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'TerraPro fixes Soil Compaction and Improves Pistachio Nut Crop

Here's a followup to a story we posted a year ago, where Soil Secrets proves its Bio-Identical Humic Acid product TerraPro  can fix a major problem of agriculture. Compacted Soil. However the Mechanism of Action that caused this change to the soils structure can only happen if the Humic Acid characteristics are Supramolecular. Soil Secrets owns the molecular description of those carbon rich molecules that provide this benefit. 

 Our Distributor John Miller just sent this letter to me today, concerning the Pistachio orchard in California that tested our TerraPro product.  They measured for changes in soil compaction using a penetrometer where huge changes took place in a short period of time.  See our http://www.soilsecretsblog.com/2015/09/good-news-on-another-success-story-that.html  blog story from January 2015 where images of Don and the owner of the orchard are testing the compaction of the soil.








Photos from January 2015




Michael Martin Meléndrez
Managing Member of Soil Secrets LLC 
www.soilsecrets.com

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