John Kempf explains why biological farming inputs create outsized results when combined. Stacking products across five categories—bacterial inoculants, fungal inoculants, biostimulants—produces synergistic effects that exceed what each alone could do. His company designs programs to deliberately trigger these amplified responses.
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What is unique about biological agriculture versus the contemporary agriculture of today is that when you're working with chemistry, it's relatively uncommon to get geometric effects where 1 1 something more than 2. It doesn't happen often if you're using soluble ions and using chemistry fertilizer, if you're using ammonium sulfate, urea, what have you. I don't want to say it's easy, but it's also not that difficult to create a disproportionately large response with biology. Our observation has been that the greatest success occurs when you stack things together from different categories and you create these synergistic stacks. So if you have a, let's say, a bacterial inoculant plus a fungal inoculant, plus a bacterial and fungal biostimulant, plus a plant biostimulant. You've now touched all 5 of those different categories. Now, if you have a much greater probability in biological systems of producing this disproportionate response, that she— this geometric response where 1 1 is something very different from 2. It's— it can be 11. It can be 15, it can be 5. It's, it's unexpected results. The way we design our products and our nutrition programs at Advancing EcoAgriculture is you get, you get the most effective synergistic effects when you grow cross-domain and you create this synergistic stack that covers each of those domains, that covers each of those modules, if you will.
