Crop Biologicals

For millions of years nature has been growing plants of varying sizes in nearly all areas on the planet, from grasses to mighty trees. This has been possible because of a natural soil microbial life that lives in a semi-symbiotic way with the plant’s roots. The plants produce sugars for the microbes and in return, the microbes make nutrients available to the plant whilst simultaneously protecting them from disease.

We face a future where we will see our soils degrade at an ever-increasing speed as well as receiving sharply rising input costs if the term  ‘every nutrient has a microbe behind it’  is ignored. Only by rebuilding the soil food web and soil carbon levels will we see low-cost healthy crops being produced and the future of farming being protected.

Roots continuously secrete chemicals into the soil to liberate nutrients that are attached to soil particles. Bacteria and fungi that grow around the plant roots subsequently provide a bridge between the soil and the plant. This means that the correct nutrients can be taken up in balance. Exudates, a buffet of resources for anything in the rhizosphere, help plants procure nutrients, but they are also food sources for the microbes that are an important part of the soil microbiome. Exudates have an important role in holding soil together providing a glue that bonds the soil particulates together. These beneficially influence the soil structure. Additionally, many friendly soil microbials consume harmful pathogens thus reducing the possibility of disease when the conditions make disease a possible factor. 

Here at Aiva Fertiliser, we advise you on how to start balancing the nutrients in both the soil and the plant. We can also work with you to increase organic carbon in the soil, which is the starting point for intelligent farming, letting the soil microbial life do much of the work. To aid you in rebuilding your soils and their ecology, our biological microbial consortiums perform specific jobs within the soil: from disease resistance, freeing locked up Phosphorous, capturing free Nitrogen from the atmosphere and supplying the plant required nutrients. There is another way to grow, and it is sustainable and more economic.

Intensively managed soils are typically denuded of important microbial communities. The use of a consortia of synergistic bacteria, containing key species, is to help restore the benefits of a more natural ecosystem, aiding in soil regeneration and the availability of plant available nutrients.

Each of our biological products contains select biology, with a known performance within the soil, with the security of genetic integrity of the selected microbes by obtaining specific strains from registered ‘genetic banks’. This means Aiva Fertiliser can use consortia of synergistic bacteria containing key species to help restore the benefits of a more natural ecosystem. Each specific strain has been tested with various growth media in the fermentation process to ensure that sufficient numbers of microbes can be grown economically.

Our fermenters are both ISO 9001 and 14001 accredited and carry out a range of quality control checks for microbial counts and contaminants. The viability of the microbial products are also tested to well in excess of the pressures used in spraying equipment 60 – 700 bar to ensure ease of use.

The strains we use in our products were originally sourced from accredited repositories. As we carry out a continual program of product improvement by selective cultivation, our strains our sent back to the German DSMZ culture collection to carry out multi locus sequencing to confirm that the microbes we are using are still the same species (selective cultivation slightly changes the genetic make-up of the microbe so this is a part of our standard quality control). Once the species has been confirmed, because of the slight genetic changes from the original, it is assigned a new, unique strain number. This is why we can state that we use unique selected strains in our formulations.

We face a future where we will see our soils degrade at an ever-increasing speed as well as receiving sharply rising input costs if the term  ‘every nutrient has a microbe behind it’  is ignored. Only by rebuilding the soil food web and soil carbon levels will we see low-cost healthy crops being produced and the future of farming being protected.

Roots continuously secrete chemicals into the soil to liberate nutrients that are attached to soil particles. Bacteria and fungi that grow around the plant roots subsequently provide a bridge between the soil and the plant. This means that the correct nutrients can be taken up in balance. Exudates, a buffet of resources for anything in the rhizosphere, help plants procure nutrients, but they are also food sources for the microbes that are an important part of the soil microbiome. Exudates have an important role in holding soil together providing a glue that bonds the soil particulates together. These beneficially influence the soil structure. Additionally, many friendly soil microbials consume harmful pathogens thus reducing the possibility of disease when the conditions make disease a possible factor. 

Here at Aiva Fertiliser, we advise you on how to start balancing the nutrients in both the soil and the plant. We can also work with you to increase organic carbon in the soil, which is the starting point for intelligent farming, letting the soil microbial life do much of the work. To aid you in rebuilding your soils and their ecology, our biological microbial consortiums perform specific jobs within the soil: from disease resistance, freeing locked up Phosphorous, capturing free Nitrogen from the atmosphere and supplying the plant required nutrients. There is another way to grow, and it is sustainable and more economic.