Florian Strobel

How Constructive Microbes and SKUAST-Jammu are bringing the soil microbiome into focus Healthy soils are the invisible infrastructure of every farming system. When soil structure, the soil microbiome and the water balance fall out of equilibrium, exactly the problems appear that farmers around the world experience: yield declines, waterlogging and erosion after heavy rainfall, crops drying out during droughts. According to FAO estimates, around one third of the world’s soils are already...

How Microbes Stop Surface Sealing, Build Humus, and Keep Water in the System Water is rarely the problem. Soil function is. Agriculture is experiencing two extremes at the same time: long dry periods, and then rain that arrives too fast. That sounds like weather, but it is often  infrastructure . A soil that functions can absorb water, distribute it, store it, and release it again. A soil that does not function responds with crusting, runoff, erosion, patches of waterlogging, or dry spots....

Imagine your irrigation tank as a quiet partner. While the pump rests, the system keeps working. In the cistern, pipes, and emitters, beneficial microbes settle, form biofilms, detach again, and continuously re-seed the circulating water. The tank becomes a  living water reservoir . This very effect allows you, after a targeted  start dose , to lower the  maintenance dose  of our microbes in a  recirculating drip system  to  1:10,000 . Not because less efficacy is needed, but because the...