With Soileos, the Answer is Yes.
Farmers know fertilizer’s job: feed the crop and fill the bin. But what if the right fertilizer could also make your soils stronger, more resilient, and even store more carbon?
That’s exactly what growers are seeing with Soileos. Backed by field trials, independent research, and now a peer-reviewed publication in the Open Journal of Soil Science, Soileos is proving it can deliver yield, protect your inputs, and improve soil resilience — all in the same season.
Fertilizer is expensive. Yields are under pressure. And soil health is becoming harder to maintain.
No one wants to throw money at nutrients that get tied up, leached, or washed away before the crop can use them.
Conventional fertilizers do exactly that – giving plants a quick hit of nutrients, but leaving soils weaker over time. That means wasted dollars and weaker crops.
Soileos was designed to address this problem.
Unlike traditional fertilizers, Soileos is biodegradable, and designed to enhance microbial activity and nurture nutrient cycling for slow release, bioactivated micronutrient delivery. With a focus on feeding the soil to feed the crop, we enrich upcycled crop hulls with nutrients like copper, zinc, and iron. This provides the soil with a cellulose rich feeding ground for the microbiome, ensuring nutrients stay bioavailable and are not lost to tie-up or leaching.
Here’s what that means for your acres:
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After receiving grants from Shell Nature Based Solutions and Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, we conducted an 18 month research project to test the carbon offset potential of wheat in greenhouse and field trials.
In greenhouse trials, the GHG emissions of spring wheat were evaluated, comparing Soileos applications against conventional sulfate based micronutrient fertilizers, and an untreated control, as grower standard practice. Soil respiration, crop yield, soil carbon levels, above-ground biomass, net greenhouse gas (CO2 and N2O) emissions, and the estimated post-harvest soil carbon balance were measured to understand how Soileos micronutrients, and traditional sulphate-based micronutrients, affected the GHG emission of spring wheat.
Results showed that Soileos treatments exhibited stronger soil health and resilience, shown by increased soil respiration rates and soil carbon content. Soileos treatments improved the relative carbon balance by 15-25% over the grower standard practice (untreated control), and out performed conventional sulfate based fertilizers by 13%. This is a testament to the unique Soileos mode of action and bioavailability.
Building on greenhouse results, large-scale field trials in Manitoba measured the effects of Soileos Zinc on wheat. Yields and soil organic carbon were tracked, comparing those with Soileos application, against grower standard practices where no Soileos Zinc was applied. The results were clear: fields treated with Soileos Zinc showed an 11% increase in soil organic carbon and delivered higher yields in three out of four trials — putting more wheat in the bin and proving Soileos is ahead of the game.
When results from both greenhouse and field trials are combined, the impact is significant. At a rate of just 10 lbs per acre, Soileos Zinc can sequester an average of 2.3 tonnes of carbon per acre — not only outperforming traditional sulphate-based fertilizers, but also laying the foundation for low-carbon, even climate-positive crops and a more resilient agri-food system.
Soileos is backed by science every step of the way — tested in the lab, proven in the greenhouse, and delivering results in the field.
Want to learn more? Check out the full article here: Evaluating Carbon Sequestration and Soil Organic Carbon Enhancement with Innovative Slow-Release Micronutrient Products