With the Covid 19 pandemic tightening its grip with its variants even in 2021, more and more people are turning towards home gardening as a means of escape and to discover their hidden farming talents. Growing simple vegetables in the backyard or home garden and then cooking them has become...
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Water Infiltration and Containment
The agriculture sector does not only feed us, but also plays a vital role in assisting the economy and business sectors of the world. As obvious as it may sound, farming is not possible without sufficient water, but how can we get the right amount of water when there are...
Lawns and Gardens Thrive with Gypsum
A stunning lawn and garden can be a challenge to maintain, but worth the myriad benefits. With many areas of the US expected to experience record drought conditions in 2021, municipalities are likely to be rationing or restricting watering of lawns. Increasing your lawn and garden’s water retention ability is...
Home Gardening Benefits from Using High Quality Gypsum
This past Covid-19 pandemic year has dramatically changed the home gardening landscape. In the early days of 2020 with widespread closures and uncertainty, supply chains for certain household and food items broke down. Some products were suddenly unavailable, and this reminded us all just how dependent we are on our...
Gypsum Re-joining the Regenerative Agriculture Conversation
If we learned anything in 2020, it was how to adapt to new circumstances and to develop new strategies to cope in our ever-changing world. Farmers are not exempt from this challenge. If anything, their daily task of feeding the planet is harder than ever. In recent years, with a...
EcoGEM, LLC Supports the Decade in Agriculture:
EcoGEM, LLC, a Denver based Soil Health Company, uses Mother Nature’s Own Technology to help Heal Herself.We are proud that in celebration of National Ag Day, EcoGEM, LLC has joined the Decade of Ag movement, the first food and agricultural sector-wide movement to align around a shared vision and outcomes for the sustainable food and ag systems...
Carbon – Agriculture’s New Cash Crop
At the time of this writing, the confirmation hearing for Secretary Tom Vilsack’s nomination for Secretary of Agriculture under President Biden is currently underway. One of the key cornerstones of Secretary Vilsack’s agenda is to help farmers capture, store, and get paid for the new cash crop in agriculture –...
Making Old Technology New Again
With the increase in focus globally on how humans impact the environment, no group is being challenged more than the people who are responsible for feeding us all. Global populations are projected to increase to almost 10 billion people in the next thirty years, and farmers are faced with the...
Organic Food
We are a leader in organic, engineered agricultural and food calcium sulfate amendments and products that provide tremendous benefits to plant and soil, and health benefits in organic food. While synthetic fertilizers are not permitted in organic farming, our calcium sulfate, or organic soil fertilizer offers a vital source of...
World Agriculture GAP report 2019
Ag productivity growth is too slow, report says Agricultural productivity growth, a measure of the increased output of crops and livestock with existing or fewer inputs, is not keeping pace with global demands, according to the newly released 2019 Global Agricultural Productivity (GAP) Report. Agricultural productivity growth is growing globally...