The market is flooded with low-quality Calcium Sulfate Anhydrite and synthetic materials not suited for agriculture use. While these other companies may be trying to make a quick sale of low-quality materials, EcoGEM®’s contrasting mission is to return global arable land back to production—soil remediation. That mission makes us your...
Soil Remediation: The Role of Gypsum
The Problem: Our growing world population and the reduction in agricultural land/quality farmable soil are not a sustainable combination. Our food producer--the farmer—daily faces increasingly high costs for water, fertilizer, and implements to grow crops while simultaneously facing declining yields and damaged soil. Soil remediation has become an urgent issue....
Gypsum (calcium sulfate): how it can make degraded soils productive again
Soils in the world degrade generally from human induced activity like logging, mining, drilling (for oil or natural gas), accidental spills or farming. However, nature can also degrade soils with changes in landscape and water levels. Once soils are degraded, they are no longer productive. They cannot support natural vegetation...