Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Sea Solids
When major elements are in relative balance, it still proves much
cheaper to supply trace nutrients in a broad-spectrum way with ocean
solids rather than to deal with zinc, iron, manganese, etc. A starter supply
of nutrients around the seeds should guarantee the nutritional needs of
essential elements throughout the life of the plant. The harvest of 10 to
20 percent more seed from the use of even one sea solids treatment is
now a matter of record. Competent farmers have come to obtain such
yields on acres too numerous to be considered a test plot.
Often, poor soil cannot be balanced in a single year. It is precisely
such a condition that ratified the use of ocean solids. As biologically cor-
rect fertilizer, ocean solids can make up for the imbalance and limitations
and produce better crops while soil conditions are repaired. It does not
seem possible for a hostile environment to complex the nutrient load
contained in ocean solids. These nutrients are always available to start
the germinating plant with more vigor, vitality and more complete natur-
al absorption capacity. The cell wall structure can be more efficient for
the intake of nutrition.
It will undoubtedly be a requirement for farmers to know as much
about the soil as they do about the science of agriculture. He or she will
have to let the soil tell what is right as well as what is wrong, the way an
old-time physician looked to signs and symptoms rather than laboratory
results.
— Charles Walters in Fertility from the Ocean Deep
