Frequently Asked Questions
Soil/Crops | Animals/Livestock
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Soils / Crops
- What research has been completed to show why I should purchase The Answer® products?
70% (93 of 135) replicated field tests have shown:
- Profitable yield responses.
- Soil Compaction (PSI) reduced by 20-25% 18 inches into the soil profile.
- Consistent increases in crop nutrient content.
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- Can I decrease my normal fertilizer inputs when using The Answer® products?
- It depends upon your goals. If you want to take yields another step higher than present you may choose to add The Answer® products to your existing fertilizer program. We may recommend a different (less toxic) source of nutrient inputs.
- If your growing season and annual rainfall is limited and you have average cation exchange capacity with medium nutrient ranges, you can likely decrease your fertilizer input costs. Stimulated microbial activity builds topsoil and improves soils nutrient availability. Any management and/or cultural practices that protect from carbon oxidation, accelerate healthy soil life and decrease compaction for air and water vertical movement, should improve efficient plant and crop production.
- If you wish to more toward organic production, then the sooner you eliminate normal fertilizer input the better. Since The Answer® products stimulate the production of topsoil and the remediation of toxicity, in most cases, production will not decrease during this transition.
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- Forage quality becomes more important for ruminants including equine. Can I depend on improved nutritional analysis from forage produced from the use of The Answer® products?
- A balanced soil (biologically and elementally) will grow all crops with improved nutrition levels. Animals will choose to graze from the area of a field where the grass or legume is more nutritious, higher brix (sugars, amino acids and minerals).
- The Answer® products will stimulate and feed the microbial life as well as improve most of the elemental nutrients availability for improved crop quality. The products will assist with balancing the soil biologically, but if elements are grossly out of balance or short, the soil needs to be analyzed and fertilizer added to bring balance to that field.
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- After a few years of stimulating microbial life with your products, will I need to continue their use?
- Dr. Jackson expects plants (crops) to improve performance for five years when using The Answer® product line. During the past 60 years soil organic matter levels have continued to decrease. To reverse that trend, continuous explosion of macro and micro organisms, and their remains, is the only method to rebuild and restore organic matter levels.
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- You think and talk differently than most fertilizer suppliers. How are you different?
- During the past 50 years, most of us have been trained to think and apply concepts relating to chemical inputs for farming. We still see increased yields in old fence lines or tilled feedlots where organic matter is higher, microorganism-life thrives and earthworms are plentiful. The Answer® customers expect the same on all cropland.
- Biological farming is being incorporated successfully back into conventional crop practices for profitable production. Stimulated microbial soil environments will create more healthy soils and crops, decrease soil compaction, thereby improving air and water vertical movement, results in improved yields and higher quality crops, as well as improved profitability.
- With the accelerated use of commercial farm chemicals, thought to be necessary to modern agriculture, the study and use of soil microbes becomes increasingly important in revitalizing the soil rapidly, safely and economically.
- If being "different" is stimulating and feeding dormant microbial life as an integral part of sustainable and/or conventional crop production, we feel proud to lead farmers in change. There are only two methods to build topsoil. These methods have been lost during the last few farming generations:
- Micro-organisms: Microbial soil life, stimulated and fed to reproduce geometrically when temperature and moisture is available.
- Macro-organisms: earthworms, ants, etc. digest fibrous material and produce castings (balanced plant food). Their dead bodies and castings could be classified as rich balanced topsoil.
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- Will The Answer® products mix with liquid fertilizer?
- Yes, the products are liquid and compatible with any liquid fertilizer with a pH range of 6.3 to 8. Carbon Frozen Flame®, which contains approximately 1,250,000 gram calories/pound, will increase the efficient use of water soluble liquid nitrogen, calcium and sulfur. Mineral Electrolyte Answer®, the water soluble low-molecular- weight, a component of humic acid, will improve leaf absorption when used with a fertilizer foliar feeding method or contact herbicide.
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- What is the average cost/acre for using The Answer® products?
- The cost per acre depends on the crop, degree of chemical toxicity present, degree of compaction, soil type, banded on or near the seed, broadcast pre or post planting, as a foliar or broadcast on crop residues. A price range would be $2.50 to $35.00 per acre. Consult your distributor for your specific farm application goal.
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- Does soil microbial life have an effect on soil pH?
- Microbial life's (micro and macro) castings and dead bodies are perfectly balanced plant food including pH. With time, the soil pH will move closer to 6.8 pH if biological activity has been stimulated and fed over a period of time. Stimulated soil microbes activate inorganic calcium to make calcium more available.
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- Which of the three crop products can be used with herbicides, fungicides or insecticides?
- The Mineral Electrolyte Answer®, being water soluble and a low-molecular-weight component of humic acid, will increase the absorption efficiency of contact chemical products.
- The Carbon Answer® (25% The Mineral Electrolyte Answer® + 75 % multiple glucoses or gelatinous polysaccharides [78,000 grams calories/oz]) is not as effective as Fulvic, but could be used to increase chemical efficiency.
- The Bio-N-Liven Answer® cannot be used with contact herbicides or insecticides. Chemicals will void the effectiveness of the Bio-N-Liven Answer®.
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Animals / Livestock
- Enzymes have been used for years in some livestock and bird operations, what is special about Livestock Answer®?
- There are 17 different enzyme catalysts in The Livestock Answer®, manufactured as a synergistic unit (team) to improve digestion of protein, fat, multiple starches and fibers.
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- Under what feeding situations is feeding Livestock Answer® most effective and profitable?
- When feeding few antibiotics in rations
- Adding to a meal ration
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- How can I be sure that Livestock Answer® is working or mixed well with the ration?
A simple test is to add water to the mixed feed ration, stir and if bubbles appear the ration has been mixed well and is working. The original laboratory tests for FDA measured:
- Starch or amylase from corn meal hydrolyzing or digesting 9.52 mg/liter/minute.
- Fat or lipase from corn oil liberating 40 mg/liter/minute.
- Protein or protease from soybean meal liberating 1,500 mg/liter/minute.
- Phosphorus or phytase from grain liberating 0.0123 FTU/ml/(A).
- Cellulose or cellulase liberating 17.82 cu/gm (B).
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- What effect does Livestock Answer® have on manure odors including ammonia?
- Enzymes, being catalysts, continue to work after leaving the digestive tract. The enzymes continue to stimulate aerobic and anaerobic microbes to transform inorganic salts into organic forms, less toxic and more available plant nutrients. Pasture manure piles digest rapidly and the lush grass growing near the piles is palatable and nutritious.
- In pits or lagoons, enzymes stimulate both anaerobic and aerobic single-cell, plant-side microbes. The aerobic microbes produce oxygen, that acts as a scrubber, attaching to the ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and methane gases that rise to the manure storage surface.
RESULTS: LESS MANURE ODOR AND INCREASE AVAILABLE ORGANIC PLANT NUTRIENTS
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- On the 25 lb bag, the recommendation is to feed 2.5 lb/ton of ration. Why are you recommending 1.25 lb/ton to 4 lb/ton?
- Conditions vary, so the recommendation is an average. More may work better for pelleted feeds, GMO feed, and other variables unique to your situation. For example; One cattleman reported that 5 lb/ton reduced the feed consuption by 50 percent. For small animals (dogs, cats, etc.) users suggest 1 - 1.5 ounces per 10 pounds of dry feed.
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- How can I prove to myself fast, that Livestock Answer® works on my animals?
- If you have a young or old animal (cat, dog, horse, cow etc.) add The Livestock Answer® to their daily ration for 2 weeks. Observe their alertness, improved activity, appetite and hair coat, etc.
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- What benefits do customers observe most easily?
- Reproduction: aggressive heats, improved libido in males and improved conception rates.
- Improved health, less sickness especially during stress periods.
- Alertness but calmness in handling.
- Improved hair coat.
- Less pungent manure and facility odor.
- Less external pests, i.e. flies, flees, ticks, etc.
- Reduced feed consumption.
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- Can 1.25 pounds/ton be thoroughly mixed in a farm mixer?
- We would recommend that The Livestock Answer® be added with a fine grind carrier and premix prior to adding to a farm mixer.
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- If I have a buildup of manure solids on the lagoon or pit floor, will the addition of Livestock Answer® to the feed ration digest those manure solids?
- The best chance would be if disinfectants and antibiotics were not used on the facility, in water or feed rations. Generally, we recommend adding The Bio-N-Liven Answer® with non-chlorinated water on the pit surface every two weeks to stimulate aerobic and anaerobic microbes to digest existing solids on the bottom of pits or lagoons. The Bio-N-Liven Answer® and The Livestock Answer® are compatible and can be used together.
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