A MASTER DISTRIBUTOR OF BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS
fertilizers • soil amendments and inoculants • adjuvants • crop protection
For 15 years, Andaman Ag Corporation has promoted farming practices that support the growth of healthy soils. Our purpose has been to complement nature through our recommended practices and product applications. As a master distributor of biological products — including fertilizers, soil amendments and inoculants, adjuvants, and crop protection — we can provide our clients with a comprehensive crop program based on their needs, issues, and objectives.
Our slogan, “From the Ground Up,” captures our commitment to achieving more robust crops, greater yields, and improved quality through improved soils. Fueled by new scientific discoveries coupled with old-fashion common sense, the new agriculture is focused on the soil.
The two key elements of our new understanding of the science of agriculture are:
- Soil is much more than just dirt
- Plants do much more than passively absorb whatever sunlight, water and minerals, nature and growers can give them
For the past decade, I have been writing about the news in agricultural science and ag product development in a newsletter distributed to growers and others in the industry. I recently wrote a book called “From the Ground Up,” that’s a collection of those newsletters. You can get it from Amazon or the Acres USA Bookstore.
Latest News
ROI and Biological Products
The agriculture market has always been challenging, and maybe particularly so now, with pressures from declining market prices, the availability and cost of labor, new regulations, water restrictions, etc. Crop input prices are on the rise and regulations are restricting what growers can do going forward. Bottom line: Growers must find new ways to be successful.
Technology in agriculture, like in most parts of our lives, has changed how we do things and, maybe more importantly, enabled us to measure what we had only presumed or speculated about in the past. Back in 2008, Andaman Ag began introducing biological products to the market. It wasn’t the most receptive audience at that time. But while working overseas, I witnessed the benefits of biological products firsthand. One of the key takeaways was their ability to improve growers’ Return on Investment, or ROI, over time.
Primary and Secondary Metabolites, Climate Change, and Yields
Plant metabolism basically can be divided into primary metabolism, which encompasses reactions and pathways vital for survival, and secondary metabolism, which fulfills a multitude of important functions for growth and development, including the interaction of the plant with environmental stresses.
Fungi to the Rescue
The more we learn about fungi, the more we understand what an important role they perform in our ag work and the potential they have to deliver more significant positive impacts to the planet, including the agricultural industry.