Ian and Diane Haggerty

After years of conventional farming, Ian and Diane Haggerty realized their system was vulnerable to dry seasons. Input costs were steadily increasing without corresponding increases in productivity. Soil tests showed adequate nutrient levels, but tissue tests revealed nutrients were not getting to plants in appropriate balance, despite a comprehensive fertilizer program. Maximizing crop production in dry years had become a real struggle and hard pans in their soils were severely restricting root growth. So, the Haggerty’s started to research biologically-based farming systems with the aim of increasing their soil’s microbial population, nutrient availability and moisture holding capacity.  Optimizing microbiome integrity of soil, plant, animal and ultimately human microbiome is front and center with this approach.