Technical Abstract: Soil organisms can have beneficial or detrimental effects on plants. Biotic amendments can be inoculated into the soil, and placed in proximity to plant roots. Inoculation of microorganisms in one year may provide benefits to crops that may be measurable over time. Soil was inoculated with species of Rhizobium bacteria; species of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae (VAM); both; or neither before, or at sowing of, peanut. Yields and pod ratings of peanut were determined. Treatments did not affect yield or pod rating for peanut. In two following years bell pepper or navy bean were planted into treated plots. Treatment did not affect yield of bell pepper or navy bean. Inoculation did not benefit crops. This may be because populations of these organisms may have been present in the soil, and inoculation with biotic organisms did not provide additional benefit.