MEND
MEND creates a complete living soil microbiome and sells it to farmers as a ready to apply liquid, so the nutrients already in the soil reach the plant and the farm buys fewer agrochemicals
About Us
MEND, formerly ReGen, makes a complete living soil microbiome: bacteria, fungi, protozoa and the beneficial nematodes, plus natural metabolites, concentrated without killing the biology. We restore the biology that makes the nutrients already in the soil available to the plant.
Most biological products introduce a single isolated strain into a system that only works as a group. Our concentrate contains the complete microbial groups and runs on equipment the farm already owns, through seed treatment, fertigation or foliar spray.
Four independent institutions have tested it, and we ran none of the trials. The Ministry of Agriculture measured 14% more nitrogen intake in wheat. MIGAL measured about 80% less fungal infection in cotton. Evogene maintained onion yield on half the nitrogen. HaMadama and the Volcani Center saw broomrape pressure suppressed in sunflower.
Today MEND works with commercial growers in Israel across wheat, cotton, onion, sunflower, strawberry, potato, avocado and mango, plus four large nurseries running pilots. More than 1,000 microbial species are identified by DNA sequencing of the formulation, and diversity is steered through feedstock ratios. There are no patents for now, by choice. The process is a trade secret.
Relevant Challenges
Reduce Inputs
Agrochemicals are about 25% of a farm’s operating cost, and their use has doubled since the 1990s for the same yield. Much of that cost is buying what the soil used to make on its own. MEND’s complete living microbiome restores the biology at the root zone, making nutrients already in the ground available to the plant so the farmer can reduce what they buy. Evogene tested the microbiome in onion at half the nitrogen and the yield held: 26.95g against a full nitrogen control of 28.83g. In wheat, the Ministry of Agriculture measured 14% more nitrogen intake. We did not run either trial. The liquid applies through seed treatment, fertigation or foliar spray, using equipment the farm already owns, so cutting inputs costs nothing in new machinery.
Crop Resilience
A plant growing in biologically dead soil has no partners at the root. It reaches less, feeds less efficiently, and has less to fall back on when conditions turn. MEND puts the full group back: bacteria, fungi, protozoa and the beneficial nematodes that feed on them, plus natural metabolites. Most biological products send one isolated strain into a system that only works as a group. At MIGAL, Galilee Research Institute, cotton treated with our microbiome showed lower fungal infection. At HaMadama with the Volcani Center, broomrape pressure in sunflower was suppressed. We ran neither study. What the trials do not yet show is a second season or a different soil type, and both are in the winter plots.
Soil Fertility
70 years of treating soil as an inert medium fed from outside stripped the biology from it. The nutrients are still in the ground. Without the microbes that cycle them, the plant cannot reach them. MEND restores the full group: bacteria, fungi, protozoa and the beneficial nematodes that feed on them, plus natural metabolites, all concentrated without killing the biology. The microbes break down organic matter and release nitrogen and phosphorus in forms roots can take up, so the farmer buys less fertilizer for the same crop. Evogene held onion yield on half the nitrogen (26.95g against a full nitrogen control of 28.83g), and the Ministry of Agriculture measured 14% more nitrogen intake in wheat. We ran neither trial. More than 1,000 microbial species are identified by DNA sequencing of the formulation, and diversity is steered through feedstock ratios rather than assembled from isolated strains.
Regenerative Practices
Restoration only scales if it pays. Most growers cannot afford a multi-year transition that costs yield in the meantime, so MEND is built to fit the farm as it runs today: a ready-to-apply liquid, through seed treatment, fertigation or foliar spray, on equipment already in the shed. It works synergistically alongside no-till, cover cropping and rotation, giving those practices a living microbiome to work with instead of waiting for one to rebuild on its own. Compost and manure add material, but little of the living biology survives the trip to the root. Compost tea dies within hours. Our concentrate stays viable for months. Lior, transitioning a mango orchard to organic, put it this way: “Even with the difficult organic transition, the trees look healthy.” Soil restoration is a multi-season job, and we would rather say that plainly than promise a result in one.
