If you fertilize a plant, most of that fertilizer doesn’t make it into the cell — only about 30 to 40 percent makes it into the tissues of the plant. The rest goes in the soil and does damage in the soil. It goes wherever it goes and does damage wherever it goes.
With biology, the plant gets those nutrients directly from the microbes. These are fungi or bacteria, or even algae, that go inside a plant — inside the tissues of the plant, inside the cells of the plant — and can deliver nutrients directly to the plant inside its tissues. And this is an area that has been developing over many years now, but it’s not coming out of mainstream agronomy.
From James White’s presentation at the 2025 Acres U.S.A. Eco-Ag Conference. Full presentation available at eco-ag.com.
