Soil Health Balance: This encompasses the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soil that support its functionality. Healthy soil features structure and chemistry that supports microbial life via organic matter, nutrient availability, and carbon cycling. Balanced soils also promote disease suppression through beneficial microbes that outcompete pathogens.

Plant Charge Balance: This equilibrium encompasses the electrical charge of plant cells, organs, and tissues crucial for maintaining plant signaling and overall plant health. This balance primarily involves cations (positively charged ions, such as potassium, calcium, and magnesium) and anions (negatively charged ions, like nitrate, phosphate, and sulfate). It is essential for nutrient uptake, water regulation, and overall plant vitality. Disruptions can lead to stress and hinder growth, making plants more susceptible to diseases.

Interconnections:These elements are interlinked: healthy soil fosters nutrient availability, which supports plant charge balance. Well-balanced plants contribute organic matter back to the soil, enhancing its health and carbon cycling. A steady soil, nutrient, and plant system leads to a crop that can adapt to its environment when faced with abiotic stress, pests, or diseases ultimately increasing yields.

Understanding and managing these interconnections is key to achieving sustainable agricultural production and ecosystem resilience.

“Our Midwest agronomy team will provide customer service that is a hallmark of Redox,” Moon added. “Our team members Tyler Jones and Aimee Burke are outstanding, and they bring an impressive track record of successful collaborations with growers.”

The Redox Pathway – Midwest Program includes two flagship products and revolutionary new technology with a decade of research behind it. Banx™ is a powerful tool for increasing yield potential. It is specifically formulated with potassium, phosphorus, zinc and boron, as well as biostimulant properties, to aid phenolic compound production and provide stellar abiotic stress defense and nitrogen metabolism. Mainstay Si™ is a microencapsulated silicon and calcium-based product focusing on the synergy of silicon and calcium to improve cell wall structure. RDX-N™ has a patent-pending combination of biostimulants that increase nitrogen optimization, including a 50-percent reduction in synthetic liquid nitrogen applications while maintaining peak production and quality.

Interested parties can find out more at redoxgrows.com/midwest/, including details on our September 25 webinar and signing up to speak with a Redox Bio-Nutrients agronomist.

Amendments including components like soluble/active carbon, calcium and surfactants can all help to improve soil condition and improve plant growing conditions.

The addition of soluble carbon (fulvic acid, humic acid, longer chain carbon and carboxylic acid) components can help to improve soil nutrient availability, sequester salts, stimulate root growth, improve moisture holding capacity, improve CEC and stimulate soil biological activity.  The addition of soluble carbon is particularly beneficial in intensively farmed soils as carbon becomes oxidized through tillage and intensive cropping practices.

Calcium is also an important soil conditioning amendment.  Calcium in cation form (Ca⁺⁺) flocculates or “opens” soils.  High levels of sodium and/or magnesium tighten clay particle pore space due to the relatively small size of the Mg⁺⁺ and Na⁺ cations that bind soil aggregates together.  Ca⁺⁺ is a much larger cation that creates larger spaces between soil/clay particles.

Another beneficial component to incorporate to improve soil condition is the use of surfactants.  Surfactants act to reduce water surface tension, allowing water to move more easily through soil pore spaces.  When irrigation water is applied to soils, it carries salts which can be beneficial as fertilizer. It also can become toxic for your plant when salt concentrations become too high, or the mix becomes toxic when containing excess levels of salts like sodium, chloride, boron, sulfur and others.  Surfactants help to keep the soil solution moving through soil pores and reduce excess concentrations in the root zone.

Ultimately, the best solution will likely contain combinations of the above components.  Incorporating surfactants with soluble carbon and/or calcium can provide a synergistic approach to improving soil condition.

Redox Bio-Nutrients is a leader in providing these technologies for growers.   Please see some product descriptions below and reach out to us with specific questions on how these products can help improve soil conditions on your ranch.

Technology from Redox Bio-Nutrients includes 36 agricultural products, six of which are organic, and 13 golf and sports turf products through the Redox TurfRx line. Redox has obtained six patents and 40 trademarks, with products sold in 48 states and 20 countries.

Moon and Kelly remain extremely active in the company. Darin and Valerie’s family members play pivotal roles at Redox, including sons Colton and Kody. Colton is the company’s president and Kody serves in several roles within company leadership.

Redox was among the first to provide biostimulant technology, in addition to highly efficient, carbon-based plant nutrition. Today the plant biostimulant marketplace is occupied by some 1,200 companies.

“We are constantly challenging ourselves to help growers get the most from their fields and orchards,” said Colton Moon. “Sustainability must go beyond doing more with less to also factor in a grower’s bottom line. Just as our family business includes multiple generations, we are working hard to help ensure future generations of family farmers.”

Redox Bio-Nutrients LLC provides superior plant nutrition with biostimulants to help growers produce abundant, high quality crops through Redox Homeostasis, or plant charge balance.  Find out more at redoxgrows.com/30th-anniversary/.

The high value crops that we assist growers with in California’s coastal areas often face stress from a host of factors, including untimely rain, excessive heat, high winds and salt accumulation in their soils from irrigation and fertigation during our long growing season. Some of the most effective products we work with include Mainstay™ Calcium 2.0/Organic, Mainstay™ Si/Organic, Penecal™/Organic, diKaP™, H85™/Organic and Rx Platinum™. 

Executing a balanced nutrition program will ensure that your crops are poised to weather the constant barrage of abiotic and biotic stress that your crop will encounter every day.

Redox Bio-Nutrients products are designed with this in mind, providing nutrition in ionic, plant-available form. Our products are chelated, complexed, and encapsulated, using carbon-based technologies to provide the balance your crop needs.  We call this balanced approach achieving “Redox Homeostasis”.

Simply put, when you incorporate Redox products, your crop will receive a source of nutrition that will provide the balance your crop needs to deliver optimal productivity.

The problem is any number of stresses, ranging from bad weather to disease, can severely reduce a plant’s ability to balance ROS. When a plant is out of balance, its growth and productive capacity suffer.

 A healthy plant has the proper balance of cations (+) and anions (-). An equal amount of both creates redox homeostasis, or plant charge balance.

I have devoted 30 years to studying plants, with the goal of helping produce healthy farm fields and nutritious food for consumers. Through countless hours of research, payoffs have come and are now happening at a faster rate.

 Technology from Redox Bio-Nutrients reflects our best, continually evolving scientific knowledge. Our products have highly targeted Redox Active Substrates, which act as critical molecules for plants to achieve redox homeostasis.  These Redox Active Substrates are created using the highest quality material that is fractionated (broken down at the molecular level) through our painstaking process.  The end results are exceptional products, which allow the plants to be more self-sufficient and have less need for large amounts of traditional synthetic fertilizers.  Our Redox product line helps your plants achieve redox homeostasis, leaving them perfectly situated to devote their energy to growing healthier, stronger, higher-yield crops.

It is gratifying to know all our painstaking research is yielding such positive results. With all the challenges our world faces, sound science can truly help grow healthier plants with less synthetic fertilizer and ensure a brighter future for us all.

“The quality of courses and increasing interest in golf make Japan a highly-valuable market for our company,” remarked Redox Bio-Nutrients President Colton Moon, who will serve on the Axxion Board with Kubo and Ogata. “Mory has done an exceptional job expanding interest in our products, and there’s tremendous promise for our technology with many of Japan’s agricultural crops. We are excited about the opportunity to grow our agricultural product sales throughout East Asia.”

Axxion has long term purchase contractors with Redox and one other supplier for exclusive distribution rights in Japan.

Agriculture is a principal industry throughout East Asia, and Redox Bio-Nutrients technology can help growers bolster quality and yield of a variety of bountiful crops that flourish in the region. For the past 30 years, Redox Bio-Nutrients has provided superior plant nutrition with added biostimulants to help growers grow abundant, high quality crops through Redox Homeostasis, or plant charge balance.

We fractionate amino acids, then reassemble them in optimal percentages. One of the clear victories from this painstaking approach is the glycine we use in our products. As a catalyst for building protein, the glycine we have fractionated is of the highest quality, which is a huge help in generating a beneficial plant reaction.

Auto racing provides a good analogy to the importance of fractionation. The worst thing a driver wants in a race car is extra weight. The same thing holds true for organic extracts. I want just what is needed, nothing else. We at Redox Bio-Nutrients are focused on active ingredients, instead of gross concentration. The greater specificity and higher quality the ingredients, the greater help they will be to plants.

Fractionation is not an esoteric concept without real world benefits. It is a difference maker for growers seeking the most effective, efficient ways to grow their crops. It is good to remember that how you nourish your crops is just as important as the seeds you plant.

As sustainability continues to have a greater role in the landscape of agriculture, a highly thoughtful approach to crop inputs is a good way to do more with less. Using Redox Bio-Nutrients products also makes sound economic and business sense because these carefully fractioned molecules allow reduced costs on other inputs while maintaining and increasing yields.

One trial during a heatwave in California’s Central Coast showed significant abiotic stress defense. Even though temperatures reached 108 degrees, the wine grape vineyard where Mainstay™ Si was applied recorded a 48 percent reduction in raisining compared to untreated vines.

Continuing with extreme results, we quantified exciting nitrogen efficiency and plant nutrition gains in five trials with our newest technology being readied for the market, RDX-N™. It’s a stable, botanical extract bio-stimulant combined with organic carbon compounds. RDX-N™ includes proprietary, patent-pending extraction of the highest quality ingredients that consistently deliver nitrogen use efficiency unattained in agriculture until now.

We are excited about the depth and breadth of trials already underway this year whether on our research farm in Burley, Idaho or through cooperators. We will continue to share results and continue to challenge ourselves to ensure our products remain a tremendous asset to growers, as they provide more nutritious food to consumers.