Petrik Biological Farming Overview

The objective of the Petrik biological farming system is to produce nutritionally complete food from strong healthy plants that require minimum chemical assistance to produce optimum yield and quality. Petrik are world leaders in soil microbiology. All of our products are certified organic by the Biological Farmers of Australia. Through understanding and working with nature the simplest description of our aim is, the creation of stable humus. Conventional growers lament the loss of productivity from previously virgin soils over time, increasing chemical inputs in an attempt to prop up falling yields. Stable humus is degraded by inappropriate fertiliser and chemical use.

As this happens the soil loses structure restricting the operation of the native biology. The Petrik biological farming system focuses on the plant microbe relationship. The objective is to provide the optimum physical and chemical environment to allow the plant to maximise the benefits from soil biology. Once the soil chemistry is corrected, application of field toughened biology starts the creation of stable humus paving the way for the soils indigenous microbes to again operate at full efficiency.

Plants exude between 10 and 25 % of the photosythates they produce into the rhizosphere to support beneficial microbes. Conventional modern agriculture ignores this resource.

You already have microbes in your soil. However, in many cases they are restricted from operating by chemistry, structure and organic matter limitations. If you are going to add microbes, you have to add microbes that can handle the conditions that are currently limiting your indigenous microbes. Petrik Digestor initiates the humus creation process. In soil which is chemically balanced, this humus glues the soil particles together giving permanent structure. This structure gives the soil porosity allowing air and water movement and the proliferation of indigenous microbes.

Petrik History

Vaclav Petrik, (senior) began producing commercial preparations of soil microbes 1947 in Czechoslovakia. Petrik developed their first stable products that could be bottled and stored in 1961. The comprehensive Petrik Soil Test was developed in order to ascertain amendments required to provide optimum soil chemical conditions for the performance of the biology. While developing the Soil Test Vaclav Petrik Senior corresponded with Dr William Albrecht and the principal of cation balance is integral to the system. The soil amendment system incorporates anion management and demonstrates the unique understanding of anions effect on cation availability.

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