Spring 2016
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Spring 2016
MicroSoil® NEWSLETTER SPRING 2016 IN THIS ISSUE * Congratulations to Our First 20-Year Distributor in Mexico * New MicroSoil® Brochure in English & Spanish * Our Latest Affiliate Membership—IFOAM Organics International * * World of MicroSoil® Market Update * Request for New MicroSoil® Reports * Our New microsoil.com Website is Launched! CONGRATULATIONS! Our First 20-Year Distributor in Mexico Agricola Genética, S.A. de C.V. CLICK LINK: Interview with Sra. Irma, Director General of Agricola Genetica Haga clic en enlace: Entrevista con la Sra. Irma, Director General of Agricola Genetica Shortly after we founded our company in 1996, Pablo & Irma Martinez became our very first distributor in Mexico. Over the years they were confronted with numerous obstacles while building their business, including the loss of Pablo in 2001, however, Irma picked up the cause and committed to lead and build a successful agriculture business in Pablo’s honor, which she has now done as the General Director of Agricola Genética, S.A. de C.V. We thank Irma and her family for their commitment to marketing MicroSoil® over the years and look forward to helping her develop an even larger company in the future. Irma and her family plan to come to Las Vegas in May to establish a joint plan with us moving forward. New MicroSoil® Brochure in English and Spanish Our latest brochure is designed for Distributors to use for promotion and information. The 3-panel design has space for a Distributor logo on the middle back panel. The brochure shows our entire line of MicroSoil® Life Enriching Agriculture Products with new label designs. Results of crops Grown with MicroSoil® focus on Central America (Mexico, Costa Rica) commercial field crops and also commercial greenhouse & hydroponic facilities. Click below to view the brochure on our website in both English and Spanish versions: CLICK HERE: ?? ENGLISH CLICK HERE: ?? SPANISH Top Right: Brochure outside (English version) Bottom Right: Brochure inside (English version) Kym, we need to talk about his page. RE: requesting a pdf vs Click Here. 2 Our New Organic Affiliate: IFOAM-Organics International Biomassters Global, Inc. is proud to be a new Affiliate Member of IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements). The IFOAM-Organics International mission statement: “We work to lead, unite and assist stakeholders from every facet of the organic movement. With offices and networks across the globe, IFOAM-Organics International ensures that the organic voice is heard on both a regional and global level. Our vision is the worldwide adoption of ecologically, socially and economically sound systems that are based on the principles of Organic Agriculture.” An up and coming synergistic industry Another unique MicroSoil® product designed to fulfil a need, as requested from large algae suppliers desiring to accelerate the growth of their algae operations, which is used for increasing carbon in arid soils for commercial growers. lgae Farm (Photo Right): At the request of commercial algae growers, we’ve developed a new product, MacroBlooms™ Algae Super Food, designed to enhance and supercharge the growth of Algae with a unique and exclusive, highly concentrated blend of broad based natural occurring ingredients. 3 World of MicroSoil® Market Update USA In order to help our new international markets develop, we are now providing informational materials translated into Spanish, Portuguese and French to be used for new business development in Central America, South America, Europe and the Caribbean. Our website also features instant page translation into multiple languages. Our move into the California market is gathering momentum with established commercial farmers/growers of Avocado, Nuts, Citrus, and Grape Vineyards (Wine Industry). Two of our products, MicroSoil® and Pristine™ Soil Supplement Concentrate are registered as Organic Input Materials (OIM) with the California Department of Food & Agriculture (CDFA) and carry the CDFA OIM seal on their labels. Growing Global Interest in MicroSoil® We are currently working with potential new interest groups from government, university, and private commercial sectors in several new international market areas including India, Africa (seven countries including Zimbabwe), Central America (Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua), South America (Brazil, Uruguay) and Jamaica. In India, government sponsored testing of 10 different crops Grown with MicroSoil® is currently underway. Cucumber Watermelon Bitter gourd Tomato Ridge gourd Pumpkin Bottle gourd Whichever bean you indicate for 2 week result Wet rice (as discussed) Examples of our CDFA approved product labels can be found on our website: More info: CLICK HERE 4 REQUEST FOR NEW MicroSoil® RESULTS Every year numerous new crops are grown using our MicroSoil® Life Enriching Agriculture Products and we need all the help we can get from you to pass on these results for our website, archives and newsletters, in order to share them with all those affiliated with our company. We greatly appreciate MicroSoil® crop result write-ups with photos, or simple comparison pictures, such as "Before & After", "Grown with MicroSoil® & Grown without MicroSoil®", or just “MicroSoil® and Control”. Even a single picture of a plant grown with MicroSoil®, with some pertinent information or caption, tells a story. Our New Website is Launched! Microsoil.com Please visit our new website! It’s designed to better communicate information about our MicroSoil® Life Enriching Products and TailorMade™ Fertilization Protocols, and information about our activities around the world. For the convenience of our distributors and growers worldwide, key website pages are available in multiple languages. Our most exciting new online feature is our extensive catalogue of MicroSoil® results available for anyone to peruse. We currently have catalogued over 160 different MicroSoil® studies covering more than 105 different crop varieties in 16 different countries, from 1996 to the present day. The archives are growing every day as our distributors, growers and interested research entities continually conduct use our MicroSoil® Life Enriching Agriculture Products on crops and plants in controlled environment greenhouses and open fields around the world. Take the “Green Hand Pledge”© and “Swear to Go Green”© with MicroSoil® Greenhouse & Hydroponic Food Crops Grown with MicroSoil® Around the World As always, we appreciate any and all information and photos you have regarding your experience with MicroSoil®! 5 Agriculture News from Around the World Las Vegas Valley Woman’s Hummingbird Rescue Takes Flight Again Las Vegas Review Journal, March 12, 2016 http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/valley-woman-shummingbird-rescue-takes-flight-again CLICK to play video The now-retired North Las Vegas crime scene investigator, Marion BradleyHamilton, rescued her first hummingbird in 2008, while working as a volunteer at Gilcrease Nature Sanctuary. She named the baby bird Squeak and took him with her to the office and to crime scenes because he needed to be fed so often. He would perch on the cubicle wall by her desk and chirp for food. She had been rehabbing hummingbirds for almost five years by the time she was featured in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on July 7, 2012. Two days later, a state game warden informed her that she did not have a valid permit. She immediately applied for wildlife rehabilitation permits from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the Nevada Department of Wildlife, and was finally issued a federal fish and wildlife permit in January 2014 and got her state rehabilitation permit in late March 2015. To prepare the birds for their eventual return to the wild, Brady-Hamilton and her husband built a 6-foot-tall flight cage in the backyard and stocked it with flowering honeysuckle, a feeder and a birdbath. She doesn’t advertise her services or charge for them. She said most of the calls she gets are referred to her by Gilcrease Nature Sanctuary. She can also be reached through her Hamilton Hummingbird Rescue page on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/hamiltonhumminbirdrescue/ According to state records, Brady-Hamilton is one of only two licensed wildlife rehabilitators in the valley and one of only five anywhere in Nevada. She is the only one specifically licensed to handle hummingbirds. She has returned about 75 hummingbirds to the wild, including the ones she cared for before she was licensed. Besides poisoning children in Michigan with lead, the EPA also conspired with Monsanto to poison the entire food supply with toxic doses of glyphosate herbicide Natural News – March 4, 2016 http://www.naturalnews.com/053192_EPA_Monsanto_glyphosate_herbicide.html# The EPA has come under fire for the revelation that months before the massive lead poisoning of Flint, Michigan’s water supply became public, an EPA employee had notified his superiors of the problem. Instead of warning the people of Flint, however, the EPA privately communicated with Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality to get them to solve the problem. Documents received via a Freedom of Information Act request, reveal that the EPA also assisted Monsanto in attempting to paint flagship herbicide Roundup (glyphosate) as safe, after the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) declared glyphosate a "probable carcinogen." 6 Reminder – FREE Soil Testing Offer We would like to remind all distributors about our FREE SOIL TESTING OFFER for new customers. We will supply the grower with one (1) liter of MicroSoil® product, FREE of charge, provided the grower will: 1) Supply us with a completed copy of our Fertilizer Questionnaire, and 2) Send a soil sample to Waypoint Analytical, Inc. for testing along with our written Authorization Form (which indicates that Biomassters Global will pay for the Waypoint Analytical test). In addition, we will analyze the information (Fertilizer Questionnaire + Waypoint Analytical soil analysis) and provide the grower with our TailorMade™ Fertilization Program & Protocol for his inputs. When the grower is ready to test, and agrees to comply with the above, we will send him our FREE Soil Testing instructions along with an Authorization Form for a FREE Waypoint Analytical soil test. Anyone who wishes to do testing outside of these parameters must do so at their own expense. BIOMASSTERS GLOBAL ORGANIC AFFILIATES All of Biomassters Global Agriculture Products are certified as Organic Input Materials, meaning that growers can use the MicroSoil® product line as input materials for growing their produce labeled "Certified Organic". All of our major Organic Certification Agencies – Oregon Tilth & CCOF (USA, Canada, Mexico, European Union), CDFA & OC (California), and OKOP (European Union) prohibit the intentional use of GMOs. CCOF and CDFA are governed by the Authority of the USDA National Organic Program (NOP) standards. REMINDER WE NOW ACCEPT CREDIT CARDS Agriculture Website: http://www.microsoil.com/ Ethanol Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~test-results2/ Swear To Go Green Blog: http://www.microsoil.com/blog 7