The Facts

What is limiting your yield?

All soil nutrients are essential for a healthy soil. Some nutrients are required in smaller amounts, but that doesn’t mean they are not essential. Each nutrient has an impact on all the other nutrients. Just like the ‘bit actors’ in a good movie, they all have their part to play. The opposite visual clearly shows that a soil is as good as the lowest mineral level. Justus von Liebig demonstrated this principal with his Law of Minimum which states that a deficiency of any single nutrient is enough to limit yield.

**Your soil is as healthy as the lowest nutrient level.**

Just like our bodies which need a balanced diet of vitamins and minerals, soils need a balance of minerals. An unbalanced soil can affect nutrient uptake causing plant growth or animal health to suffer; in turn effecting yield, quality and cost of production.

Moulder’s Chart clearly shows the complexity of the impact on other minerals when there are high levels of particular minerals in a soil. One can cancel out the other. This impacts negatively on the uptake and digestion of the plant. As well as occurring in the soil naturally, or as a result of historic fertiliser practice, nutrient interactions can be the result of imbalances caused by the over application of a nutrient. (Ref: Lancrop Laboratories). A comprehensive soil analysis is vital to find the hidden inefficiencies, followed by a treatment of a balanced complex mineral amendment.

Adding the minerals in rock and ore form, adding non-soluble minerals along with natural soluble, will allow the soil health to thrive as we will not only add the missing plant minerals but the whole complex of minerals that living creatures, above and below ground, need to thrive. It is widely accepted that there is link between low mineral levels, and particularly low copper, with flower frost. Other than healthy soils, is there another way to permanently decrease unwanted plant species, control insect infestations and fungal diseases?

I have already converted my not-so-productive “sodic clay paddocks” to a much higher production level, due to improved soil health I have taken areas of sodic clay that only grew barley grass to now growing medic with the barley grass disappearing naturally. I always noticed how a paddock had different plants species growing in different parts of the paddock and the results I see here is that I can amend any soil to grow the plants that are productive for agriculture.