EMT’s primary goal is to identify biological, natural and organic materials and concepts, which can be economically included with existing large scale conventional and organic farming practices and result in economic benefit for producers, retailers and EMT.
Emphasis will always be placed on products safety for everyone from manufacturers thru to final consumers and improving the economics of production for the producers and consumers.
Preference will be given to use of ingredients and products which can meet OMRI and or NOFA certification. (OMRI approval coming)
For proof of performance EMT relies more heavily on measured benefits under commercial, production situations vs smaller university trials when possible.
HISTORY
Initial product development started in 2007 with requests from companies to have existing biological and natural soil amendments evaluated by an independent third party. As a result, there appeared to be potential to develop and market soil amendments and plant supplements based upon sound science and high quality ingredients utilizing new technologies.
The first product developed was NuCal NBw- a soil amendment to meet the needs of agronomists and farmers in the arid western United States and deal specifically with alkaline soils with high salt levels and water issues.
Based upon the success of NuCal NBW, a second soil amendment, NuCal NBE, utilizing similar technologies, concepts and ingredients designed to work in eastern U.S. conditions of low pH, cold, wet clay soil with high manure application was formulated.
One of the original issues that attracted attention for eastern farmers and dairymen especially was the frequent incidence of high levels of both Fusarium and Aspergillus field molds and the resulting toxins (DON, T2, zearalenone, and various aflatoxins). As a result, the NuCal product was modified with a focus on plant health in general and specifically reducing the incidence and extent of fungal plant disease and field molds and toxins. This gave rise to Scarecrow. Scarecrow has ingredients designed to provide benefits both directly to the plant nutrition and indirectly by improving the balance of soil microflora. As a result, Scarecrow has more potential benefit if applied to both the soil and growing plants.
As the need for biological foliar applied products became more evident so did the opportunity to utilize both bacteria and other biological to modify plant growth not only by improving plant health but thru biological which either produce or have immunomodulation benefits and plant growth regulatory compound type benefits. This lead to the development an additional product, Epic.
OUR PRODUCTS – PRIMARY INDICATIONS FOR USE AND APPLICATION
a. NuCal– improved nutrient availability and uptake, plant establishment
b. Scarecrow – field molds, mycotoxins and plant disease, nutrient balance
c. Epic – improve growth and health; nutrient availability