Herb Young completed BeCrop® Tests to analyze the soil in his replicated trial of 135 trees. The test was split into three treatments: conventional, transition, and regenerative. He collected two sets of samples to understand how his cover cropping strategies were beneficial to his microbe nutrition. The first samples were collected before transplanting in March 2021. The second samples were collected 7 months after the transplanting in October 2021. BeCrop® provided a soil microbiome analysis based on DNA information indicating biodiversity and functionality were higher in the areas with regenerative treatment. There was a high level of Auxin production, Cytokinin production, and Gibberellin production. Also, there was a high level of stress adaption with high Salt tolerance, Abscisic acid, and Heavy metal solubilization.

BeCrop® Test Reports showed that Herb's regenerative treatments doubled the microbial species and increased the total quantity of fungal soil biology 6x more than the conventional treatment. BeCrop® enabled Herb Young to measure the effectiveness of the regenerative practices in his orchard operations at Squeeze Citrus.

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