MinRock programs stimulate an amazing natural process which harvests
energy from the sun 24 hours a day and makes its own water.
Implementing Breakthrough Technologies in Soil Repair
SOIL RESTORATION TECHNOLOGY ENVIROPROTECT TECHNOLOGY ANIMAL FARM MAXIMUM YIELD TECHNOLOGYCHEMFREE BIOCLEAN TECHNOLOGY
This low cost, scalable regenerative agriculture method reverses topsoil damage, significantly increases yields, profitability and the quality of farmer’s lives.
A truly game changing breakthrough in land management, revegetation and agricultural sustainability.
OUR VISION
Restore microbial density to the soil so as to provide the world’s most nutrient dense food and at the same time remove chemicals from the soil.
OUR PURPOSE
To transform global agriculture through our proven, patented, non-chemical, non-toxic restoration methods.
ABOUT
HumiRock
BREAK THROUGH TECHNOLOGIES BREAK THROUGH TECHNOLOGIES
The 7 Big Problems We Solve
SOIL RESTORATION TECHNOLOGY
Regenerative sustainable farming technology that:
1. Restores degraded and suboptimal topsoil.
2. Naturally boosts soil moisture as a buffer for drought affected farms.
3. Naturally increases nutrient availability and creates soil moisture –without rainfall.
ENVIROPROTECT TECHNOLOGY
Natural biotechnology that cleans, restores and neutralizes damaging environmental pollutants, accidental spills, polluted wastewater outflows, and controls organic odour-without the use of harmful dispersion chemicals or superficial fragrances.
ANIMAL FARM MAXIMUM YIELD TECHNOLOGY
Biotechnology that is guaranteed to
1. Reduce animal and bird stress
2. Improve feed conversion ratios
3. Maximise overall animal farming outputs
4. Significantly reduce overall inputs costs.
CHEMFREE BIOCLEAN TECHNOLOGY
Biotechnology that naturally removes common domestic and industrial residues from surfaces that harbor viruses and pathogens. Containing no toxic chemicals. Bioclean is guaranteed 100% safe to use around household and industrial food, children and pets.
CARBON CAPTURE TECHNOLOGY (CO2)
Globally scalable technology that sequesters billions of tons of carbon emissions at an accelerated pace, with our unique bacterial photosynthetic process.
DROUGHT BUFFERING TECHNOLOGY
Drought buffering technology that is guaranteed to help protect soils against drought events, using a proven patented water production process (hydrosynthesis), that creates and holds soil water (even in times of zero rainfall).
FOOD SECURITY TECHNOLOGY
Food security technology program that offers sovereign nations the ability to guarantee improved farm food production using locally source farm inputs, even in times of harsh and ever changing climates and the trending mass erosion of topsoil.
The new paradigm
GROW YOUR OWN WATER
The untapped power of bacterial photosynthesis
THE BREAKTHROUGH:
THE DISCOVERY OF THE POWER OF BACTERIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS
MinRock has developed ways to stimulate and energise Bacterial Photosynthesis at industrial scale. Water producing bacteria use non visible light including Infrared and other radiation as an energy source. This part of sunlight is present day and night which enables production of carbohydrates 24 hours a day. This unique process of stimulated bacterial photosynthesis is the basis for topsoil formation and has a unique ability to manufacture water in dry soil, without the need for rain or irrigation
MinRock befriends a natural community which; captures nutrients and makes water in soil without rain
(1) MinRock catalysts are added to any accumulated organic wastes on a farm or in a community.
(2) This organic waste undergoes a patented continuous fermentation process using IR and other radiation. The process stimulates bacterial photosynthesis which sequesters carbons from the air and uses its own captured energy to convert the organic matter into natural soil amendments and bio-fertilisers called HumiSoil® and XLR8 Bio®.
(3) When spread like a fertiliser over degraded topsoil, these bio-fertilisers reinvigorate the soil, and bacterial photosynthesis continues by stimulating a living community called archaea in the soil. This process continuously produces water and accumulates nutrients, completely independent of rain or irrigation.
The natural process which makes additional water in the soil, also unlocks ‘trapped’ Phosphorus – the primary nutrient needed for photosynthesis, thereby restoring soil health and supplying nutrients for plants.
TA natural boost of important nutrients is unlocked by soil microbes using the additional moisture, to make it soluble and therefore bioavailable to plants.
Result
Our 'Living Phosphorus’–increases phosphorus availability in the soil by 100%
MinRock patented process results in much richer soil
and therefore increases crop yields
The old paradigm
Everything Depends
on Green Plant Photosynthesis
lmost all growing systems depend on Green Plant Photosynthesis and chemical fertilisers
IT CREATES TOPSOIL EROSION
Through constant land use over time, chemical based farming practices deplete the soil of water and nutrients, requiring the use of ever more chemical fertilisers and pesticides. This promotes the long term erosion and degradation of topsoil which has now become a critical global issue.
BOTTOM LINE
Reliance on Green Plant Photosynthesis alone ultimately draws down on the soil itself. Eventually the soil reserve is depleted, dries out and blows away or is washed off with floods.
IT ONLY WORKS HALF THE TIME
Green Plant Photosynthesis does not work at night.So the entire production system is working only half the time. In fact at night CO2 and water actually leave the system
Proof
that Growing Your Own Water transforms farm yields
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CASE STUDIES
CROP TYPE
LOCATION
SOURCE
OUTCOME
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Wine Grapes (Shiraz, Tempranillo, Chardonnay)
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Temora, NSW Austrailia
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Houlaghans Valley Wines
Vines grown using MinRock products generated the following yield increases when compared to untreated vines over a 3 year period.
• Shiraz: increase 222%
• Tempranillo: increase 272% • Chardonnay: increase 103% Total organic carbon levels in treated soils increased from 0.55% (prior to commencement of pilot) to 2.42% (at end of pilot).
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Vegetables and Soil Carbon
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Clare, Queensland Australia
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Independent agronomist
Vegetable crop yield for crops grown using MinRock products resulted in increased yields between 7.41% and 37.95% when compared to control crops. Total organic carbon in MinRock treated soil increased by 0.78% across 3 years. This represents an increase in total soil carbon of 3.9 tonnes per hectare per year.
Soil water holding capacity increased by 143% where soil was treated using MinRock products.
CROP TYPE
LOCATION
SOURCE
OUTCOME
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Tomatoes)
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Shandong,China
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Shandong Shungeng Shengtai Environmental Technology Co., Ltd.
Tomatoes grown using MinRock products showed a 7.1% increase in yield when compared to the control group. Alternative organic fertilisers were found to have a 1.2% increase in sweetness (brix) compared to control fruit.
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Rice
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Heilongjiang , China
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Beidahuang Black Soil Rice Co.Ltd
Soil treated using MinRock products prior to planting showed a 66.5% increase in plant available phosphorus and 17.5% increase in total phosphorus when compared to a control plot (chemical fertiliser use) at the 5-month sampling period. Rice yield/quality (measured as g/1000g) of crop grown using MinRock products increased by 5.2% when compared to the control group.
CROP TYPE
LOCATION
SOURCE
OUTCOME
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Remediation of Cadmium contaminated soil using HumiSoil®
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Jinan , China
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Houlaghans Valley Wines
The addition of 10% HumiSoil® to soil contaminated
with cadmium resulted in a significant reduction in
cadmium levels, indicating a statistically significant
level of soil remediation.
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Potato
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Heilongjiang, China
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Beidahuang Black Soil Rice Co. Ltd
Soil treated using MinRock products showed an
increase in soil phosphorus levels (both plant available
and total) when compared to results in soil treated
with chemical fertilisers.
The total yield of potatoes in MinRock treated
growing areas exceeded the yield of crops grown using
chemical fertilisers by 46%.
The total yield of potatoes grown using a combination
of MinRock products and chemical fertilisers
exceeded the yield of crops grown using chemical
fertilisers only by 77%.
CROP TYPE
LOCATION
SOURCE
OUTCOME
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Peony Seed
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Changsi , China
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Shanxi Lu’an Zhihua Agriculture & Forestry Technology Co Ltd
Soils treated with MinRock products showed up to an
84.9% increase in plant available phosphorus.
Peony seed grown using MinRock products showed a 17%
increase in seed yield when compared to the control group
(chemical fertilisers).
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Cucumber and Tomato
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Shanxi , China
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Shanxi Benyuan Ecological Agriculture Development Co Ltd
The yield of cucumbers grown using MinRock products
increased by 27.9% when compared to the control group
(grown using chemical fertilisers).
A nutrient analysis of cucumbers grown using MinRock
products showed an increase of Vitamin C content in fruit by
over 3,400% when compared to fruit in the control group.
The yield of tomatoes grown using MinRock products
increased by 8% when compared to the control group (grown
using chemical fertilisers).
Tomatoes grown using MinRock products reportedly had
a higher sugar content (sweeter taste) than those in the
control group.
CROP TYPE
LOCATION
SOURCE
OUTCOME
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Chili
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Shandong , China
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School of Agriculture , Linyi University
Vines grown using MinRock products generated the following yield increases when compared to untreated vines over a 3 year period.
• Shiraz: increase 222%
• Tempranillo: increase 272% • Chardonnay: increase 103% Total organic carbon levels in treated soils increased from 0.55% (prior to commencement of pilot) to 2.42% (at end of pilot).
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Cattle
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Drillham South, Queensland Australia
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Sturrock’s Grazing
Carrying capacity of property increased by over 200%
through the application of HumiSoil® to pasture.
Significant reduction in occurrence of bovine footrot in
feedlot through utilisation of MinRock products to
manage odour and balance ecosystem health.
Conversion of manure from waste to resource.
Re-emergence of native grasses after decades
of absence.
Reduction in heat stress in animals.
CROP TYPE
LOCATION
SOURCE
OUTCOME
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Barley and silage
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Wagga Wagga , NSW Australia
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Charles Sturt University, Bathurst.
Across 4 years of analysis, barley yield from crops
grown using MinRock products increased
between 35 to 168% when compared to yield from
control/ untreated areas.
Silage yield from hay treated using MinRock
products increased by 49% when compared to yield
from a control process.
The brix reading (indicator of sugar content/ nutrient
density) doubled (from 5.8% to 11.8%) in barley grown
using MinRock products.
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Available and Total Phosphorus
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Shanxi, China
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Peking University, Beijing
Over the trial period, application of MinRock
products to samples of depleted soil from Shanxi,
China resulted in a sustained and significant increase
of available and total phosphorus. This increase
occurred without the addition of phosphorus sources,
indicating the stimulation or catalysis of reactions in
soil that sequester phosphorus.
Separately, combining MinRock products with
50% standard fertiliser doses increased the efficiency
of the fertiliser blend by 100%.
SIDE BY SIDE CASE
STUDIES-Singapore
- Bountiful harvest from our side by side in identical growing systems
- Left hand side fertiliser and standard commercial growth media.
- Right hand side is sand and humisoil –using MinRock’s standard 90% sand 10% humisoil mix
- RHumisoil made to MinRock specification completely remotely by license
NSW Environmental Trust
The Urban Sustainability Program
The Groundswell® project attained $2 million in grant funding from the NSW Environmental Trust to find sustainable solutions to pollution problems faced by NSW local authorities
THE OUTCOME
Groundswell® was featured as a method of choice for managing organic materials at scale in the Australian Commonwealth Government Report –Food and Garden Organics: Best Practice Collection Manual (HyderConsulting).
