ChemicalThe fact that biological physiology can be influenced by chemicals was the start of the Green Revolution after World War II: fertilizers (mainly N/P/K chemicals) has made giant monoculture agriculture possible, with ditto effects on world production and thereby on world prices.
In recent years, the knowledge that flora needs more than N/P/K and water grows each year. Biological life is more complex than we thought it was. Flora ‘eats’ more than just N/P/K and the fertilizer industry tries to improve their products more and more.
Science has overgrown her arrogance: not the things that we know are leading, finding the things we don’t know become leading. A complete turn-around in scientifically behaviour/focus/attitude.
It’s clear that biological life needs more than just N/P/K, but we don’t know anything or at least far to little of the biological physiology. There are some beautiful examples: In parts of Australia commercial agriculture became possible after they concluded that the soil had a natural absence (low presence) of copper. After they added copper to the fertilizer, agriculture their became commercial possible.
It’s clear that each crop demands it own elements for maximal harvest performance beyond Nx, but we don’t know yet anything or at least very little about it.
There is a complete world to explore. With thanks to the ecological movement, who has pressed us to respect nature more than we did and make a emotional (not scientifically) appeal to the world for the complexity of biological physiology. These pressure has result in / opened a complete new field of research in emulation of natural processes in large commercial conditions. Biological based agriculture for the whole world is not a option yet, but getting as close as possible is certainly a commercial goal of any LFE (Large Farm Enterprise).
In closed greenhouse agriculture there are a lot more options for the chemical site of agriculture. Increasing CO2 levels during light exposure times, increasing O2 levels during dark (flora sleeping) hours, increasing continuous O2 levels by flora roots, adding specific crop related elements in the water supply, crop specific fertilizers, daytime dependent fertilizer adjustments, etc, etc, etc.
There is a complete new world to explore. The only thing we know is that these world exists. The rest we must find out from now on. Exploring these world was not commercial interesting because we could do very little in practising these knowledge, but with the Grow Indus OS and Crop Profiles, the world can implant each new knowledge very quick. Just because placement of a unit and addressing it from a Crop Profile by the Grow/OS make implementation very easily and quick possible. The only thing is proven or by an Institute certified measured effect of it.
That’s the good thing about an open source platform: development of any functional extension build on the platform will become very easily: making development of extensions on the platform attractive for a large number of companies, universities, institutes, hardware manufactures and of course crop specific knowledge driven farmers.
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