2024 Advancements in Water and Agronomy
HCT, LLC
September, 2024
T Eden, Principal
Quite the year of progress in agronomy for growers by HCT and its partners. Thanks to our dealers, the road warriors and their clients. Game changing solutions, from our perspective, and from feedback of end users, dealers and the scientific community. Feel welcome to reach out to us if you would like to obtain details on any of the items listed.
1. Legacy Analytical Testing Methods and Results
Hundreds of tests, hundreds of varying waters and soils, hundreds of prescriptions and predicted outcomes realized. It's easy to see from the data, from behind a desk, what is going on with the plants nutrition availability, through the soil, from the water, what is needed and how to go about it. You may have heard the term, "water, the universal solvent", not usually the case due to water culprits; bicarbonate causing the formation of scale, chloride complexing with nutrients and harboring sodium, natural valence, the attractions of anions and cations making nutrients unavailable, ans the the amount of bateria waste products that form in the soils hindering infiltration, available nutrients and forming toxic wastes and gases. Lastly, the lack of soil pore space, soil oxygen and then the existence of confining layers holding toxins, roots want to avoid. Incredible economies of scale for the end users with trackable and accountable data going back three years thus far. We are able to grow more with less; water, fertilizer, disease, physical necessities and just as important, money.
2. Comprehensive Solution to Agronomy
The sciences of chemistry, biology, physical and chemical properties, water, soil, and available nutrition, combined into a custom comprehensive program. HCT is the first organization in the industry (agronomy), that has taken a comprehensive approach to the total aspect of agronomy, including bicarbonate, sodium, chloride, black layer, and continuous chemical aerification with every drop of water our vegetation is drinking and various water and soil properties and soil conditions, nationwide, from varying water sources, soils, blocks of agriculture and environmental conditions.
3. Chemigation Systems
Two new models of the FS-1 Series Chemigation systems are being released, with two of the new XL systems already installed at an NFL Training Facility in Los Angeles and in Texas. What’s new; the FS-1 XL is web/smart phone access, with remote access. It reports and alarms multiple parameters set by the end user, including actual chemical output, tank levels and water output. The purpose of the XL system is to aide those with water that is actually toxic, to assure the treatments are being injected into the water and to immediately notify the user if that is not occrring. The user can also monitor water output. Both the end user and HCT Product Engineers are able to access the system remotely to assist the client in every way.
The FS-1 X2 is designed for sites that have a pump station that has separate high and low pressure systems / one system, with two separate flow meters. One controller will be able to operate two flow for the output of chemistry into the separate distribution lines. The injection separating the WaterSOLV™ BC input into separate suction lines, is still in the works.
4. Injection Quill Extension
From what we can tell, HCT has engineered the first injection quill extension that contains the chemistry when pump stations are depressurized, that are non-mechanical for operational assurance, and if broken externally, it will contain 99.99% of water from spraying out of the piping.
5. Acid Fume Scrubber
WaterSOLV™ Curative fumes are not corrosion inhibited. The corrosion inhibition operates in the chemistry, not the vapors. It’s been an end user concern for quite some time, that whatever fumes escape the container will cause corrosion. The solution is a simple canister loaded with lime pellets that screws into the cap of the container and absorbs / neutralizes the fumes.
6. Legacy Analytical Ledger
Probably the second most valuable solution that HCT has developed, aside from the chemistry. We call it "managing the marbles" - each element of water, soil and available nutrition, identifiable, trackable and trendable. Do we add more fertilizer, or do we adjust our water treatment to assure we maintain a beneficial and rewarding drink for the plant, "while retaining soil operability, pore space and infiltration depth. Accumulated soil fertilizer "is" one of the most "significant" problems in agronomy, which the total soil digestion reveals, and which is a baseline to identify fertilizer replenishments needs, manage the water treatment to assure the plant is receiving all the nutrients it needs, detoxifications necessary, from the water, through the soil to available nutrients in the water, so that the plants receive the beneficial and healthy drink.
7. New Best Practices & New Knowledge Documents
b. pH versus Ionization and Oxidation Potentials – Effects & Sustainability
c. The Reactions of WaterSOLV™ Curative and WaterSOLV™ BC – Video
i. Corrosion & Scale Dissolution
ii. Scale Dissolution of Calcium in the presence of Iron
8. When is Fertilizer Considered Nutrition
The industry has relied on testing data that we've identified has caused growers significant challenges, but also cost the growers a lot of money. Fact 1: How can you be recommend sulfuric acid and gypsum from a water test alone, when your soil has more gypsum than your plant could utilize for 10 years, AND, pore space and infiltration depth is a problem, getting water down is a problem, and why has that happened? Answer: accumulated fertilizer, to start. Fact 2: How can you justify adding more fertilizer when your soils have so much of the fertilizer in it already, that it is hindering infiltration and you can't get water down, and yet these fertilizers are not transferring through the plant as evidenced by tissue analyses? Answer: It's not transferring from fertilizer to sustainable available nutrition, irrespective to pH.
The testing data showed the available was deficient, so you added more. The Exchangeables showed there is quite a bit there, "exchangeable", yet year over year, the amount of exchangeable never really change, it may have gone lower, but it never really went higher. IT CAN'T BECAUSE THE REAGENT USED IN THE TEST ISN'T STRONG ENOUGH. So what happened, is you added more fertilizer on top of more fertilizer, you never saw how much was actually in the soil. Solution: Make you water a better solvent, liberate the fertilizer from the soil into available nutrition - all the while regaining pore space and infiltration. Proof: Do a simple test - total soil digestion, the same test they use to quantify fertilizer and manure.
Fact is, soil must function as a host to hold water and available nutrition, and accumulated fertilizer will hinder plug up
HOW DID WE GET SO MUCH FERTILIZER BUILT UP IN THE SOIL, EVEN THOUGH YOU'VE BEEN CONTINUALLY ACIDIFYING AND MANAGING pH? HCT, LLC has the answers, the solutions, and it by your data, water, water bacteria, total soil properties, available plant nutrition from the treated water through the soil, and in the tissue data. More production, less money, less water.
HCT's purpose and privilege is providing sustainable and cost effective solutions to the chronic problems of water that plague wells, soil and vegetation. We consistently reduce water demand 15% and increase crop yields 18% and more. When you treat water ‘well’ with WaterSOLV™ you increase efficiency, decrease costs, increase yield, improve pore space and add oxygen chemically. We can show you how to restore soil infiltration and soil operability just by treating your water and for substantially less than you're spending now.
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