ASD announces joint venture

Destin, Fla. – Oxygen and microbes are essential inhabitants of a healthy root zone, and the two are now available in one package as a result of a joint venture between Agronomic Systems Design and Biologically Integrated Organics, Inc.

The newly formulated product will be marketed as bioPore , according to ASD president Larry Turley.

“It’s a merging of two proven technologies to create a unique synergism that will address a variety of turf and soil problems throughout the green industry,” he says.

“Oxygen is widely recognized as the No. 1 soil deficiency in turfgrass root zones,” says Lou Haines, ASD senior vice president. “Low oxygen translates to low microbial populations.  bioPore addresses both deficiencies.”

The product combines ASD’s PermO2Pore porous ceramics with bio’s proprietary blend of living microorganisms.

“We have inoculated the PermO2Pore granules with our microbes,” says bio chief executive officer Russell McNeill. “The PermO2Pore media contains 76 percent pore space making it an excellent habitat and carrier for a healthy, diversified microbial population. The combination gives superintendents a product with advanced technology that is not only easier to apply, but will provide long-term sustainable solutions for turf and soil systems.”

PermO2Pore has been used successfully in golf course applications for a number of years improving physical, chemical and biological balances in soil as well as sand-based root zones.  “Greens root zones amended with PermO2Pore combat the buildup of organic matter – an ongoing problem with sand-based root zones,” Haines says. “The PermO2Pore product ‘houses’ microbes and keeps them from leaching out of the root zone.”

Bio’s proprietary blend of beneficial soil microbes and metabolites is the result of intensified research to find the right combination of microbes and a way to keep them viable up to and after introduction into a new environment. A food source containing both long and short-chain complex carbon molecules ensures a healthy and diverse population will be introduced and will be able to form large, healthy colonies.

“All of this, tucked neatly inside the ‘microbe condos’ of PermO2Pore ensures end users a stable, viable product,” Haines says. “Incorporating bioPore into existing soil or sand-based root zones will provide the benefits that come with a healthy microbial population while simultaneously promoting permanent soil porosity and higher percolation rates.”