we have measured how does Rhyzogreen actually impact life in the soil, and we've done four forty seven tests across the western half of the US and Canada. Across those four hundred and forty seven tests, we've found that increases the life in the soil by fifty six percent. That's the average. This is significant because if you think of how much weight or how many pounds of soil microbes are in the top six inches of soil in an acre, all the research I've done comes out with between one and two thousand pounds. Okay. Let's go with one thousand pounds to be conservative. And if we increase that by fifty six percent, which is what our data has shown across six years and four hundred and forty seven replications, we've got an extra five hundred and sixty pounds of soil microbes. While they're alive, as we know, they're converting nutrients into a plant available form. However, they have a life cycle and they keep repopulating, but as they die off, an amazing thing happens. Seven to ten percent of their body weight by mass is nitrogen. Now this is an unintended positive consequence we see in working with mother nature because if you take five hundred and sixty extra pounds of soil microbes as they die off, let's say in a space of a year, and we increase it by seven percent to be conservative, that's an an additional thirty nine point two pounds of nitrogen per acre. While the rest of the world is in consternation about fertilizer prices, synthetic inputs, global markets, supply chain headaches, and on and on. The secret is right beneath our feet. We're not saying rhizogreen can completely replace fertilizer, but folks, there is ways to work with mother nature that many of us haven't even realized. The answer is right under our feet. So to sum up on microbial mass, we see a fifty six percent increase, which means we're liberating and releasing more nutrients and making them plant available. That's the number one thing. Number two, as I mentioned, is that translates into naturally occurring nitrogen. It's almost like we've created a nitrogen production mechanism in the soil. The second one we're gonna unpack is fungal. Over the last six years, we've done four forty one tests to measure how rhyzogreen impacts the fungal in the soil. Now in a forest system, your fungal will be 5x of what it is in farmland. So that just gives you an idea of how mother nature has it and create it. The higher the fungal, the healthier the soil. So we went after that and started measuring that and have done it across four forty one tests. What we saw was quite exhilarating, a ninety six percent increase in fungal average across all of those tests. Why does that matter? Well, I wanna take you back in time to prior to the Internet. So we live in a small town, Redwood Falls, Minnesota, population fifty five hundred. If I wanna buy anything for the farm or ranch, I go to the local store here in town. It happens to be called Runnings, that is my source for almost everything I need here on my ranch. In the event of the internet, now suddenly we can source. If I need a pair of jeans, I can source them from anywhere and it comes to me here in Redwood Falls, Minnesota. The fungal in the soil is like communication highways, transportation highways, along which nutrients, water, oxygen flows. It's like an extension of the root. It's not part of the root. It's an extension of the root. So that plant can go fetch nutrients or water from distances away. In doing that, we actually boost the nutrient cycling or nutrient exchange, and the biggest thing is drought resilience. Water is the most finite resource in agriculture, period. With increasing the fungal population of our soils, we can enable those plants to go fetch and to to have a broader reach. No different than the Internet helped me, you know, versus being forced to buy local, which I still support buying local by all means, but it enabled me to extend my reach. As we build these natural nutrient cycles, it goes hand in hand with the fact that we reduce our reliance on synthetic fertilizer sources. Next one we're going to unpack is earthworm population analysis. Some people say, now that's weird. You guys get giddy about earthworms. Well, I don't apologize. I really do. If nothing else, measuring the worm population in your soil is the cheapest way to measure how you're impacting life in the soil. So you dig a cubic foot of dirt and a Rhyzogreen treated versus control and do a worm count and then measure the difference because worms are indicative or predictive of life in the soil. So we have done one hundred and seventy three worm digs. We saw one hundred and twenty four percent increase in worm count. That means that we've increased the life and the worm is part of that food chain as you support the base or the foundation of the food chain, being microbes. We're seeing it visibly. You can see it with the naked eye. How many worms were increased? A hundred and twenty four percent. Why do worms matter? Well, obvious thing is they tunnel through the dirt and we get aeration of your of your soil that way. And and aerating your soil, they improve water infiltration and reducing compaction. Reducing compaction is huge. Look at the size of the tires, float tires, a lot of different agricultural solutions that folks are chasing to reduce compaction. So that's a big deal. And then probably the biggest thing for me, they move through the soil and they ingest dirt. And what comes out the back end is between five and fifteen percent more plant available. This is huge because it's a sidekick benefit of working with mother nature. Now besides all that, when those earthworms die off, about ten percent of their body weight is nitrogen. All the research shows that in the top six inches of soil in an acre, you'll get between about one hundred and four hundred pounds of earthworms by weight. So let's go with one hundred to be conservative, and we increased that by a hundred and twenty four percent, which is our average across those hundred and seventy three tests we did. That is an additional one hundred and twenty four pounds of earthworms. At ten percent of their body weight being nitrogen, we've just added twelve point four pounds of nitrogen. Again, not by sourcing it from overseas, but by working with mother nature and activating that beautiful system right beneath our feet. The fourth one, and one that I'm probably the most passionate about, is how Rhyzogreen impacts the infiltration rate, your water infiltration rate. When you get an inch of rainfall or an inch of irrigation water, the big question is how much can we use? Water is the most finite resource in agriculture, period. Drought is real. Managing and conserving water as a resource is one of the biggest things we can do. And so we have done eighty two water infiltration studies. We've seen an average increase in the rate of absorption of one hundred and forty percent across those eighty two studies. Why does that matter? First thing is pretty obvious. More water is getting to the root zone. Less water is running off, so we have less wastage. And with runoff comes erosion, and erosion means the loss of our precious, precious, precious topsoil, call it black gold. With the use of rhizogreen, we have changed the structure of that soil. We've talked about it before as more of a chocolate cake consistency versus a fudge consistency. With a chocolate cake, you've got aggregation, you've got pore spaces, you've got air spaces, you've got a structure where that those nutrients can cycle and life can flourish versus a hard compacted fudge like consistency which doesn't lend itself to that natural cycling. In changing the structure of our soils with the use of Rhyzogreen, we mitigate compaction risk and everything that comes with compaction. So let's sum up. We're increasing life in the soil by fifty six percent. We're increasing the fungal by ninety six percent. We're increasing the worm count by one hundred and twenty four percent. And finally, we're increasing the water infiltration rate by one hundred and forty percent. Why does this all matter? Well, think of it. We're investing in the production capacity of our land. It enables us to become less reliant or dependent on synthetic inputs, which cost money and headaches. And finally, it increases the production capacity of our land so that we can live purpose at Rhyzogreen Nutrition, and that is driving profitability back to rural North America. That's who we are. That's what we eat, sleep, and breathe, and we do so without any apology. It's you, the rancher, the farmer, the grower, the men and women in the salt of the earth that we are passionate to help. You have the the resources, the potential, the gold right under your feet. We wanna help you get more out of it. We wanna help you get more out of every acre.