Healthy soils are not the engine that produce healthy plants. Rather, healthy plants are the engine that creates healthy soil.

Healthy plants send the majority of the photosynthate they produce into the soil as root exudates, unlike unhealthy plants which transmit only very small quantities.  This larger quantity of photosynthates fuels soil microbial metabolism which releases carbon from photosynthate back into the soil environment, efficiently building soil organic matter.

In this presentation, John Kempf will describe how to use microbial inoculants and foliar sprays applied at specific “trigger points” to hack the system and jumpstart this cycle of healthy plants building healthy soils. The fastest way to regenerate soil health and build soil organic matter is to grow exceptionally healthy crops.