Humic Acid

Humic Acid (HA) molecules work to quickly increase organic matter and bind nutrients to soil particles until they are needed by plants, thus preventing soil conditions that lead to runoff and volatilization.

HA's chemical efficiency can be applied to fertilisers because of its capability of increasing the permeability of plant cells for controlled uptake or available nutrients and can be mixed with similarly reduced rates of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, to enabling cost savings to the end user.

There is also the beneficial component that humic acid acts to bind with and breaks down chemical residues in the soil thus decreasing their long term negative impact.

Humic Acid also;

1/.  Unlocks bound nutrients in the soil for plant uptake 
While chemical fertilisers are often too unstable to stick around long enough for plants to use, minerals in the soil, both inherent and imported through fertilisers and water, often become bound and immobilized in the soil. This is a common fate of phosphorous and other critical nutrients, which “scale” in the soil in the same way they build up in water pipes, damaging the structure of the soil. HA dissolves this mineral scale, which both softens the soil for plant roots and breaks the minerals back down to a plant available size. 

2/.  Increases organic matter
Organic matter serves many diverse functions within healthy soil:

• Improves soil structure
• Buffers salts, minerals, and toxins from plant roots
• Regulates soil PH

 3/.  Increases Cation Exchange capacity
Cation exchange capacity is crucial for nutrient mobility and biological function in the soil.

4/. Stimulates beneficial biological activity
Humic and fulvic acid contains oxygen in its molecular structure, and provides this oxygen to beneficial soil biology, even if the soil itself is very low in oxygen.

5/. Leads to healthier, stronger plants that are naturally more resistant to pests and disease
It has long been observed that the healthier a plant is, the more naturally resistant to pests and disease it is. Chemical herbicides, pesticides, fungicides are utilised to kill off the invader, but do nothing to support the long term health of the plant or the soil it depends on. HA's help to boost the entire system as a whole, enhancing the plants native defenses against any type of invader.

6/. Decreases water requirements
Humic and fulvic acid improves soil health, which in turn means crops require less water. Healthy soil with abundant biological activity and organic matter sequesters water and prevents runoff of this and other valuable resources.