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    Vital Earth Resources, Inc.
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    "Vital Earth Resources, Inc. was founded in 1983 by the Hammer family. Vital Earth pioneered In-Vessel Composting and introduced the commercial use of compost in horticultural and landscape soils. Our goals were to produce the highest quality, most consistent, nutrient rich compost in the market. Today, we continue to achieve these high quality results and promote valued relationships with our partners in horticulture and agriculture. Our compost-based soil products include a variety of grower and professional landscape blends for all soil environments and every growing condition. Soils are crafted for container growers, landscape contractors, bedding plant producers, tree growers, gardeners, horticulturalists and a variety of other growing applications. Vital Earth also markets a full line of consumer bagged soils and mulch products, which are made to the same exacting standards as our professional brands. In 1993, Vital Earth acquired the renowned Texas fertilizer manufacturer, Carl Pool Products, now a division of Vital Earth Resources. Since Carl Pool was founded in 1945, the brand has developed a reputation for superior quality fertilizers for both growers and home-owners. Carl Pool produces a complete line of water soluble, granular blends, and Earth Safe Organics fertilizers for retail distribution and grower use. The Vital Earth VITAZYME division is extensively involved in the creation and marketing of agricultural biostimulants worldwide. Vitazyme reduces the need for application of nitrogen, a costly constituent of agricultural applications, and is now used worldwide in more than twenty-five countries. Customers and scientific studies throughout the world attest to the effectiveness of Vitazyme to enhance crop yields and improve food quality."
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    Natural Resources Group
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    Economically sound countries have always had agriculture as the basis of their financial success. In order to ensure that our soil continues to provide a healthy productive crop venue for generations to come, we must begin farming in a way that builds vitality and wholesomeness for the far, community and the world. As Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, "The nation that destroys its soil, destroys itself." We must learn to act in Harmony with nature.Founded in 1980, our company has striven to introduce highly efficient organic based products that preserve nutrient availability, reduce leaching, build soil vitality and increase bloom and fruiting. NRG has economically transitioned hundreds of growers into proven alternative fertility methods while protecting the environment into proven alternative fertility methods while protecting the environment into the 21st century.We believe our name says a lot. We are a group of like-minded companies and individuals using advanced agronomy to understand the benefit of the SOIL - our natural resource. Natural resource is defined as a "material source of wealth such as economic value. Wise utilization of these resources will assure long term success. Because the soil is our greatest asset, we begin from the ground up. Initially, we ANALYZE the total soil system. We then INTEGRATE Plant Physiology, Soil Science, Micro Biology and Agronomic technologies to begin the process of bringing the SOIL to an optimum natural state.With an understanding and appreciation for the delicate life systems found in productive virgin soil, together with the grower, we begin the task of returning to the to the soil what intense production may have depleted. Utilizing resources from ocean, seas and earth deposits, we provide natural systems designed to REPLENISH the limiting factors found in the soil and plant.When nutrients are added to soils or sprayed directly onto plants, our unique formulas begin to BALANCE soil life and boost plant health in order to raise the production capacity of your farm.
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    New Era Farm Service Inc.
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    "New Era Farm Service, Inc. is an agronomic service corporation specializing in organic matter management for agricultural soils and crop nutritional support systems. This is accomplished by improving soil organic matter quality and by balancing soil and plany mineral content. Our recommendations are uniquely balanced between traditional N-P-K inputs and more advanced methods of fertilization, including sustainable farming practices. In today's marketplace, there is increasing emphasis on pesticide-safe, nutritionally sound food products. Mainstream agriculture is in transition to meet this emphasis, and NEFS has been instrumental in furthering these ideas and techniques for over 35 years. Sophisticated analysis of soil, water, and tissue are the basis of both short and long-term programs. Our goal is to educate and equip the grower with a cost-effective fertility program which meets the needs of the current crop and contrinually improves the quality and productive capacity of that great farming asset, the soil. Doug Graham grew up in Mendota, CA, attended Tranquility High School, Orange Coast College and Fresno State College. In 1995 he started as a consultant with New Era Farm Service which has been a manufacturer of organic compost and fertilizers since 1974. Doug also studied under Dr. Elaine Ingham and became a Soil Foodweb Advisor for her lab in Corvallis, OR. He is one of the owners of New Era Farm Service, as well as a Certified Crop Advisor, Chairman of the Organic Fertilizer Association of California, member of the State of California Subcommittee for the implementation of AB856 and also the State of California’s Fertilizer Inspections Advisory Board."