Product Benefits

Primary Agricultural Industry concerns:

• Continual rise in input costs – particularly fertilizers, fuel, chemical pesticides, herbicides and seed.
• Environmental Concerns – sustainability, water quality, runoff issues and chemical residue in soil.
• Rapidly shifting consumer food perceptions and preferences
  • Consumer wants foods that are safe, healthy, and environmentally friendly
  • Consumer wants to know more about how their foods are produced.  They want the “story” surrounding their food products.
  • Consumer wants greater nutrient density, better taste and texture, and truth in labeling.

Natural and Organic foods:

• A $31 billion market in 2010.
• Growth in the natural and organic food sector is triple that of growth in the commodity foods sector – 10% vs 3.2%.
• Over 83% of households purchase natural foods and over 61% purchase organic foods.

What do Farmers and Ranchers need?

• Reasonable solutions to difficult problems.
  • Must be feasible and able to implement
  • Must be sustainable and profitable
  • Must have production systems and strategies that address issues.
  • Must have dependable products that address issues.

Farmers and Ranchers need products that:

• Increase plant growth & yield while decreasing input costs.
• Reduce or eliminate the need for fossil-fuel based and chemical fertilizers.
• Reduce or eliminate the need for chemical pesticides, fungicides, etc.
• Improve soil health & build soil organic matter.
• Increase water & nutrient uptake by plants.
• Increase macro & micro nutrient availability.
• Are environmentally friendly.

A healthy acre of soil should have:

• 2600 lbs of soil bacteria
• 2600 lbs of soil fungi
• 830 lbs of favorable insects and arthropods
• 445 lbs of earthworms
• 90 lbs of algae, 90 lbs of protozoa and 45 lbs of nematodes

Importance of soil microbes:

• Profound importance in every chemical transformation in soil.
• Play key role in soil fertility and crop yield.
• Increase nitrogen and phosphorus availability to plants, as well as micro-mineral availability.

SumaGroulx is NOT:

• A fertilizer.
• A synthetic growth hormone.
• A compost tea.
• A Genetically Modified Organism (GMO).

What is SumaGroulx:

• Patent pending array of over 30 strains of naturally occurring soil microbes.
• Unique and unprecedented combination and concentration of soil microbes.
• Key microbes include multiple friendly strains of Bacillus, Enterobacter, Pseudomonas, Stenotrophomonas, Rhizobium, Azorhizobium and Trichoderma.
  • Past products have typically had only a small number of microbes in a much weaker concentration.
  • SumaGroulx has over 30 strains of soil bacteria and fungi.
    • Unique concentration of over 10¹² . This means there are over One Trillion soil microbes in every milliliter of SumaGroulx.
    • SumaGroulx Organic is OMRI Listed with no restrictions.  It can be applied to any organic operation without restriction.

Key microbe actions:

• SumaGroulx formula contains microbes that perform the following functions:
  • Nitrogen Fixing Microbes – SumaGroulx contains literally trillions of nitrogen fixing microbes that are a unique combination of symbiotic, non-symbiotic, free living, nodulating and non-nodulating microbes.
  • Microbes that function as phosphate solubilizers.
  • Microbes that act as nutrient cyclers, making soil nutrients more bio-available to the plants.

Advantages and benefits of SumaGroulx:

• Yield increase in tested crops.
  • Includes vegetable crops, row crops (corn, soybeans, rice, cotton, etc), forages, hay crops, and bio-fuel crops (Switchgrass and Cane).
  • Fertilizer reduction or elimination.
  • Chemical pesticide and fungicide reduction or elimination
  • Better stress tolerance – drought, transplant and wind.
  • Better water holding capacity.
  • Prevents fertilizer runoff and reduces soil erosion.
  • Builds soil organic matter.
  • Increases carbon sequestration.
  • Converts bound soil phosphorus into available phosphorus
  • Increased plant nutrient levels – brix, chlorophyll, plant proteins and minerals.

Advantages of high brix content in plants:

• Significant increase in plant sugars, proteins, amino acids, minerals and vitamins.
• Higher dry matter content which increases plant, vegetable and fruit nutrient density.
• More pleasing aroma, taste and texture in high brix fruits, vegetables and forages.
• Healthier plants

Ease of Use:

• Stores at Room Temperature.
• One formula has a broad range of applications.
• Cannot harm the environment.
• Ability to co-apply with other products – fertilizers, herbicides and irrigation water.
• Inexpensive to transport.