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Bob, it sounds like a marketer's version of plain old inoculant. Most garden supply places sell inoculant for legumes. It makes beans, peas, etc. grow better with more drought resistance. I have never understood why everyone doesn't use it. There are slightly different varieties for garden crops, field crops (alfalfa, clover, vetch), and even for trees like locust. Look for mycorrhizal inoculant.
This is the reason many farmers rotate a legume every few years. As long as you keep a legume in the rotation, you can maintain higher levels of nitrogen naturally.
Of course, many fields have been fertilized for so long that the inoculating bacteria are drastically reduced. Best hopes for building biotic soil!
Hello TODers,
My thxs to all that responded, but I need to get some shuteye. I am hoping to wade through the long "Nuri: Fractional Banking/Thermo" text in the next week as time allows. Econ is extremely difficult for me.
Kjmclark: I am highly ignorant of soil/plant science too, but the links talk about Nitro-Fix being good for non-fixating non-legumes too. I have no idea if that is a agri-breakthrough or not, but to my feeble mind it intially seems highly significant. But I could be very mistaken: which is precisely why I solicited for expert opinion.
Please TODers, don't invest a nickel just because of my postings [my personal stock-picking record is truly lousy]. Do your own research.
Bob Shaw in Phx,Az Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?