Why ECO2MIX Started Tracking Soil Health — And What the Data Shows

When we start ECO2MIX, the main objective of the company was to replace the use of harsh and toxic Sulfuric Acid on water pH management for on site production of Carbonic Acid. And after a few months of using the Carbonic Acid treatment, some farmers and irrigators start telling us that they have seen more water infiltration, less water standing at the end of the irrigation cycle.

And that give us, like a curiosity to see what's going on here. We were only doing pH control. So, in 2021, we decided to start doing soil sampling, and running two different tests. One is the BeCrop for microbial changes, and the Haney test for nutrient availability. And those results have shown us a lot of changes, a lot of positive changes.

We had this last season, the opportunity to test side by side a Sulfuric Acid block, and the Carbonic Acid block. Same farmer, same farm. We saw a complete change on, for example, CO₂ respiration. On the Sulfuric Acid block, it went down, like, 16%. But in the Carbonic Acid side went up 64%. And that means there is more microbial activity in the soil on the Carbonic Acid treatment than the Sulfuric Acid treatment.

The same happened with the microbial diversity. That means how many different microbes are present in the soil. The Sulfuric Acid went down almost 13% and the Carbonic Acid went up 13%.

So, those results help us to try and kind of switch a little bit what we're doing with the farmers. We are here to support soil health. We want to support every farmer that is doing sustainable regenerative farming. And the ones that are not doing that, we encourage them to switch to a more sustainable water pH treatment.