Agriculture and SNS

Beyond the typical worries of farmers, there are now new questions that are becoming ever more pressing. Will you have enough water to grow a full crop (or too much,) what will the cost of fertilizer be this year and are there new environmental requirements that will affect the way you grow things?

SNS can't forcast or change the weather, but it can do a lot to make it easier to be a farmer. Yield is a key measure of the year's crop. One of the primary goals of agricultural SNS is to increase yields, with targets in the 20-40% range. It does this by making the soil healthier and providing an ideal fertilizer delivery rate.

Because the fertilizer is either in the carbon matrix or carried directly to the plants by microbes, fertilizer runoff and groundwater contamination is greatly reduced. This addresses two major concerns. First, with the higher fertilizer efficiency you are less affected by price increases for fertilizers. Second, you not only stop being seen as a pollution problem, in many cases you become part of the solution. You are saving energy, reducing greenhouse gases and improving the soil carbon stocks.

SNS manages the water in the soil. It retains water when it is dry, it helps water drain when it is saturated and it maintains air pockets to help the roots grow. It also creates an ideal environment in the soil for the microbes so critical to plant growth.

GreenPyro's goal is to bring agricultural SNS costs down to be competitive with traditional fertilizer methods. You get to put the increased crop sales and decreased secondary costs to work for your future.