I'm not the one to discuss this but I'll start a little dialogue. Remember we are doing food plots not working crop profit margins.
As everyone know, soil should be a world of various natural elements, micro and macro organisms, and stages of growth and decomposition . Thus the drive to produce more organic intense soil to promote those natural factors which in turn produce an environment conducive to plant growth by allowing naturally developing factors.
Improving organic matter improves soil structure, infiltration and water holding capacity, and improved cation exchange, and more efficient long term storage of nutrients. The active faction tends to harbor sugars and proteins. Micro organisms process the sugars quickly and to lesser degree the proteins. Byproduct of these actions, gives forth N, K, and P within the soil making it available for uptake by new growth/your plantings. Plant material that is succulent, such as clovers, give up their sugars and protein quickly and leaving behind little organic matter. Whereas fibrous or woody plants that the microorganism choose next, release nutrients much more slowly, even tying them up at times, thus promoting more humus in the organic layer. These latter produce a more stable organic matter, leading to better soil physical condition, nutrient holding capacity, and improved cation exchange. The microorganisms produce compounds that help glue the soils together yet allowing it to remain porous.
Organic matter improves slowly and can take a decade to improve 1%. N is most readily soluble hence easily leached out of the soil. Others, such as P and K can be at good levels yet bound . Now how are they released for use??
My fav guys the fungi, mycorrhizae , produce a water soluble protein. Most all plant roots develop a relationship with these guys using the hyphae to take in water and nutrients to help feed a plant, including elements such as phosphorus that seldom leaches from the soil but is often bound up. In return the fungus uptake sugars produced by the plant.
So as we improve soil tilth, water infiltration and moisture holding compacity is improved. The fungi also have the capacity to take up phosphorus for the plant. The mycorrhizae essentially increase the amount of surface area of the root for uptake.
So remember, as Crimson has so amazingly shown thru two forums over a number of years, crop rotation and choices, not only improves the soil, but its ability to improve uptake of naturally occurring elements by a complex pattern of events. Choose your rotations wisely, forget the monocultures, and save yourself some time and money in additives. Thanks Crimson and back to you.
