Humic substance helps retain water soluble inorganic fertilizers, releases them, as needed, to the growing plants, and helps prevent soil leaching. Humic acid stimulates seed germination and viability, and root respiration, formation and growth. Humic acid reduces other fertilizer requirements and increases yield in crops such as cotton, potatoes, wheat, rice, tomatoes, corn, beets, etc. Humic substance fosteres improved drainage. Humic substance increases aeration of the soil.
Humic acids increase the protein and mineral contents of most crops.
Humates establish a desirable environment for microorganism development. Humic substances produce thicker, greener, and healthier crops. Expensive book and may be requested from your local library or purchased from book sellers. These are two cabbage cultivars grown with N.M humates. Humus is the link between the mineral and the living cell and is the key to health.