Why Add Pelletized Gypsum
 Gypsum improves Soil Structure and hard clay soils.
Tight Clay Soils:
- Limit the amount of oxygen and water penetration
- Restrict plant root growth
- Reduces fertilizer effectiveness
- Encourages wind and water erosion of the soil
- Can reduce potassium up-take
- Sodium and magnesium (to a lesser extent) act the opposite as calcium in soils by destroying structure and reducing water, air movement and root growth. There should be sixteen times more calcium in the soil than sodium, and eight times more calcium than magnesium.
Gypsum helps improve plant nutrition.
Supplies essential plant nutrition plant available Calcium
- Calcium is vital to the resilience and strength of cell walls.
- Calcium is vital for root growth and function, and stress tolerance.
- Calcium is essential for regulating the availability of nutrients in the soil.
Supplies essential plant nutrition plant available Sulfur(in the plant available sulfate form)
- Sulfur is essential for maximum nitrogen and phosphate uptake and metabolism.
- Sulfur is essential for amino acid and protein formation.
- Sulfur is part of every living cell, helping develop enzymes and vitamins, promoting nodulation for N fixation by legumes.
- Sulfur aids in seed production.
Gypsum helps to counteract Sodium Alkali Soils
Concentration of Sodium in Soils:
- Interferes with the uptake of water by the plant.
- Decreases the stability of soil aggregates which break up and the soils become dispersed, resulting in reduced permeability to air and water.
- Ties up essential nutrients
- Reduces beneficial soil microbial activity and fertilizer effectiveness
From the standpoint of plant nutrition and as a soil conditioner or soil amendment, gypsum uniquely helps soils be more productive and more fruitful than any other single product on earth.
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