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Harmony Organic Dairy · Field Corn

An organic dairy salvaged 300 vole-destroyed acres with a late corn planting and no fertilizer budget left. The crop emerged in a week and reached full maturity despite going in two weeks late.

Conducted by Video interview with Sean Mallet, owner-operator of Harmony Organic Dairy. First season on the equipment, single farm, no control plot.

LOCATION: Twin Falls, Idaho
PERIOD: First growing season · unit installed 30 May, corn planted 2-4 June
EQUIPMENT: ¾" President Water Vortex Generator

AT A GLANCE

9 to 10ft

Stalk height

With 14-row kernel cobs, no fertilizer applied

~1 week

From planting to emergence

Planted 2-4 June, emerged 9-11 June

Zero

Fertilizer applied after planting

Season budget spent on a vole infestation

SOURCE MATERIAL

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Every figure on this page is traceable to the documents below. Nothing is modelled, estimated, or extrapolated.

VIDEOSean Mallet, Harmony Organic Dairy, Twin Falls ID, on Vortex Structured WaterThe full video interviewWatch→TRANSCRIPTInterview transcriptComplete transcript of the video interviewOpen→REPORTExecutive summaryPresident Water's summary, including its own limitations sectionOpen→

CITATIONMallet, S. (2026). Customer Testimonial: Vortex Structured Water on Field Corn. Harmony Organic Dairy, Twin Falls, Idaho. First growing season, unit installed 30 May.

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KEY FINDINGS

What the trial measured

Germination and crop development without fertilizer

THE STANDOUT RESULT

Corn was planted 2 to 4 June, roughly two weeks behind the typical local date of 15 May.
Seedlings emerged 9 to 11 June, about a week after planting, which Mallet says he had never seen before.
No fertilizer was applied after planting because the season's budget had gone on the vole infestation.
The crop still reached 9 to 10 feet, against a grower who is 6 feet tall, with well-developed 14-row kernel cobs.
It reached full maturity despite the two-week late start.
Mallet attributes part of the rapid germination to the treated water while noting favourable soil temperatures as another factor.

Water use

Mallet did not intentionally reduce irrigation at any point.
Center-pivot irrigators repeatedly got stuck during the season, inadvertently reducing water actually applied.
The crop performed well despite receiving less water than usual.
He concludes from this that the field had likely been over-watered in prior seasons.

The grower's own voltage check

Mallet used a handheld voltage meter to compare water before and after the unit.
Readings moved from about 0.4V toward a range of 1.1 to 1.5V across several readings, roughly a threefold increase.
He presents this as an informal farmer check, not a calibrated or laboratory-verified measurement.
No interpretation of what the reading means for plant response is offered in the source.

“Seedlings had emerged roughly one week after planting, which Mallet said he had never seen before.”

Sean Mallet, owner-operator, Harmony Organic Dairy, Twin Falls, Idaho

WHY THIS MATTERS

The circumstances are what make this one interesting. This was not a showcase planting. It was a salvage operation on 300 acres a vole population had destroyed, planted two weeks late by a farmer whose input budget was already gone.

So the crop got no fertilizer, less water than intended because the pivots kept bogging, and a compressed season. It emerged in a week and finished at nine to ten feet with full cobs. Whatever else is true, the crop did not behave like one that had been starved.

The honest reading is that too many things changed at once to attribute any of it. Late planting, no fertilizer, and accidentally reduced irrigation are three variables moving together, and a good season for soil temperature sits underneath all of them. Mallet says as much himself.

There is also no yield figure. The corn was headed for the chopper as silage and had not been weighed when the interview was recorded, so the strongest quantitative thing in the account, tonnage off those 300 acres, is the one number nobody has yet. Worth asking Sean for it.

METHOD

Trial at a glance

OPERATION: Organic grass-based dairy, Twin Falls, Idaho
CONTEXT: Vole infestation destroyed roughly 300 acres of pasture in production since 2006
EQUIPMENT: President Water Vortex Generator, ¾", installed 30 May
CROP: Field corn, planted 2 to 4 June against a local norm of 15 May
EMERGENCE: 9 to 11 June, roughly one week after planting
FERTILIZER: None applied after planting. Season budget spent on the vole problem
IRRIGATION: Center pivot. Not deliberately reduced, but repeatedly interrupted by equipment bogging
CROP RESULT: 9 to 10 feet, well-developed ears, 14-row kernel cobs, full maturity
YIELD: Not available at the time of filming
CONTROL: None. Single farm, first season

WORTH NOTING

Findings that cut against the headline. We publish them because a grower deciding on a retrofit deserves the whole picture.

Single farm, single season, with no side-by-side control plot, so outcomes cannot be attributed to the vortex generator.
Multiple agronomic variables changed at once: a later planting date, no fertilizer application, and reduced irrigation from equipment malfunction. No single causal factor can be isolated.
Voltage readings were taken with a handheld consumer meter, not calibrated or laboratory-verified equipment, and their agronomic meaning is not established.
No formal yield weighing, Brix testing or soil biology data was collected. Final yield figures were unavailable at filming.
Favourable soil temperature is acknowledged by the grower as a contributing factor to the rapid germination.

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