Neal Kinsey owns and operates Kinsey Agricultural Services, Inc., a company which specializes in soil fertility management. Detailed soil audits determine specific fertilization programs based on each individual soil and its fertility requirements.
He is a Recipient of the 2003 ACRES USA ECO-AGRICULTURE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD and a member of Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels.
Neal Kinsey is a Soil Fertility Specialist and been consulting since 1973 after completing a program of study developed and taught by Dr. William A. Albrecht.
Healthy Soil for Healthy Foods
The Health Benefits of Organic Growing on the Most Fertile Soils
Neal Kinsey
Points to keep in mind
when the work may seem too hard
and the rewards provided
may seem too small!
#1 - The soil is the plants’ stomach. If we expect the plants we consume to supply our nutrient needs, we must apply the materials that aids its digestive system. Too many nutrients are considered only for their short-term effects and do not take into consideration the full long-term benefits to the life of the soil and the nutrient requirements of the plants being grown there.
#2 - You can't manage what you can't measure. Test and feed the soil properly so plants are not forced to take up elements they do not need in the place of those they do, and thus the starting point for solving the problems caused by either excesses or deficiencies.
#3 - Balanced soil fertility is a major key to successful food production. Remember and understand that when you add a nutrient to the soil something else will be lost. Thus adding too much of anything or having any natural excess of some nutrient in the soil will assure there is not enough of something else.
#4 - Many growers, even large producers, fail to seriously study, learn and strive to apply what the real laws of soil fertility require if the job of soil fertilization is to be done right, both in terms of productivity and nutrition.