Taking Salt Out of Soil

 Potato growers…among others, it’s not a bad idea to attend trade expos like the one recently held in Caldwell. You get more information than going back to school…and it’s free. Soil enhancing products are becoming big business for good reason. Here’s a product from Bio-Tech Nutrients (Hmmmm, Bio-Tech is aptly named). Tim Williams…Agronomy Manager.

 (Williams) “It’s loaded with kelp, ground up kelp out of the ocean. What you get with that, and that’s where I was leading to with the breaking down of salt, is you get the capabilities of taking sodium chloride and breaking them apart and making sodium and chloride. Both of those are useable in the plant. Where sodium chloride is a negative to the plant, sodium and chloride are actually used by the plant. It also takes phosphate that’s been tied up in the soil for years and acts as a salt, and breaks it away from either calcium or excess lime, and makes it available to the plant. So that’s what we do. We take salts that are negatives and turn them into positives.”