Soilsmart specialises in the management and rehabilitation of soil and plant health, and as a company we are focused on helping our customers to improve productivity, sustainability and to reduce the impact and severity of pest and disease events. Soilsmart has a unique range of products and services, and offers management advice and solutions to a wide range of soil based industries.

In any soil based production system the need to ensure that you are taking steps to either maintain a healthy soil balance or to rehabilitate the soil back into balance should be a priority. Of course when we talk about soil balance we are referring to the need to address three key factors taking into account - Nutritional, Structural and Biological aspects of the soil, because we seem to have largely overlooked the importance of soil biology in modern soil management. 

One of the many benefits of a balanced and healthy soil is the reduction in the need for chemical inputs, whilst improving productivity, sustainability and building a natural defensive network against pests and disease.

And whilst sustainability, or rather the lack of it, has become a buzz word and whilst science is searching for patentable remedies, it has become increasingly obvious that one of the main contributors to soil decline is the many of the soil management practices which are now considered 'normal'.

This might sound like an overstatement, but it's the damage being caused to soil biology which is having the most significant impact on the very structure of the soil, its ability to recieve and store water, to break down and stabilise organic carbon, to cycle and retain nutrients and to provide some level of competition against soil borne diseases.

Have you ever considered that the number and volume of chemicals that are applied to plants has actually increased each and every year since we started using them seriously over the past 60 years or so - so much for chemicals being the saviour of modern crop management. Ironically as these chemicals poison the soil, and as the health of the soil declines, pest and disease pressure has increased, and this has also happened each and every year since we began using chemicals and chemical fertilizers.

The real slap in the face however, is that not a single pest or disease has ever been eliminated or defeated as a result of all these billions of litres of chemicals which are reducing the soils’ productive capacity.

Soilsmart products and services are designed to not only help reduce soil degradation and reduce the need for chemical intervention, but also to help repair and rehabilitate soils that have been damaged or are in decline and improve productivity, plant health and the sustainability of our most valuable and threatened resource - the soil.