This assures the biological farmer a significant saving of water in the production of crops, an especially important consideration in arid zones and in dry seasons elsewhere. We cannot outwit Nature. Nature does not allow a wasting or loss of living matter in the restless process of mineralization the procedure for impregnating the soil solution with the mineral elements required for plant growth. In the final stage of decomposition the remmants of plasma still contain the essential elements of the life processes. These remnants are then transformed into soil plasma in the process of producing stable humus.
Stable humus is the crucial center, the focal point of the life cycle.
Adhering to farming practices that assure the production of stable humus thus becomes the farmer's main objective. Justus von Liebig's discovery that plants are fed by water soluble substances started a revolution in agriculture. However this revolution went in a different direction far from the original thinking of von Liebig. The single addition changed the truth of his discovery. First to recognize the important misunderstanding was von Liebig himself.