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how it has been sucked from the earth and what can
be done to reverse this process. They are hoping to
find a way that can slow the increasingly rapid rise of
carbon dioxide ending up in the atmosphere.
The Organic Water Extracted Humic Acid® could
be the cure for global warming! Due to its ability
to fix carbon in the soil, it could prove to be
a very crucial tool in repairing our soils and
ecology to a point where global warming
could become a thing of the past. Researchers
are expanding their knowledge about carbon
sequestration in soils, by using Humic Acid in
land restoration programs, trying to find safe and
environmentally friendly ways of fighting against
Global warming.
Working with products such as Organic Water
Extracted Humic Acid®, can help us to stop the
loss of carbon and critical microbes from the
soil, that without these soil turns to mere dirt, a
process that unfortunately is rampant around the
globe. Humic Acid can heal soil, while improving
crop quality and increasing yields.
Humic Harvest’s WATER-
EXTRACTED HUMIC ACID®
H
umic/Fulvic acid and other humic
substances, collectively referred to as
humates, are the final stage of organic
matter as it degrades to its smallest possible size.
They are extremely complex molecules, formed
naturally over time by soil microorganisms as they
recycle the nutrients and organic matter present
in decaying plant material.
In healthy, pristine soils, humates are constantly
formed by the life and death cycles of plant roots,
microorganisms, and fungi in the soil. Modern
agricultural practices have disrupted this cycle
– in order to maintain good soil health, it is now
necessary to add this critical component back
into the soil, so that we can reap the benefits of
working with instead of against nature.
Decreases water requirements
Humic and fulvic acid improves soil health, which
in turn means crops require less water. Healthy
soil with abundant biological activity and organic
matter sequesters water and prevents runoff of
this and other valuable resources.
Unlocks bound nutrients in the soil for plant
uptake
While chemical fertilizers are often too unstable
to stick around long enough for plants to use,
minerals in the soil, both inherent and imported
through fertilizers and water, often become bound
and immobilized in the soil. This is a common fate
of phosphorous and other critical nutrients, which
“scale” in the soil in the same way they build up
in water pipes, damaging the structure of the soil.
Humic acid dissolves this mineral scale, which
both softens the soil for plant roots and breaks
the minerals back down to a plant available size.
Sustainable Agriculture Combats Climate
Change
It has come to light through new research that
land restoration could be very effective in playing
a major part in the process of sequestering CO2,
resulting in slowing down climate change. The
product Organic Water Extracted Humic Acid®
produced by the company Humic Harvest,
could be a vital tool, in helping to turn around
the effects caused by the degradation of soils
from unsustainable agriculture along with other
development projects. The negative impact of
these issues (combined), have caused billions of
tons of carbon to be released into the atmosphere.
Resulting in having a negative effect on the
overall climate.
The scientific community is conducting intense
investigations on the importance of soil carbon—
With the use of this amazing product by Humic
Harvest, it will help you to gain better results
while using less fertilizer. With the Humic
Harvest system, it will help you to prevent
precious nutrient and fertilizer loss, which 80%
can be lost due to runoff, nutrient lockup and
volatilization. Humic Harvest creates conditions
that offer protection to your investment and the
environment simultaneously!
The world’s cultivated soils have lost a
devastating 50% to 70% of their carbon stock,
much of this oxidized when it was exposed to
air becoming CO2, according to the renown
director—Rattan Lal, of Ohio State University’s
Carbon Management and Sequestration Center.
Using regenerative agricultural practices such
as those offered by Humic Harvest, can help
essentially turn back the carbon clock, working at
reducing the atmospheric CO2 while at the same
time boosting soil productivity and increasing
resilience to floods and drought. By bringing
carbon back to the soils it will not only offset fossil
fuels, but it will also help to feed the growing
global population. If our soil is degraded we will
not be able to feed the world’s population. Simply,
we need healthy soil to grow our food supplies,
without it we will not survive.
It has been stated by Scientists that more carbon
resides in soil than in the atmosphere and
all plant life combined; soil contains 2,500
billion tons of carbon, compared with 800
billion tons in the atmosphere and 560 billion
tons in plant and animal life. We need to return
carbon to where it belongs—the soil.
Change the Dynamics by Treating Soil Carbon
as a Renewable Resource
A plant draws carbon out of the air to form carbon
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