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Comparing Common Methods of Irrigation Water pH Control
Choosing Your Approach: Managing pH in Agricultural Irrigation Water
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Understanding Black Layer on Golf Course Greens
Understanding Black Layer on Golf Course Greens: Causes and Prevention With Water Quality
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Effects of Carbonic Acid on Bicarbonates in Agricultural Production
A technical analysis answering the critical question: Does carbonic acid for pH control add bicarbonates to water? Addresses farmer concerns with chemistry, research evidence, and 9+ years of field data.
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How Soil Texture Shapes the Drip Irrigation Wetting Pattern
How soil texture shapes the drip irrigation wetting pattern under an emitter, and why sand, loam and clay wet in three different shapes.
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Video Blueberries Started Responding When We Switched to ECO2MIX
Rajbir Singh grows blueberries in the Central Valley on hard ground with poor water. Ten months after an ECO2MIX system went in, he describes what changed in the growth and the quality of the plants.
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Video Why an Agronomist Puts His Growers on Carbonic Acid
Eryn Gray owns AgroSource and has advised growers for 20 years. He explains why carbonic acid water pH control replaced the water treatment products he used to recommend.
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Video Can Carbonic Acid Support Blackberries?
Phillip Adam of Innovative Produce in Santa Maria compares ECO2MIX carbonic acid water pH control against the sulfur burner and the untreated water he used on his blackberry blocks before it.
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Video Who Keeps Your Water pH Control System on Target?
Mark Velasquez covers the Central Coast between Watsonville and Santa Maria, checking every ECO2MIX system on his route. What a fully managed water pH control service looks like from the technician's side.
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Video ECO2MIX at the Cal Poly Strawberry Center Field Day 2026
ECO2MIX brought a full reactor skid and a mini scale model to the Cal Poly Strawberry Center Field Day on July 23, 2026. Carlson Herbert and Mark Velasquez on what growers wanted to know.
Watch & read → Effects of Carbonic Acid on Bicarbonates in Agricultural Production
A technical analysis answering the critical question: Does carbonic acid for pH control add bicarbonates to water? Addresses farmer concerns with chemistry, research evidence, and 9+ years of field data.
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High Bicarbonate Irrigation Water on Golf Courses
High Bicarbonate Irrigation Water on Golf Courses
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Nanobubbles vs Carbonic Acid for Turf
Nanobubble Technology vs Carbonic Acid Technology for Maintaining Optimal pH for Turf on Golf Courses
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Understanding Black Layer on Golf Course Greens: Causes and Prevention With Water Quality
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Carbonated Irrigation in a Tempranillo Vineyard: What the Research Shows
ECO2MIX summarizes a peer-reviewed study on carbonated irrigation water in a Tempranillo grapevine vineyard — covering nutrient absorption, yield improvements, and what it means for inline carbonic acid pH control.
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Choosing Your Approach: Managing pH in Agricultural Irrigation Water
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Sustainable Water pH Treatment for Almonds
Keeping the almond industry alive and healthy in California. Due to rising costs, uncertain demand, and rising input costs for almonds, growers across California are looking for ways to cut costs and increase production.
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Video Tom Lipscomb — Golf Course Superintendent Testimonial
Golf course superintendent Tom Lipscomb shares four years of experience bringing an 8.4 pH well down to 6.8 with ECO2MIX — and what happened to the calcium buildup in his pipes and greens.
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Video Recycled Water, Growing Healthy Strawberries
A field visit to Watsonville, CA where ECO2MIX is treating recycled municipal water for a strawberry grower — proving the system works with well water, district water, and recycled water alike.
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ECO2MIX visits Seven Oaks Country Club in Bakersfield, California for their annual spring soil sampling — running BeCrop and Haney tests to track four-plus years of carbonic acid treatment results.
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Video Silas Rossow — California Ag Solutions Testimonial
Silas Rossow of California Ag Solutions in Madera, CA shares how ECO2MIX's carbonic acid treatment improved soil microbial health and reduced fertilizer inputs for the growers he works with.
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Advancements in Water pH Control – A Look at Carbonic Acid Application
Advancements in Water pH Control – A Look at Carbonic Acid Application
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Video How We Started Looking at Soil Health
Waldo Moraga, founder of ECO2MIX, explains how the company started as a pH control service — and what farmers started telling them that changed everything.
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Video MyAgLife Podcast: Automated Water pH Control
Waldo Moraga on the MyAgLife podcast: why carbonic acid replaces sulfuric acid without an acid tank on the farm, and what side-by-side tests showed about soil microbes.
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TurfNet Webinar: Benefits of Carbonic Acid in Water for Turf Health
Waldo Moraga presents 22 slides on how injecting CO2 to form carbonic acid safely controls water pH, improves soil health, and enhances turf conditions — with live poll results from the TurfNet audience.
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BeCrop Case Study: Results from Two Years of Strawberry Carbonic Acid Application
Over the past two years, we've partnered with Biome Makers to study the co-benefits of carbonic acid-treated water on strawberries. This case study highlights the positive changes we've observed.
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Video The Secret Ingredient Behind Your Strawberries
A Human Element short film follows a California strawberry farm using ECO2MIX's carbonic acid water treatment — and why Waldo Moraga believes it's as natural as rain.
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ECO2MIX Acid Replacement Technology
ECO2MIX offers a comprehensive equipment and supply capability aimed at replacing sulfuric acid or sulfur burners for pH control of irrigation water systems.
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Irrigation Water Acidification Using Captured CO2 — An Option to Traditional Acidification Systems
Technical analysis of how captured CO₂ provides an alternative to sulfuric acid and sulfur burners for irrigation water acidification, with benefits for soil health and sustainability.
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On the Equilibrium Concentration Ratio of Carbonic Acid Substances Dissolved in Natural Water
A foundational 1955 study by K. Saruhashi showing how pH and temperature determine the ratio of carbonic acid, bicarbonate, and carbonate in fresh water — with tables and a chart for practical use.
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What is pH?
pH is one of the most important parameters in the solution that delivers water to crops, either through irrigation or through the moisture present in the soil. This matters a lot when defining what ty
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