Benefits

The following is a list of benefits from the application of Biochar:

• Soil enhancement that lasts a lifetime
• Enhanced plant growth 
• Improves tilth and reduces soil bulk density
• Increases soil water holding capacity
• Increases cation exchange capacity (CEC - the ability to hold onto and transfer nutrient cations: ammonium, calcium, magnesium, and potassium)
• Suppressed methane emission
• Supports soil microbial life and biodiversity
• Reduced nitrous oxide emission (estimate 50%)
• Reduced fertilizer requirement (estimate 10%)
• Reduced leaching of nutrients
• Stored carbon in a long term stable sink
• Reduces soil acidity: raises soil pH 
• Reduces aluminum toxicity
• Increased soil aggregation due to increased fungal hyphae
• Increased soil microbial respiration
• Helps plants resist diseases and pathogens
• Stimulated symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes
• Increased arbuscular mycorrhyzal fungi