VIGERE SOIL AND WATER PROGRAMS

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  The demand for agricultural food & fiber continues to expand worldwide with the impact of production practices placing ever increasing environmental demands on limited natural resources. In response to these impacts’ alternative methods of crop production which provide regenerative effects to soil and water ecosystems are being developed and deployed upon natural resources which are utilized and held in trust for future generations.  “VIGERE” Latin meaning vigorous growth or to thrive was developed to provide both nutrient and pest management functions biologically utilizing all natural non-GMO beneficial microbes applied to both cropland as well as natural areas that may receive off target inputs of production. To accomplish this task biologically requires a working knowledge of the growth habits of the native microbial populations and the interactions of the crop species lifecycle. Microbes can perform a basic pest control function by maintaining large bacterial populations along the leaf canopy, stems and roots of the crop plant which limits the resources available to the plant pathogens below the economic threshold of the crop. Large microbe populations are also encouraged along the root tips to greatly facilitate nutrient synthesis and absorption into the plants’ vascular system. This nutrient sequestering by the bacterial biomass maintains nutrients in a temporarily insoluble form allowing beneficial bacteria to regenerate soil structure which increases the infiltration capacity that enhances the water holding capacity of soils. With the introduction of native aquatic Purple Sulfur Bacteria (PSB) onto soil & water surfaces, a unique scientific relationship is established where the PSB produces viable plant sugar and makes it available to the plant as an alternative source of energy which can be critical to crop development at certain times in the growth cycle of the crop. Another important attribute of PSB is its ability to thrive in low oxygen environments. When PSB cycles through soil it can enter areas of low oxygen concentration in the soil profile. In order to survive PSB breaks apart in the presence of carbon a nitrate N03 ion from the nitrate molecule to acquire oxygen O2 in effect changing the escaped off target nitrate into harmless N2 nitrogen gas which exits the soil profile into the atmosphere protecting ground water resources. The addition of PSB treatments creates in effect a biological Best Management Practice (BMP) which can be verified through fate of transport nutrient analysis leading to a presumption of compliance for nutrient elements of impairments. PSB treatments include water features of only two acres to lakes of 200 acres or more. Golf courses, athletic fields and playgrounds as well as high pedestrian traffic municipal parks can greatly enhance turf vigor with regular use. Environmental treatment applications are varied and include individual septic tanks, drain fields, grease traps as well as drainage canals with no hauling charges as the treated biomass oxidizes back into the atmosphere. The greatest value established from the application of beneficial microbes is ecosystem restoration. With regular maintenance baseline populations form the foundational food chain enhancing the entire ecosystem.    

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"We do the Plantin...God does the Increasin." 

-Miss Janie Graham, Farmer