WARNING! Communist Country Selling Toxic COAL as Potassium Humate! See results of tests on plants. This really tells the true story "COAL is not Bio-Active, It's POISON" See The pictures here and BEWARE! Buy N. American humate only!
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picture of what Humisolve-TM7 (7 trace elements) 70% humic on
garden beans when watered in once and foliar once.control on left
humisove on right.
Humic acids are crucial to life on earth and when they become depleted via oxidation or deactivated by sodium or aluminum, soil problems develop and then all the way up the food chain there are problems. Soil depletion has always spelled doom for most civilization of the past. Once humus is depleted trace element availability, along with phosphorus and calcium availability starts to decline. The end phases of many ancient civilizations can be seen in the burials, the skeletons showing the effects of the deficiencies with dental problems bad enough to cause death and osteoporosis or bone degeneration. When zinc is depleted learning ability is lost in the population along with fertility, and that is the end of that civilization. This has been proven by analyzing the bone of the "mound builder" civilization of the U.S. Midwest. The bones found at the bottom of the mounds were in good shape with sound teeth and bones, whereas towards the top of the burials (or the end of the mound builders civilization) teeth problems were rampant and analysis showed low zinc, calcium and phosphorus. So we have ample warning of what is to come but we are doing little about it. The older countries of the world are becoming more and more interested in humates and have done large scale research projects in many areas of humic use.
Not all humates are created equal. The best humate is one that is high in humic acids and are also high in oxygen in the phenolic and quinoid groups. Molecular weight is important and the high oxygen types are usually low molecular weight and more biologically active, because only the low weight molecules can enter the cell membrane and make it more permeable for the flow of nutrition to the cell. Humic acids work in the low weight fraction on the cellular level. Stimulation of each cell produces more energy from the plant and higher yield. The process starts with soil microbes, then plant root cells and eventually the entire plant. We can also do this by foliar spraying soluble fulvic acids and adding a humic solution to the soil at planting. Cellular stimulation at all levels is how it works.
What then is the best humate?
This is an economic issue, boiled down to: how much humic acid
am I getting per dollar and what is the cellular stimulation level?
The more concentrated a humate product the cheaper it is to transport
and apply, therefore most of the time the most concentrated source
is the best buy due to transportation costs. A high grade humate
might be very effective at raising the yield by 20% or more with
just 50# per acre of a 70-80% humic acid material. A humate of
34% humic requires 250-300# per acre to do the same job. What
is the price, what is a pound of humic acid delivered going to
be? Get your calculator out.
A company in Dallas, Texas claims to have the highest guaranteed humic acid available at 35% humic acids, 35% carbon and 35% organic matter. Is this the highest guaranteed humic material when another company in Houston, Texas, Humus Products of America, has a product guaranteed at 80% humic acid and one in Washington state, Horizon Ag., has one guaranteed at 70%? So here we go again with humate misinformation. The standard for humic acid is leonardite which contains over 80% humic acids. This would seem to be the highest, but not the most effective unless it is made into a soluble form where it becomes effective at low rate and the humic acids of the soluble powder can be over 80%. Claiming that 35% is the highest guaranteed analysis is misleading at best and just plan wrong. Humates are valuable products and we need to leave the days of humate misinformation behind and deal with the companies with a track record and a proven high grade product. Shipping sand doesn't make sense and no matter how you cut it the other 65% is good old silica sand.
Over the last 30 years interest in humate comes and goes, honest , sellers of good effective high fulvic humate prove by trials and farm use the amazing benefits of a few dollars of "Real" humate. The next phase is the "me too's" with there coal dust and brown coal sold as humates with a lower price tag but a much higher recommendation per acre. Pretty soon people who got took by the coal peddlers start saying that "humate doesn't work , it's a scam" no humates not a scam but selling coal as humate is. Some time the difference never comes out. The state of Iowa banned the sales of humate mainly to stop a company selling coal as humate to farmers.
They are doing it again and now even Australia is in the act,everybody with something black in the ground thinks they have "Humate" . The original tests done with humate by Dr. Senn at Clemson in the 70"s that got everyone excited were done with New Mexico high grade , high fulvic humate. The fact that later tests weren't so sucessful and humates were discredited was due to the fact that oxidised coal or leonadite was used which has a very low fulvic content. It seems ever decade or so people looking for "discount " humate find out the hard way. Some pay a bigger price, the soil binds up and gets hard ,and other problems develop, remember coal can contain high levels of toxins including mercury,arsnic,lead, and hydrocarbons.
A good humate stimulates cell division and is effective at soil activation and microbial stimulation at rates as low as 40# per acre (40 K/ha.). Soluble products made from it , like Humisolve-USA™ are effective at less than 1/4 the amount per acre of raw humate.
If it burns it's coal ( try a torch on it) If it stimulates seedling or algal growth it's a humate.
If you want the best at the best price contact me ,we have identified the best product/price in the world of humates and WE DON"T SELL COAL.
Robert H. Faust Ph.D. agroecologist/agronomist
Here we go again! coal companies using the good research of my friend and associates Dr. T.L. Senn to justify selling pure coal to farmers. At least two COAL companies in Victoria State Australia are trying the scam which hurt the name Humate in the U.S. , what caught my eye was literature I received from a large coal company in Victoria, when they recommend 10 MT. per Ha.
clearly they do not have what we call "humate" in America they have coal plain and simple and of course they use the old claim that this rate increases the the C.E.C. of the soil, right!! Of course they never present any data to prove this claim. Then they try to discredit what we have learned all over the world for the last 30 years by saying
"For Organic Humate, the benefit comes from increased cation exchange capacity and water holding capacity. To apply at a rate less than 1 t/ha is relatively ineffective as this equates to only a 0.1mm layer of humate over the hectare."
This is totally untrue for humate and might be true for coal, many ,many research studies in the U.S. including the work of T.L. Senn and others including years of work by many people world wide refute this statement. 50-100 kg. per Ha. of 35-45% humic acid containing "humate" from the Menefee or fruitland formation in New Mexico have been proven time and time again to increase many types of crop yield by up to 100 % in the case of high value crops like carrots.
Clearly the world scientific literature shows that humic substances are effective at as low as 100 Part per million and that crops benefit from as low as 5 ppm humic acids. Fulvic acids contained in real humate is effective in solution as low as 10 ppm. and real humate is effective in solution as low as .02%. Where do they get the 10 M.T. per Ha. as necessary, come on!!
Humates have a real benefit to mankind and are the only way to increase crop yield an average of 20% without clearing more forest and are widely studies in large agricultural countries like The P.R. of China, studies in China on farm crops using New Mexico humates made soluble by the bio-energenic process were effective when applied with the seed and were responsible for increasing millet yield of over 60%,wheat yield by 37% ,maize yields by 15% by using only 4 oz. per acre with the seed .this is about 200 gm/Ha. ,the fulvic component is the key here and fulvic does not come in Saltwater coal. Fulvic bio-active humates are found in freshwater deposits only.
The problem come when companies that have coal want to make a killing and then promote it as a miracle product and of course it does not stand up to scrutiny and the farmers soon find out that it does not perform as humates are claimed to in the literature ,then the lie remains and humates once more are all lumped together as "snake oil products" this is a major disservice to the world and keeps setting the humate business back. Lets try to set the record straight with some published papers from the U.S and New Mexico government sources that discuss THE REAL HUMATE and how much is an effective amount to use.
(Excerpt from article by)
"G.A, Abbott - Leonardite - A
Material of Industrial Promise"
Bureau of Mines Circular #8164
(published in 1963)
Agricultural materials and Humates
in New Mexico by the N.M Bureau of mine and mineral resources
