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Does Eco-Friendly Disease Control work? If you are a gardener, farmer, or homeowner, you probably know how frustrating it can be to deal with pests and diseases that attack your plants and crops. You may have tried using various pesticides and fungicides to get rid of them, but you may have also wondered about the […]

Introduction Agriculture can play a significant role in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, several limiting factors need to be considered when using agriculture as part of the solution to reducing GHG emissions. Limiting factors to consider Here are some of the most significant limiting factors: Land use changes: Expanding agricultural land use can result […]

Introduction The agriculture industry has a significant impact on global carbon emissions. The sector is responsible for approximately 25% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide, mainly due to livestock production, fertilizer use and land use changes such as deforestation. In addition, as the world’s population continues to grow, so does the demand for food, which […]

Regenerative agriculture is an approach that restores natural ecosystems, increases biodiversity, and builds soil health. It uses customized fertilizer inputs, crop rotations, and other regenerative practices such as no-till and cover cropping. By mimicking the way nature works in an agricultural setting, regenerative farming can improve soil quality while preserving crop productivity. When done correctly, […]

Industrial Use in the building sector In the modern world, the industrial benefits multiply adsorber in functional clothing, insulation in the building industry, as carbon electrodes in supercapacitors for energy storage, food packaging, slurry treatment, air cleaning, silage agent, or feed supplement. Building Insulation: Biochar can be applied at thicknesses of up to 20 cm […]

Uses of Biochar Biochar is a rich carbon substance that is highly porous and entirely safe for environmental application. In addition to reducing soil emissions of greenhouse gases, biochar serves many purposes in regenerative agriculture, from improving soil quality to livestock feed productivity and water filtration treatments. It offers long-term amendments that include resistance to […]

In this series, we’ll explore the concept of biochar The term biochar dates to a 2,000-year-old practice by the ancient Indigenous civilizations of the Amazon, who created rich and fertile soil called terra preta, meaning “dark earth.” Soil gets its biochar deposits through natural events such as forest and grassland fires, but with the release […]

What is soil testing?  Soil testing is a very useful tool for the farmers to determine the fertility status of the soil. It includes various chemical processes to determine amount of available plant elements/nutrients in the soil, in addition gives details on the chemical, physical and biological properties that are vital for plant nutrition, or “soil […]

What are Chemical treatments? The largest group of plant infection, diseases, and crop loss are caused by pathogens such as fungi, viruses, etc and by weeds, pests’ attack. Chemical treatments: a method of agriculture disease management using different chemicals. Chemical treatments act on these diseases causing pathogens and are widely applied in agriculture to control […]

What Are Humic Substances? Plants at the end of the life cycle get decomposed in the presence of microorganisms and with the help of mineralization tend to return to soil in the form of organic matter. These large organic carbon-chain complexes composed of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and sulfur, contributing towards the brown or black […]

What is Pseudomonas fluorescens? Pseudomonas spp. are bacterial species ubiquitous in agricultural soils, well adapted to growing in the rhizosphere and well suited as biocontrol and growth-promoting agents (Weller et al., 2007). Pseudomonas spp. rapidly utilize root and seed exudates, multiply in rhizosphere and spermoshphere environment and in the interior of the plants, produce a […]

What is Bacillus spp.? Bacillus spp. group of bacteria have own acronym as plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), form a biofilm on plant root to promote plant growth and provide defensive action to fending off plant pathogens(George H, 2019). The population of B. subtilis, B. licheniformis and B. velezensis are the most common ones and […]

What is Trichoderma spp.? Trichoderma spp. are genus of fungi commonly found in endophytic plant symbionts, grows along the outermost root surface, and feeds on soil microbes attracted to the root system. This fungus grows with root intercellular spaces, coordinates plant defense system and is widely used to control disease, enhance plant growth, and improve […]

What is Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi? Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) also known as “root allies” is a major group of root mutualistic endophytic soil microorganisms, develops mutual symbiotic association with roots of most terrestrial plant species including grass, clover, legume tree, etc. These are obligate biotrophs dependent on the host root tissue for carbohydrate supply and […]

Soil health depends on a constant balance of nutrients (aka co-factors) and soil life. This is why 90% of our customized crop health therapy protocols and custom fertilizer blends at Custom Agricultural Intelligence Inc. are geared towards soil health. We believe that a healthy soil will output a healthy crop, it is that simple. For […]

Have you ever wondered what the best timing to foliar apply nutrients to your crop is?  Growers know that there are many interconnecting factors that affects crop management and building bushels.  Knowing when to apply the right crop nutrient, in this case, micronutrient foliar application, is an important dynamic in the process of building bushel. Here we look […]

What are Chelates? A chelate is a chemical compound that is formed when nutrients bind with certain organic acids.  This process is referred to as “Chelation” and it enables nutrients to travel within the plant cells and prevents them from leaving the plants leaves via evaporation. The biochemistry of Chelation can be quite complex so here […]

We’ve written about ways to improve yields in other blog posts and we will add to that information here.  This topic is important to you and that’s why it is important to us. As with animals, some environmental factors cause a stress response in plants.  However, unlike humans and animals, plants are not mobile, they are […]

Stress is one of the major limitations to crop growing worldwide. As crop growers and crop input consultants, knowing how to manage crop stress by utilising macro/micro nutrients and plant growth hormones (PGH) is important. The right combination of Macro/micro nutrients & PGH’s can be used to help the crop develop tolerance to prevailing stress conditions. This […]

Nutrient absorption is the plants’ ability to “uptake” nutrients in the soil and use it for growing plant tissue.  In this blog post we examine the plants’ nutrient absorption and ask the question – what if we can use science to improve nutrient absorption. What is nutrient absorption? Nutrient absorption is the plants’ ability to […]

Building Bushels with any crop starts with prompt seed germination, establishment of vigorous roots systems and uniform crop emergence. If one or all of the above are hindered by any sort of crop stress (drought, frost or pest), the crop would be off to a poor start and thus unable to maximise its yield potential. There are […]

In this post, we want to tell you more about how we (the human side of Custom Agricultural Intelligence) thinks, believes, and conduct business in the industry. Our customers are first.  Yes, it’s a cliché and we’re sure you’ve heard this before, but this is not just a slogan we have, not just a plaque […]

What is crop health? Crop growing can be very rewarding work.  It can also be hard work.  Fortunately, new scientific advancement has made crop growing easier and more accurate than it was in the past.  This is mostly thanks to the advancement of technologies and specialized skill sets that help detect crop infestations early and […]

What does soil health mean? Soils across Canada and indeed the world vary in what they are made of and how they interact with the environment around them.  The soil type is often influenced by the local climate, organisms, type of sediments etc. The term soil health generally refers to the relationship that the soil has […]

All hormones are proteins but not all proteins are hormones. That’s what we learnt from our biochemistry class. We all know the function of proteins in plants and animals. Hormones make things happen.  Plant growth hormones are produced by ALL crops at different stages of their growth cycle. You can think plant hormones as the […]

Macro – does not mean more important.  Think of macro and micro nutrients as the ‘food’ and ‘multivitamins’ respectively that the plant needs to grow. As humans, we need adequate amount of food to help with our metabolic processes. The multivitamins are important as well. Plants are like humans in this regard. Macro nutrients are […]

Crop growing has changed considerably since our grandparent’s homestead. Gone are the days where crop growers seed a crop and come back in at harvest to combine. We now know much more about soil health via soil testing, crop health via tissues sampling and the use of advanced sensing measurements such as the Normalised Difference […]