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Chiapeta's Farm

microBIOMETER® helping increase soil health in Brazil.

Marcelo Chiappetta of Chiapeta's Farm in Brazil shared with us how microBIOMETER® is assisting them with their soil management efforts. Their main agricultural crops are soybeans and corn. Between those crops, as they have a temperate climate during the winter months in southern Brazil, is the possibility of growing a cover crop mixture of radish, vetch, rye, and oats and feeding the soil with different roots.

Their microBIOMETER® results pictured here from top to bottom are:

▪ Degraded Soil
▪ Native Forest 1
▪ Native Forest 2
▪ Cover Crop Mixture
▪ Alfafa
▪ Degraded Soil
▪ Native Forest 1
▪ Native Forest 2
▪ Cover Crop Mixture
▪ Alfafa

Analyzing your fungal to bacterial ratio data.

“microBIOMETER® is a great tool for us to manage our soil health. As parameters to compare and create our own soil measurements and to increase our soil quality, we use degraded soils to get the lowest readings and forest soil analysis for the highest. Farming is more fun with microBIOMETER®”, said Marcelo.
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microBIOMETER® version 3.2 available now!

See what's new in our soil test kit!

We recently updated our testing platform from cardboard to the coaster style pictured here. This new platform features microBIOMETER® details on one side and a dedicated space for the test card on the other. This coaster is now included in all new orders, so keep your eye out for it!
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Quotes, facts and research.

Soil Carbon Restoration

▪ Through photosynthesis plants can draw carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, out of the atmosphere and put it into living matter, constantly renewing the supply in soil.
▪ Soil scientists are learning that plants and soil organisms seem to have co-evolved in a mutually beneficial relationship.
▪ Research on the capacity of agricultural lands to hold increased amounts of carbon is incomplete.
▪ If we are to restore a large amount of carbon to the soil it must be in a form that microbes can use to grow. Otherwise, they will eventually just burn it up and give it off as carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
▪ One form of carbon that seems to remain stable for years, even centuries, is humus. It is composed of complex molecules containing carbon but is not easily broken down by organisms in the soil.
▪ Through photosynthesis plants can draw carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, out of the atmosphere and put it into living matter, constantly renewing the supply in soil.
▪ Soil scientists are learning that plants and soil organisms seem to have co-evolved in a mutually beneficial relationship.
▪ Research on the capacity of agricultural lands to hold increased amounts of carbon is incomplete.
▪ If we are to restore a large amount of carbon to the soil it must be in a form that microbes can use to grow. Otherwise, they will eventually just burn it up and give it off as carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
▪ One form of carbon that seems to remain stable for years, even centuries, is humus. It is composed of complex molecules containing carbon but is not easily broken down by organisms in the soil.

Soil Carbon Restoration: Can Biology do the Job?
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