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SeaAgri Research

SeaAgri, inc. is committed to implementing global research trials utilizing SEA-90 on a continual basis. Our current application rates are based on the extensive agricultural research conducted over a 30-year period by Dr. Maynard Murray, a scientist and medical doctor. This amazing technology evolved from Dr. Murray’s question, “Why does man, God’s most perfect creation, fall prey to degenerative disease?” Dr. Murray searched for answers by studying various centurion groups throughout the world (humans who regularly live beyond 100 years of age) to determine how they are superior or physiologically different. By examining their environment, he found these cultures living in virtually isolated ecosystems. Their soil is preserved from erosion, and in many cases, fed by mineral rich glacial streams. Therefore, he concluded that the answers must be in the soil.

Since the sea once covered practically all land masses, he began to study sea life. Dr. Murray personally dissected thousands of species from the seas and did not find any traces of cancer, heart disease, or other degenerative diseases. Amazingly, his research concluded that aging on a cellular level does not occur in sea life. Dr. Murray then analyzed the mineral composition of seawater and found more than 90 water-soluble elements present in a constant proportional balance (when an excessive amount of any element flows into the sea through erosion or run off, it precipitates out or drops to the sea floor). He determined that sea life lives and feeds in an environment where shortages or excesses in the 90+ periodic table elements are non-existent. It is common knowledge that our soils, and consequently the food grown in it, are seriously depleted of minerals through leaching, erosion and over cropping.

Current agricultural practices replace six to 12 of the 40 elements considered critical for optimum plant growth and development. All individual cells in the human body are constantly replaced during the process of cell division. These cells are supplied with elements and nutrients provided by the food ingested while cell division occurs. When critical elements are no longer present in our foods, they become nonexistent in our bodies. Therefore, Dr. Murray deduced that the only logical explanation for the frightening increases in cancer and other forms of chronic degenerative disease is the absence of a complete and balanced chemical physiology.

Dr. Murray also theorized that the most efficient method to remineralize our precious soils (and the resultant foods) to their optimum mineral composition is to recycle the elements lost to the sea back into the land. Thus, the technology of Sea Energy Agriculture was discovered. Dr. Murray conducted extensive agricultural research trials during a 30 year period. All trials were focused on the soil-root route of plant to animal nutrition. In his initial greenhouse experiments. He utilized the highest quality sea water collected by the US Navy three miles off shore in the Atlantic Ocean. He poured small amounts of sea water on the soil and determined that the 3.5 percent mineral solids in sea water had a profoundly positive effect on plant growth and development. As Dr. Murray began planning large scale experiments and field trials, he realized that the cost of securing the amount of sea water necessary to provide the required mineral solids to adequately remineralize soil was economically cost prohibitive. Therefore, he searched the world for a natural source of pure sea mineral solids that are elementally exactly the same as the ocean water the US Navy previously supplied. Fortunately, he discovered the perfect location in North America.

SEA-90 sea mineral solids, created in this specific location, are unique due to four major factors that Dr. Murray determined were essential for its creation. First, the specific location and source he found is fed by a sea extremely rich in minerals and trace elements due to ocean water enriched with billions of tons of top soil deposited by a powerful river into its delta for millions of years. Second, rare earth elements are added to this sea water mix from geothermal vents along a fault line on the sea bottom. Third, the location’s climate has average temperatures exceeding 100° F (37° C) and less than one-half inch (1.25 cm) annual rainfall guaranteeing quick solar dehydration and a complete mineral package since no elements are leached away. Fourth, and increasingly important, the area is extremely remote and remains pollution free. SEA-90 is created twice a year in retention ponds that are flooded with fresh sea water during tidal movement through its estuary and then solar dehydrated (totally green footprint).

These sea mineral solids (not sea water) were then utilized in Dr. Murray’s amazing research (more info). All his experimental data and conclusions are based upon the use of sea mineral solids as a soil fertilizer from the same exact location where SEA-90 is created. Dr. Murray never sprayed diluted solutions of sea water on plants as a foliar fertilizer nor offered sea mineral solids to livestock as a mineral salt. Therefore, staying true to Dr. Murray’s research, SeaAgri’s initial focus was to provide SEA-90 sea mineral solids to farmers and gardeners for the purpose of either broadcasting to incorporate into the soil or dissolving into hydroponics solutions. However, the price of transportation driven by the increase in the cost of fuel tripled during SeaAgri’s first year of operation. As a result, broadcasting SEA-90 per Dr. Murray’s instructions became increasingly cost prohibitive.

Realizing that SEA-90 offered a mineral and trace element package never before available in agriculture, our amazing customers began to experiment and subsequently found more cost effective ways to incorporate SEA-90 into their programs. For example, farmers and gardeners dissolve SEA-90 and utilize it in liquid row support and foliar solutions and/or mix it with humate, liquid fish and other biologicals. Producers of compost and compost tea add SEA-90 into their mixes to feed and increase biological populations. Conventional farmers report benefits by adding dissolved SEA-90 to herbicides and insecticides for foliar application. Dairy farmers and ranchers now offer SEA-90 to their livestock and poultry by free choice, in their feed and mineral mixes, and also dissolve into the drinking water. Most continue to broadcast and incorporate SEA-90 into their soils but at significantly lower application rates, and all report outstanding results. SeaAgri encourages the incorporation of any one, a combination of several, or all of the newly discovered methods into your farm, ranch or gardening program to provide sustainable nutrient levels in livestock, poultry, soils, crops and pasture at a fraction of the cost of commercial fertilizers.

Dr Murray’s research discovered that agricultural soil fertilized (remineralized) with SEA-90 sea mineral solids produce sustainable, nutrient-dense crops and pastures. However, the same crop nutrient density is also achieved through modest broadcast and/or foliar applications of SEA-90. The benefits are: increased profits, production, shelf life, and improved flavor and reduced losses due to frost, drought, insect and disease. Farmers and ranchers can utilize SEA-90 to reduce operating costs by using less fertilizer, harmful pesticides, insecticides and fungicides. Livestock that is offered SEA-90 or fed nutrient-dense crops and pasture mature to ultimate weight and size in less time with less feed and exhibit improved health with fewer abnormalities. Most important, SEA-90 is a product that is used with confidence by farmers, ranchers and gardeners during transition from conventional to natural, sustainable and organic production and certification.

SeaAgri believes that Dr. Murray was correct with regard to his instructions for sustainable soil remineralization with multiple broadcast applications in most agricultural areas. However, farmers, ranchers and gardeners who wish to achieve Dr. Murray’s results and maximize production with significantly lower annual cost can incorporate several or all of the new application methods into their agricultural programs and systems. Consequently, it is necessary for SeaAgri to revise our original application instructions and guidelines to reflect the new information (see applications section).

Dr. Murray was awarded patents for his discoveries regarding the application of sea mineral solids to agriculture and hydroponics. In addition, he authored “Sea Energy Agriculture” in order to document his findings and to share his discoveries. More recently, Charles Walters, Acres USA, wrote “Fertility From the Ocean Deep” summarizing Dr. Murray’s research while offering more insight into this amazing and extraordinary gift from Nature.

Currently, additional research is conducted globally on a continual basis by research stations, farmers, gardeners, and hydroponics growers. SeaAgri plans to publish and post the results as they become available.

Links to additional information:

Acres USA books “Sea Energy Agriculture”
Acres USA books “Fertility from the Ocean Deep”
Acres 2005 article

Murray's Trace Mineral Article
Murrays Research with sea minerals Doc.
Murray in Acres
Murray's ACRES USA 1976 Speech