Articles, News and Testimonials

Dr. Mike,
I planted Crawford Shallots in a side by side growth trial with MycoApply® endo granular side dressed at a rate of 2 pounds per acre at sowing The average size in the MycoApply® inoculated treated area was 4 ounces compared to an average size of 2 ounces without the treatment.  The color was better for the trial on the treated shallots.  I also notice I used less water to irrigate all the produce in the field.  The area was a very low input soil so we were very surprised at the size of the shallots and the treated yields!

Loretta Sandoval- Farm Advisor
Dixon, New Mexico

Looks like the top field on the Stotz Dairy here in Arizona inoculated with MycoApply yielded an additional 300lbs of lint compared to the lower field. I also did not rood the upper field and had one rood module on the lower field. They were not the same varieties, but the lower field dp 1032 has been considered a better variety by our monsanto rep….Good results. We should try some more of the fungi this year.

Zach Gingg
General Agriculture
Crop Consultant

Hi Jeff,
My marketing teams in Vietnam are visiting sites that are using our product.  From their feedback, black pepper harvests have shown better yield, heavier contents, more uniformly.

Presently, most of the black pepper growers are having problems with rotten roots after years of overly fertilized and ready to be cut down but with mycorrhizal fungi we could revive the soil and roots.  Hopefully we will save the growers money and increase their profits and livelihood in the long term with our products.

Thanks Jeff,
Keith

Hi Dr. Mike, As you know I am an organic wheat farmer here in Wyoming and we had one of driest and coldest winters on record. I used your MycoApply® granular on my winter wheat and I am very pleased at what I am seeing. The root systems are noticeably stronger and deeper. The crop definitely established better than my neighbors wheat. We have the best looking wheat in ten miles. The mycorrhizae are making a noticeable difference in the health and vigor of my crop. I’m sold on your MycoApply® product and will be needing 5,000 pounds for my next planting.

Sincerely, Stan Mosher
Cheyenne, Wyoming

Dr. Mike, I have finished collecting seeds from my Petalostemum foliosa plots. From the MycoApply® mycorrhizae-treated plots 136 g of the seed was collected. From the control plots 15 g of seed was collected. Overall, the yield was 3.4 g seed per square foot in the myco-treated plot while the control yielded only 0.6 g seed per square foot. I plan now to treat the control plots with mycorrhizae to see if next year will be different.Very significant results.

Hal Gardner

Leafy Prairie Clover MycoApply® treated	Leafy Prairie Clover untreated

Dear Dr. Mike,
Here are the results of the corn trial. There were 6 replications of each treatment (rows systematically planted with MycoApply® treatment and controls with buffer rows on the edges)

The results (quantity of corn harvested) are measured in gallons of shucked and cleaned but not shelled corn at harvest time as measured in level 4 gallon buckets.
The control corn seed was not coated with MycoApply® product: Average yield: 68 gallons.
The treated corn seed with MycoApply® Micronized Endo from Mycorrhizal Applications (lab results indicated 56% root mycorrhizal colonization)
Average yield: 78 gallons

The results indicate a 15% increase in yield on the MycoApply® treated plots. I appreciate your products and your work and hope we can work together again.

Sincerely,
Jonathan Spero
Lupine Knoll Farm

Dear Dr. Mike,
I used your granular MycoApply® Endo when planting my Buckskin Organic hard red winter wheat on my 6,000 acre farm here in Nebraska. Dr. Mike this stuff really works. Compared to my control area my test weights went to 64.4 compared to 59.0. My average yields are up 10% and my protein content is up. The bushel price of organic wheat is $20 and using the MycoApply® is a no brainer. My profit return on my investment for the MycoApply® is running 5 to 7 times. I’m treating everything I grow here at Mosher Land and Cattle Company. Have guys call me if they want to know how the MycoApply® works on the farm.

Sincerely,
Stan Mosher
Mosher Land and Cattle Company

Dear Dr Mike, I’m a long time citrus grower in the central valley of California. I used your MycoApply® Ultrafine mycorrhizal inoculum through my irrigation system on 120 acres of citrus that is in organic production. Lab reports indicate percent mycorrhizal colonization of my citrus roots exceeds 60%. I’ve cut back on my watering 25% in the MycoApply® and organically treated area and have not seen any moisture stress on my citrus trees. The water savings alone equates to $100/acre. I am very happy with your MycoApply® mycorrhizal product.

Sincerely,
Hutch Yatsuzuka
Old Turtle Mountain Ranch

see how the soil structure now has aggregates thus allowing for better water and air movement

Hi Dr Mike,Our soil type is a Ritaville Sandy Loam. The soil is considered to be very desirable. It has been conventionally farmed under irrigation for 50 years. During that time the soil had lost its ability to move water laterally. This restricts root development and thus the feeding zone for the plant.

Three years ago I started making and applying Compost Tea to the ground. We saw immediate improvement on the feeder roots. In our Pinto Bean crops we were able to move our yields from 20-25 cwt per acre to 30-35 cwt per acre. In the 2nd year we saw much better water movement plus good nodulation on the roots.

In the fall of the 2nd year we started using your MycoApply and putting on Lime for a Calcium source and Rock Phosphate. This was our only source of fertilizer. I added MycoApply Mycorrhizae to the bean seed at planting. In the picture, you can see how the soil structure now has aggregates thus allowing for better water and air movement. There is good nodulation giving the plant adequate Nitrogen.I believe the Calcium aided the stem structure in keeping the leaves upright out of the water. We didn’t have a White Mold problem. The mycorrhizal fungi was a great advantage to the roots in the uptake of nutrients, especially Ca and P.

Yield on this field was 43 cwt. per acre! Our best yield in decades of farming. I now have been able to put my soil probe down 3 feet without a problem. I find onion roots down 24 inches. This year we didn’t rip anything. A very welcome fuel savings!

Ken Toevs
T &T Farms
Quincy Washington

To whom it may concern,
Last year, during the 2004 growing season, I planted corn using a starter fertilizer that contained a blend of 17-6-1-18 plus trace minerals, Humaphos (which is a soft rock phosphate and humates) and MycoApply mycorrhizal inoculum.My corn had a noticeable difference between it and the other cornfields in the area. Early crop development was outstanding when compared to other cornfields. We had excellent root development and the corn continued to stay advanced when compared to the other cornfields. The average yield was over 100 bushels to the acre. This compares to 60-70 bushels/acre in areas not treated with MycoApply mycorrhizal inoculum.We are located in North Central North Dakota. Corn is not a dominant crop in our area because of the climate. Last years growing season was one of the coolest in recorded history. We had an early frost in August and then another in September. Most of the corn in our area suffered extreme damage before maturity.I believe my corn survived the early frosts directly as a result of the starter fertilizer blend and the MycoApply mycorrhizal inoculum. Most of the corn not treated with MycoApply was sold for silage.

Jerry Miller
President – Agritec, Inc. (Deering, ND)

Dear Dr. Mike, Wanted to keep you updated on my inoculation of my strawberries with your MycoApply® Endo Plus product. I treated 80 acres by applying the MycoApply® at the time of transplanting the strawberry plants following fumigation of my field.The results have been superb. I have never seen this field look so healthy and vigorous. The plants established very quickly and are healthier and growing better than any other of my fields. I’ve been showing the field to workers, associates and crop specialists in amazement. It is without question the best looking strawberry field in the area. I grow strawberries on over 500 acres and am incorporating mycorrhizal inoculation into my program.

Vince Terada (Oxnard, CA)

Hi Dr. Mike, Thanks for the article! I was going to ask if you had a pdf you could send as I want to mail to the Board of Directors of the Maui County Farm Bureau (I’m on the Board). With the exception of 3 organic guys they are all conventional and need to understand the real cost of doing business their way. I thought your article was excellent!We have been using your myco powder for all our transplants (potatoes,coffee, tomatoes etc.) with excellent results so far.  We also have been using it on banana transplants.Thanks for all your careful work…it is the kind of work that really helps the organic cause and moves it from crystals and pyramid power and into the realm of real science!!

Aloha,
Gerry Ross – Lavaboy

I first started using mycorrhizae in 1980. Our family owned Glass Mountain Forest Tree Nursery in the Napa Valley. What we were looking for was a larger healthier plant that would out perform the seedlings we had been growing since 1965. Once I inoculated the nursery seed beds, immediately I noticed larger healthier faster growing root systems and top growth. For us this was important because we seeded the nursery in April or May and harvested the bare root seedlings in the winter, January through March. We only had a short period in which to get the seedlings up to the specified sizes under contract to the lumber companies in California and Oregon. We noticed our cull rate went from 30% down to 10%, and the caliper of the seedlings all exceeded the minimum required 5-mm caliper and a 5 inch top. We immediately noticed greater financial returns on our net profits. We also found the fertilizers were working much better and were able to reduce the purchases by 35%. Our fungicide costs reduced significantly. From a nurseryman’s perspective and with a Scottish banker for a Father –things were looking up. But what we found in later years when the trees were out planted in the forests of the Pacific Northwest was really where the benefits showed their prowess.Recently, I performed a trial in a grape vine nursery in our area with VA mycorrhizae. I inoculated 2000 plants in paper pots known as Zip Sets. Also I left 2000 as control plants for the trial. The plants were growing in a greenhouse environment typical to the industry at the time. I received a call from the nursery owner with what appeared to be terrible news. The greenhouse had a power failure during an extended holiday, the greenhouse reached temperatures too high for any life to live for several days, no cooling and no water. I went into the greenhouse to view the plants and they all looked as though a blow torch had hit them, all dead, or so it appeared. I instructed the nurseryman to continue with watering the plants as though nothing had happened. After several weeks the inoculated plants were all green again pushing new shoots and visually recovering, however, the non mycorrhizal plants were brown and as it turned out through time was a complete loss. Now, we know about the benefits of mycorrhizae from a drought tolerance and resistance standpoint, but this result was so compelling that again, I was a believer even more so as to the benefits of mycorrhizal plants.Here at Genesis we not only have the knowledge, but have found a source of the world’s best inoculum in our association with Dr. Mike Amaranthus. For all the reasons that I have experienced in my 28 years of application of this magnificent gift, I have seen so much that is positive and not one single negative.Today after three years of trials and tribulations we are seeing the ultimate in our results, as evidenced by the photographs and field data that we have accumulated.I must stress, (just kidding), we have gone beyond my wildest expectations of what this process is capable of doing for the long term health and viability of my very favorite industry, the wine industry.”Drink up, enjoy”!

Bruce Coulthard
Genesis Soils

Grape cutting untreated	Grape cutting MycoApply® treated