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WHY USE GYPSUM
Gypsum is one of those rare materials that performs in all categories of soil treatment: an amendment, conditioner and
fertilizer.
Amendment
- Corrects soil alkalinity, lowers high pH conditions
- Counteracts acid soils, raises low pH conditions
- Leaches out harmful sodium through ionic exchange
- Restores a balanced soil condition following prolonged use of acid fertilizers.
Conditioner
- Generally improves soil structure and tilth. Creates friable soil and builds deeper top-soil
- Breaks up soils compacted by its two worst enemies - sodium and clay, compounded by farm animals and machinery
- Reduces cracking and compaction following irrigation and retards soil crusting
- Allows soil to dry more quickly after rain or irrigation so that it may be worked sooner
- Decreases energy requirements for tillage
- Binds organic matter to soil and checks soil erosion
- Enhances friendly bacterial action and discourages plant diseases related to poor soil aeration
- Orchardists and farmers in New Zealand apply gypsum on their orchards and farms each autumn so that through
the wet winter, gypsum’s conditioning benefits work into the soil
- Conditioned soil allows for deeper, healthier root development and water penetration.
Fertilizer
- Supplies needed calcium nutrient and strengthens cell walls, making plants and trees more resistant to insects and disease
- Provides necessary sulfur nutrient
- Amends nutritional tie-up and makes essential nutrients more available, such as nitrogen, phosphate, potash, iron and zinc.
Water Savings
- Gypsum promotes water infiltration, retention and conservation
- By allowing water to penetrate the soil without forming puddles or water logging, gypsum conserves water by stretching intervals between irrigations
- Tests show that farmland treated with gypsum requires up to 33% less water than soils without recent gypsum application.
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