Do you know that calcium and sulfate deficiency can greatly impact your tobacco field? Both calcium and sulphate are crucial for the development of tobacco plants and their leaf expansion. Calcium deficiency generally occurs in sandy ground that has low pH conditions. You can start seeing the calcium deficiency symptoms...
Fall is a Time to Protect Your Soil With Calcium Sulfate Dihydrate
Do you want to prepare your soil for the next season? Although Calcium Sulfate Dihydrate can be applied to your soil any time from spring to fall, applying it in the fall after your harvest is something that will greatly benefit your next year’s yield. Just like in spring, applying...
Irrigation Water and Gypsum
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...
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...
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...