Mycorrhizal Fungi Can Offer 'Logistics' To Your Soil

This is Tim Hammerich of the Ag Information Network with your Farm of the Future Report.

There are a lot of biological products on the market. But they run the gamut in terms of their efficacy and consistency. Most of them are also bacteria-based products. Groundwork BioAg focuses instead on a mycorrhizal fungi product. North America General Manager Andrew Duff says this sets them apart.

Duff… “Where we really differentiate is, the ability to bring nutrients to the plant and solubilize fertilizer that is already in the soil and otherwise is not gonna be broken down and plant available. So the mycorrhizal network, we call it the logistics of the soil, the network of fungi, that extend 10 to 100 times beyond the root zone. And so you can only imagine the additional nutrients and moisture that the plant can mine if it has that fungi network in place versus when it doesn't. Bacteria is fairly easy to manufacture in a lab, whereas the fungi is grown in vivo on host plants, so it takes a longer time to produce that, and an additional investment.”

The product is available under the name Rootella.