Improve, protect and revitalize farmland with original EM®

Many plant protection or fertilization measures, but also measures of soil treatment, can have a negative impact on the soil life and structure structure of soils. They alter the microbial composition and the activity and number of soil organisms. Mechanical soil compaction is thus intensified and the nutrient supply of the crop plants becomes worse. We have summarized the impact of individual measures and provide EM® tips that can prevent soil damage, revitalize inactive soils, improve plant health and secure yields.

Impact of plant protection measures on soil life

Herbicides:
Among the herbicides, in particular all glyphosate-containing agents are detrimental to soil life. They have an antimicrobial effect on microorganisms and living organisms in the soil, in which case microorganisms (for example lactic acid bacteria or Pseudomonas fluorescents, which acts against fungal parasites) which are considered to promote health are damaged or killed. Pathogenic or microorganisms with degenerative properties, on the other hand, are largely insensitive, and various types of fusaria are even promoted.

The living beings in the soil are also affected. Thus, researchers found that important rainworms for the aeration and intermixing avoid a soil with glyphosate residues and multiply in a significantly smaller number.

Dead plants, which have been introduced into the soil, release the active ingredient slowly and impair microbiology and soil life in the long term, which can lead to delayed germination and plants susceptible to illness.

Fungicides:
Fungicides play an increasingly important role in agriculture, because pathogenic or parasitic fungi can lead to high losses.
On the other hand, there are a number of beneficial fungi in the soil (mycorrhiza or decomposing fungi) and on the plants which are involved in displacing these pathogenic fungi. Recently, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have once again discovered the importance of microbial diversity in the soil for the plant’s colonization and health.

Insecticides:
Insecticides used are mainly different nerve pens, which influence the transmission of stimuli at different points in the body of insects.
The insecticides enter the soil as pickling or spraying agents. Since many of them also harm beneficial organisms, it is not possible to exclude the possibility of damage to earthy animals such as earthworms, mites, jumpers, lambs, arthropods, spiders and solipeds, but also microbiology.
The bodied animals accelerate the degradation of organic matter by mixing the topsoil or by mechanical comminution of organic substances to promote the degradation by fungi and bacteria. They crush “tough” coat layers, which makes microorganisms easier to access the contents of cells. In addition, the presence of soil species leads to much more favorable humus forms, for example by the excretion of rainworm droppings.

EM® tip:
With conventional farming methods, microbial soil life can be maintained and promoted through consistent EM® application. Pure arable farms should plan a total of 150 l of EMagro plus at least 400 l of water per hectare during the vegetation period divided into one or two applications per year.
Livestock-holding, conventional farms can reduce the application rate per hectare per year by the amount of manure treated with EM®.

Impact of industrial and mineral fertilizers on soil life

Economic fertilizer:
Economic fertilizers such as manure and dung can contain a high content of putrefaction bacteria as well as pathogenic germs – easily recognizable by the stinging odor. This mixture of degenerative microorganisms has to be displaced in the soil first by the group of building bacteria, so that the soil overall retains its microbial vitality. In addition, inhibitors such as antibiotics or disinfectants can weaken microorganisms and soil organisms.
If there are too few cultivating bacteria in the soil, growth depressions and an increased susceptibility to disease can be observed in the cultures after application of economic fertilizers. The nutrients contained in the economic fertilizer are hardly ever mineralized and available for planting or even humus when the microbiology is weakened. A high nutrient content is subject to the risk of leaching.

Aggressive degradation products by putrefaction also harm the micro-organisms in the soil, and a number of them perish. The preliminary comminution of organic matter for further digestion by microorganisms is only inadequate.

EM® tip :.
The regular treatment of manure with EMagro or even the spraying of the litter in the barn makes manure a fermented, nutritious organic fertilizer without digesters with high humus efficiency.

Mineral fertilizer:
Mineral fertilizers are intended to cover the rapid demand of cultivated plants. This function already tells a lot about its effect on soil life, because mineral fertilizers do not provide a “fodder” for microorganisms and micro-organisms and have no effect on humus build-up.
Worthy of note is that mineral fertilizers have the best effect when soil life is rich and intact and the soil is sufficiently humus. This is the only way to transport the nutrients quickly to the plant, which are also tied up for future use and are thus protected against leaching.

EM® tip: Due to the at least 2x annual soil treatment with the EM in conjunction with regular organic fertilization, microorganisms are cultivated in the soil. Microbial healthy soils attract a lively activity of micro-organisms and humus is built up. The result: costly mineral fertilizers are more effective and can even be reduced in the medium term.

Effect of soil treatment on soil life

Surface treatment:
Soil life is most active in the first 10 to 15 cm. A changing soil treatment therefore always leads to the fact that soil life is “buried alive” and has to rebuild afterwards.
In the case of inactive soils it can often be observed in the following year that unexplained crop residues are plowed back to the soil surface. The reason: stubble and other plant residues are deposited at a depth in which the preliminary comminution of the organic substance by micro-organisms no longer takes place and the rotten progresses very sluggishly.

EM® tip: In order to promote the reconstruction of microbiology after plowing and thus to give the smallest impetus the impetus to settle, EMagro should be planted as early as possible on the stubble, before or after sowing, and is to cereal Due to outside and bottom temperatures.
The direct application of soil in the seed would be optimal, whereby the soil is supplied directly with the regenerative original EM® in late seeds (for example, after beet or grains).
The second annual EM® application will take place in spring.

Conservation of soil:
The conservative soil treatment is the more gentle variant for microorganisms and soil animals. The structure of the soil is largely retained, which also has an impact on the water supply of the crops. A larger part of the rainworm runs is preserved, the activity of the ground animals is hardly affected and also the microorganism population, which has settled in the oxygen-rich topsoil, do not have to rebuild completely. If regenerative microorganisms dominate this soil layer, conservative soil treatment is also the best way to strengthen the health of the crop.

 

Only vermouth drops in conservative soil processing: Glyphosate-containing total herbicides are often used to kill the accumulated plants before sowing – with all of the above. Negative effects on microbiology and soil life. If it is not possible to dispense with this measure by means of far-reaching results, the support of microbiology is correspondingly important.

EM® tip: The original EM® supports the existing microorganisms in the soil in order to force the conversion processes and humus build-up in the topsoil. Particularly in the case of narrow cereal fruit sequences, a good foundation for a vital follow-up culture can be laid in this way.
Once again, the use of EMagro twice a year during the growing season, whereby livestock holding companies can reduce the application volume by using original EM®-upgraded commercial fertilizer.

Conclusion

Original EM® supplement the microorganisms in the ground and provide a regenerative milieu which also creates the ideal living conditions for the important micro-organisms. This results in a high activity in the upper soil, which provides the best conditions for germination, growth and maturity for all crop plants.
The application of EM® can compensate for negative effects on soil life through plant protection measures, fertilization and soil treatment and ensures long-term good soil health as the capital of the farm.