One of the biggest challenges in our modern agricultural system is the constant accumulation of toxic pesticides in the soil. These residues can be found for many years even after discontinuing their application. There have been many studies showing their presence, but very few solutions to the problem.
At Bio Minerals Technologies, we identify solutions, not problems.
Using Biology to Remove Glyphosate in the Soil
The chart below shows two fields (about 25 acres total). Both fields were farmed as one for many years with rotations of alfalfa and corn and regular applications of glyphosate for weed control (typically one-two applications per year). About seven years ago, we purchased the field on the right and began reconditioning it with rotating cover crops and trace mineral applications. Last year, we began applying our Microbial Mineral Tea to our field on the right with the intent to biologically clean up the field and remove the glyphosate and its degraded metabolite AMPA.
Both fields have very low levels of actual glyphosate. The big difference is in the AMPA levels. When glyphosate degrades in the soil, it becomes AMPA, which is actually 1.5 times more toxic than the original glyphosate. To show the total effective glyphosate in a soil, you add the glyphosate residue with 1.5 times the AMPA residue.
Our treated field has very little AMPA because the additional microbes from the tea have disassembled the AMPA and removed the toxicity. The only reason we still have any glyphosate in our field is because they put glyphosate into the irrigation water twice each year to kill off moss, algae, and grasses in the canals and ditches. Some of that carries through to the soil when we water.
Removing Glyphosate and other Toxins in the Forage
When forage is grown in fields contaminated with glyphosate or watered from irrigation systems that use it for weed control, the glyphosate is absorbed into the plants. This glyphosate is then fed to livestock, and its presence destroys the digestive biological integrity of the animals, making them less efficient and much less healthy.
At Bio Minerals Technologies, we use high-moisture fermentation with a proprietary microbial blend to break down glyphosate and other environmental toxins in the harvested forage such as Ergovaline toxins, Mycotoxins and Aflatoxins, greatly improving the health and well-being of the animals.
The charts below show the toxin reductions through fermentation.
After only eight weeks of fermentation, the Glyphosate levels had been reduced by more than half. As fermentation progresses, levels will continue to decline. What little residue is left can be easily dealt with in the animals’ gut due to the specific beneficial digestive biology applied for the fermentation process.
The Mycotoxin chart compares the toxin levels between a clean, dry bale and a fermented bale where the windrow was rained on three times before it was baled, with lots of mold on the forage. The fermentation microbes completely removed all toxins, with levels even better than the “clean” bale that wasn’t rained on.
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