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You know there are certainties in life. Death and taxes are the normal answer, but what about positives? The sun rises, the ocean is pulled by the tides, and plants are going to need fertilizer to reach their maximum potential. Let’s look at how Sure-K works.

Sure-K
Sure-K is a soluble potash that gives plants the nutrients they need during key reproductive stages. Potash, or potassium or a potassium compound, has been used in agriculture for ages, as well as during the infancy of our country. In fact, in 1790, George Washington signed the first patent issued in the United States – and it was to Samuel Hopkins for making potash.
However, there’s always room for improvement.

Why AgroLiquid Sure-K?
Sure-K plays an important role in a variety of ways:

• Yield
The right potassium levels contribute to increased crop yields. Sure-K supports the development of fruits, seeds, and tubers, helping plants achieve their full yield potential.

• Stress tolerance
Potassium helps plants cope with various environmental stresses, like drought, disease, and temperature fluctuations. It also helps the plant’s ability to resist and recover from stress conditions.

• Nutrient uptake
Potassium plays a role in regulating nutrient uptake by plant roots. It can improve the plant’s ability to absorb and utilize other essential nutrients, promoting balanced nutrition.

• Water management
Sure-K helps regulate water uptake and loss in plants, contributing to better water use efficiency. This can be particularly beneficial when rainfall doesn’t keep up with demand.

• Quality
The right potassium levels can improve the quality of harvested crops. This may include attributes such as color, taste, and nutritional content.

• Balanced nutrient ratios
Maintaining proper potassium levels contributes to balanced nutrient ratios in the soil, preventing nutrient deficiencies or imbalances that can negatively impact plant growth.

• Improved disease resistance
Potassium has been linked to improved disease resistance in plants. Strengthening cell walls and promoting overall plant vigor can make plants more resistant to certain diseases.

In addition, the Sure-K formula provides for the best use at lower concentrations, and it has no chlorides or hydroxides. As a result, it preserves soil health long-term and makes it a safe potassium solution for any cropping system. Sure-K makes it easy to maintain the right potassium levels or correct potassium deficiencies. It can be applied in many different ways and safely combined with other nutrients or crop protection products, so growers can make fewer trips across the field. As with many AgroLiquid offerings, Sure-K also takes advantage of Nutriq Technology, which provides slow-release nutrient delivery exactly when plants need it.

Research
AgroLiquid has been performing trials testing the effectiveness of Sure-K for many years on different crops, in various parts of the county, on a variety of crops. Check out our records on:

• Soybeans – For 24 years, Sure-K has proven to provide a yield and economic benefit when foliar applied on soybeans.
• Ryegrass seed
• Corn
• Navy beans

“The biggest benefit of Sure-K is it’s a very flexible product,” said AgroLiquid national agronomist Stephanie Zelinko. “There are a number of different ways you can apply it, including in-furrow, foliar, and side dress. It works well on a number of different application processes. Plus, it also has years of research to back it up – our first data point with it is in 1998.”

Conclusion
The benefits and the research are clear: Sure-K gets essential nutrients to plants when they need it, resulting in better yields. It’s effective in improving growth and productivity across a wide range of crops and regions. If you’re not getting the results you want…it’s time to look into a product with a little more certainty. Find out more!

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AgroLiquid has looked extensively at permanent plot trials at the North Central Research Station, where the same fertilizer programs are used on the same plots over a series of seasons. With this methodology, researchers can determine year over year changes. The question: Will AgroLiquid perform over time? The answer: Yes, and we’ve got the research to prove it.

Finding out the exact science of what works through trials helps our researchers, agronomists, and sales team make the best decisions for you and your crops. Other advantages of permanent plot research include:

• Long-term impact assessment

One of the strengths of permanent plot research is the ability to assess the long-term impacts. AgroLiquid research provides a reliable and consistent nutrient supply over the duration of these studies, so researchers can not only observe immediate effects, but also monitor nutrient management and results for a series of years.

• Soil health monitoring

Soil health is always a focus, and the precise application of liquid fertilizers helps maintain a balanced nutrient profile in the soil to help with a healthy microbial makeup. Over time, this contributes to improved soil structure, nutrient cycling, and overall soil health in permanent plots.

• Adaptability to crops and practices

In permanent plot research, where the goal is to understand the impact of changes on different crops, this adaptability matters. Researchers can customize nutrient management strategies based on the needs of each crop, allowing for a better understanding of agronomic practices.

• Data-driven use

The precision application of fertilizer minimizes runoff and leaching, which helps with the responsible farming practices that permanent plot research supports. AgroLiquid also helps with data-driven decision making. The consistent and precise application of fertilizers generates reliable data on the response of crops to specific nutrient use. This helps everyone involved make better decisions about resource use, to help with the best productivity.

What results did the data give?

The first plot trials ran from 1996 to 2005 on corn, comparing AgroLiquid Pro-Germinator, Sure-K, Micro 500, and High NRG-N use with conventional liquid, and conventional dry. The results: The AgroLiquid program had a higher average yield despite lower pounds per acre of actual nutrients applied, and did not have extra application trips of dry fertilizer.

Researchers performed tests over ten years of corn yields and ten years of soybean yields, all with four replications of treatments. Here are the results for the permanent plot corn yields 2011-2020.

What do you notice?

Yields were much higher than the 170 bu/A yield goal, even for the nitrogen only. The highest average yield was with AgroLiquid. The AgroLiquid yield was statistically higher than the conventional dry treatment, and the AgroLiquid yield was significantly higher than that of the “pound for pound” rate of conventional fertilizers.

That’s not all…this table shows the extra corn produced over 10 years compared to using only nitrogen. By using Pro-Germinator, Sure-K and Micro 500, an extra 219.3 bu/A was produced, which is like producing an entire extra year of corn.

With permanent plot research, AgroLiquid can help understand the effects with continuing monitoring and analysis, helping us refine our products and practices over time. Our goal is to give growers the best, evidence-based solutions for increased yields, better soil health, and a more positive agricultural future.

Our trials provide evidence that AgroLiquid not only performs consistently over time, but also beat conventional fertilizers in both yield and efficiency. The long-term impact assessments, soil health monitoring, adaptability to crops, and data-driven precision application highlight the advantages of this approach.

For all of our research, visit our site.

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Even though we want everything to happen quickly, it doesn’t always work that way – and it’s not always the best. With fertilizer, it can lead to a waste of time and money. But what if you were able to tap into both the fast and slow?

As we all know, crops need phosphorus to grow well. But when we use phosphorus fertilizer, we have to be careful about tie up in the soil, which means the phosphorus can’t be easily used by the plants. In soil that’s more acidic, phosphorus can get stuck because of iron, aluminum, and manganese. In soil that’s more basic, calcium is what makes it difficult for plants to use the phosphorus.

But! Pro-Germinator avoids tie up in the soil.

Pro-Germinator is a mix of phosphate, nitrogen, potash, and iron which is used to help crops at their growth stages. The combination of quick-release phosphates with slow-release, carbon-protected, polymer phosphates, promotes growth early on, and then continues to support plants through their reproductive stages.

Avoid Tie Up

Pro-Germinator contains both ortho-phosphate and carbon-protected polymer phosphate to provide readily available and controlled-release phosphorus…but what does that mean for you? It means there is minimal danger of tie up in the soil. Pro-Germinator’s phosphates are protected by AgroLiquid’s proprietary nutrient technology, which means there’s nutrient extraction throughout the plant’s growth.

Low Risk of Tissue Damage

The risk of tissue damage can be a danger with some fertilizers, but Pro-Germinator protects crops by using a safe formulation that doesn’t cause plant tissue damage. As a result, it can be safely used at planting with little risk of seedling injury, making it a powerful part of a planter fertilizer program.

Application

Not only can it be used as early as planting, but it can also be applied in a variety of ways. You can apply by broadcast, topdress, sidedress, as a foliar, or through fertigation. With this flexibility, you can reduce manpower and make fewer trips across the field.

These benefits make Pro-Germinator a valuable tool for growers looking to optimize crop growth, yield, and crop quality.

Pro-Germinator:

• Stimulates early growth: Pro-Germinator promotes faster and earlier growth of crops, allowing them to quickly establish themselves.
• Improves seed formation: It enhances the seed formation process, leading to even better-quality crops.
• Balances nutrient supply: Pro-Germinator’s formula provides a well-balanced source of essential nutrients, including phosphorus, nitrogen, and potassium.
• Reduces risk of leaf burn: Unlike some fertilizers that can harm early plants, Pro-Germinator has a gentler formula that minimizes the risk of leaf burn and seedling injury.
• Is compatible with other products: Pro-Germinator can be easily mixed with crop protection products – nutrients, pesticides, fungicides* – which helps for application management.

We invite you to read our research:

Experimental Phosphorus on corn

Pro-Germinator saves application costs on potatoes

Evaluation of Pro-Germinator and spring-uP combinations in corn

Pro-Germinator vs grower standard

For more information, go here.

*Always follow label instructions and perform a jar test before mixing any fertilizers or crop protection products.

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With so much going on this time of year, it’s easy to focus on now, but it’s critical to start thinking about next year. Postharvest irrigation and fertility can be the most important aspect of growing trees and vines. Increasing yields and quality depends on having a solid postharvest plan.

After the stress of harvest, nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium will begin to transition from leaves to spurs in almonds, and from leaves to roots and woody tissues in vines. In almonds, bud initiation and differentiation has already begun, so the fate of the next crop is already underway. Water stress at this point in time will significantly reduce next year’s crop.

Postharvest irrigation is also very important to ensure that the leaves stay active for as long as possible so they can continue photosynthesizing and storing much-needed carbohydrates for next year’s crop. When dormancy breaks in early spring, trees and vines will be functioning solely on stored nutrients. Nutrient uptake from the soil is very minimal at this point due to cool soil temperatures as well as the lack of leaves.

Adequate postharvest fertility to replenish nutrient reserves will help make sure that your crop has the energy it needs to maximize production when dormancy breaks come spring.

Nitrogen (N)

Up to 20% of the total seasonal demand for nitrogen in almonds can be applied postharvest. This is also very similar for grapes. Postharvest nitrogen will help maintain leaf area and extend the time for photosynthesis to keep producing carbohydrates in the trees and vines.

Postharvest N will also ensure that reserves are replenished and early shoot growth and leaf out will be strong in the spring. It is important to take in-season tissue samples into consideration when determining how much nitrogen to apply. Any soil-applied nitrogen in the nitrate form that is not taken up by the roots will be subject to leaching from rainfall and irrigations.

Foliar-applied nitrogen is also a good choice for postharvest applications. It is common to use a fast acting nitrogen source in this situation, such as urea-based products.

Phosphorous (P)

The amount of phosphorous used by trees and vines is much less compared to the demand for nitrogen and potassium. However, this does not mean it’s less important for optimal growth and yields. A postharvest application of phosphorous will promote healthy fall and spring root flushes, as well as ensure the trees and vines have a good energy source when dormancy breaks in the spring.

Choosing a phosphorous fertilizer that is protected from tie up from cations in the soil is important and will ensure that it’s free and available for the plant to uptake as needed.

Potassium (K)

Potassium demand in almonds and grapes is even higher than that of nitrogen. A postharvest application of potassium is essential in order to restore reserves, even more so if your yields were above average this season.

Potassium is an important aspect in plant water relations and cell reproduction. If potassium reserves are deficient when dormancy breaks in the spring, new fruiting spurs will develop at a slower pace or even die prematurely as compared to a tree that has optimal potassium reserves. Root uptake is minimal at this point, so a soil application of potassium will serve to replenish K reserves in the soil.

A postharvest foliar application of potassium is a great way to ensure you get the potassium into the trees and vines to replenish those reserves. Choosing a K product that is free of chlorides and hydroxides, as well as effective at penetrating the leaf cuticle and easily translocated once in the leaf will provide the greatest return on your fertilizer investment.

Zinc (Zn)

Zinc is a very important micronutrient that plays a major role in synthesizing auxins. These auxins ensure a uniform bud break and a good fruit set in the spring.

Almonds are commonly zinc deficient. This is due to a number of reasons, including certain rootstocks that are not adequate at taking up zinc from the soil. Zinc deficiencies are also common in areas with alkaline soils. Zinc is fairly immobile in the soil so postharvest foliar applications are most effective at correcting deficiencies and restoring reserves.

Boron (B)

Collecting hull samples to send off for boron analysis should be a staple in your postharvest game plan. Hull samples are the most effective indicator of boron levels in almonds.

Boron is very critical for development of flowers, specifically pollen development and viability. If the hull analysis shows less than 80 parts per million boron, the trees are deficient and are most likely losing yield potential. Postharvest foliar applications of boron are an effective way to correct deficiencies and restore boron levels in the tree.

On to the next

As you complete this year’s harvest, let your mind shift gears and begin thinking about next year’s crop. Its fate is already underway and having a solid postharvest irrigation and fertility game plan will ensure your trees and vines go into dormancy with adequate nutrient reserves.

With a good postharvest fertility program, your crop will be off to a great start come spring and you’ll be well on your way to improving yields and quality year after year.

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We’re nearing the most exciting, stressful, and rewarding time of the year for farmers – so don’t let up on the gas before harvest. Finish the season strong! If you want the best quality yield, you’ll keep working with your crop right to make sure you reach its full potential.

Let’s look at how it works all season long, and how AgroLiquid can help.

Soil testing

Growers need to know the current condition of the soil to know how to best help what’s planted in it. Not only does this help identify deficiencies, but it also tells them how much nutrition is already in the soil to balance out the added nutrients. Of course, this changes over time, so regular soil testing is needed. The soil test also reports on the relationship of nutrients in the soil; if one is high, it can affect the availability of others.

Tissue testing

During the season, this gives growers a deep understanding of what’s happening in the actual plant. It answers questions about nutritional effects and its current nutrient status. As a result, growers can look at tissue tests to help decide the next steps of a nutritional program.

Foliar applications

If the crop is lacking in a nutrient, the next step is to determine why its deficient, and what a grower can do about it. If it’s decided that a nutrient needs to be applied, then a foliar application with liquid fertilizer can be directly applied to the leaves, get absorbed, and move through the leaves into the plant. This is a quick method to make a difference in the crop. Already making a pass for fungicide or other crop protection application? Why not add nutrition to the tank to help finish out the season strong? Ask an AgroLiquid representative how this type of application can work for you.

Complete seasonal support

AgroLiquid nutrient plans are designed to provide the right nutrients at the right time, to make sure crops have access to what they need most during all growth periods. By preparing for the crop, testing the crop, and applying the right fertilizer, growers can can help prevent nutrient imbalances and deficiencies that could hinder the plant’s potential. This is true all season long.

Late-season fertilizer

Using late-season fertilizer contributes to improved growth, yield, and overall crop health. Advantages include:

• Maximized yield potential: Late-season fertilizer applications help make sure crops get the necessary nutrients during their critical growth stages, maximizing their yield potential and optimizing the production of fruits and grains.
• Nutrient balance: Help maintain a balanced nutrient profile in the soil, and make sure essential nutrients – from nitrogen to boron – are available in the right proportions.
• Nutrient uptake: Providing nutrients in the later stages of growth helps address any nutrient deficiencies that may have developed over the growing season. This allows crops to absorb nutrients more efficiently, which can lead to healthier plants and improved yields.
• Improved crop quality: Nutrients provided during late season contribute to factors like taste, color, size, and nutrient content, making crops more appealing and potentially more profitable.
• Stress resilience: Crops face various stressors as they approach maturity, like fluctuating weather conditions, pests, and disease. Late-season fertilizer applications boost resilience by supplying the nutrients needed to fight these stress factors, reducing the risk of yield loss.
• Extended growing period: Late-season fertilization can extend the effective growing period for crops, allowing them to continue their development even as the natural growing season starts to wane. This can be especially beneficial in regions with shorter growing seasons.
• Adaptation to crop variability: Different crops and growing conditions can result in varying nutrient requirements. Late-season fertilization allows growers to adjust nutrient applications based on crop performance and specific conditions, making sure each crop receives the support it needs.

Start with soil testing, move onto tissue testing, and go with a flexible nutrition plan – your crop will be supported all season long. Incorporating late-season fertilizer applications into crop management practices offers a strategic advantage by addressing the needs of crops as they approach maturity. This can result in healthier crops, improved yield quality, and ultimately, a more successful harvest. Happy harvesting!

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So many factors go into producing a good crop, whether it’s fertilizer, the soil conditions, or the right weather. Tissue testing is another tool to help understand what you can’t necessarily see. Let’s look at what tissue testing is, how it works, and why adding it to your process is a benefit that outweighs the cost.

Crop Tissue Testing
You want to get to know everything about your crop, and tissue testing helps you get to know it even better. Routine testing is usually carried out mid-season to judge if the crop has the right supply of nutrients. For farmers who do routine tissue testing, it’s part of the normal monitoring system, not usually done in response to a suspected issue. Tissue testing is useful for checking the nitrogen, sulfur, and micronutrients like iron, zinc, manganese, boron, and copper, which are more difficult to determine in only a soil test.

A nutrient deficiency can lower the yield potential, but tissue sampling can catch it early when there’s still time to solve the problem… at least with some nutrients. Even though tissue testing looks only at nutrient levels, when farmers combine it with scouting fields, understanding nutrient relationships, and the willingness to try and fix issues that are found, growers can improve their crops.

Growers aren’t purposely under-fertilizing crops, so deficiencies can be a sign of a bigger problem. Drought, disease, soil compaction, insect and weed pressure can all contribute to a crop’s use of applied nutrients. Tissue testing can help navigate the path your crops are taking to harvest.

Let’s look at the potential benefits:

• Nutrient Management
Tissue testing provides exact information about a plant’s current nutrient status. Everyone’s trying to get the perfect mix of what crops need, and having information about plants down to the tissue level helps address specific deficiencies. This in turn helps avoid the cost of possibly using a fertilizer your crops don’t even need.

• Early Detection
Tissue testing can detect imbalances before they are visible. Identifying and correcting deficiencies at an early stage can improve plant health, leading to stronger and more resilient crops. The earlier problems are identified, the better a yield will be.

• Maximizing Crop Yields
When crops have access to the right balance of nutrients during important growth stages, they can reach their full potential. Tissue testing recommendations can help increase crop yields and improve the overall profitability of the harvest.

• Cost-Effective
Fertilizers are an unavoidable input cost when you’re aiming to grow the best crop. By identifying deficiencies through tissue testing, growers can apply nutrients required for optimal yield. This targeted approach minimizes the chance of using unnecessary products, which results in cost savings.

AgroLiquid’s tissue testing services are accompanied by personalized crop management recommendations. All of it is based on the specific nutrient deficiencies – or excesses – found in the tissue analysis. As a result, farmers can use targeted strategies to address the specific needs, which ultimately results in a better harvest.

How It Works
If you’re doing routine tissue testing, sampling needs to be done at the correct growth stages, from the right part of the plant. Farmers should take tissue samples from 20-30 plants in each field. Use paper bags instead of plastic to avoid mildew. During transportation, keep them in a place they will retain their moisture. Plus, give the plants time to absorb any supplied nutrients before trying to immediately measure their effect. Help the lab by providing all the requested information on the submission form, so they can help you interpret the nutrient levels for the crop type, growth stage, and plant part you sampled. Check out this explanation that further describes how to tissue test properly. Or this handy Plant Tissue Sampling & Analysis Guide from Midwest Labs.

While a tissue test is only a single point in a season, when taken at different times, you can record trends and explore multiple areas of health diagnostics.

At AgroLiquid, we want to help you grow the best crop possible, and we’re here to help. Talk to our agronomists about getting a tissue sample or starting a program.

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When you want the best for your crops, you have to take every nutrient into account. Sulfur is important in crop nutrition because it is used in the formation of amino acids, oils, and proteins. Not only is it necessary for chlorophyll formation, but it also helps develop and activate enzymes and vitamins.

As a result, AgroLiquid developed accesS® – our 100% plant-available, high-efficiency liquid sulfur fertilizer. Our formula allows plants to more efficiently absorb sulfur and keeps more plant-usable sulfur in the soil.

accesS has many application options, including:

• with planted placement in a band away from the seed
• broadcast or banded over the top of the seed zone
• as a topdress
• as a sidedress
• through fertigation

Responsible

Our formula allows plants to more efficiently absorb sulfur and keeps more plant-usable sulfur in the soil. At the same time, accesS uses a lower concentration of sulfur at lower rates, but provides the same or better results compared to commodity fertilizers.

AccesS may be applied anywhere five or more pounds of elemental sulfur are required. The unique Nutriq Technology makes accesS more efficient than other sulfur fertilizers, and therefore requires a lower rate. This prevents the sulfur and other nutrients from loss due to leaching, which also prevents environmental damage from nutrient toxicity.

What’s Nutriq Technology? AgroLiquid’s proprietary technology is a unique way to encapsulate nutrients. With it, we can ensure nutrients are released slowly and directly to plants throughout the growing season. This also ensures that plants have the nutrients they need when they need them.

Deficiencies

Sulfur deficiency and nitrogen deficiency can both cause yellow leaves and stunted growth. However, the symptoms appear on different leaves. Sulfur deficiency causes yellowing of young leaves, while nitrogen deficiency causes yellowing of older leaves.

Please note, repeated application of other nutrients can create an imbalance in the soil and lead to a sulfur deficiency. This makes regular soil testing important for maintaining optimal yield and reaching full growth potential.

Other benefits include:

• Corrects or prevents sulfur deficiency, stunted growth, and reduced yields
• Increases nitrogen utilization
• Easy to apply with other nutrients or crop protection or crop protection products*
• Contains a chlorophyll building micronutrient package including zinc, manganese, and iron
• Easy to apply at planting or throughout the growing season

See the research for yourself

AgroLiquid accesS Sulfur FurrowJet® Study

Effect of accesS at Sidedress on Corn Yield

Measuring Success of accesS

accesS Application through FurrowJet in Corn

accesS applications on Wheat

Effect of accesS in eNhance or corn

Listen:

Listen to XtremeAg.farm podcast: Keeping Sulfur Levels Up and Plant Height Down

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Say you want to start getting a little more fit. What’s the best way to do it? You make an exercise plan that works for you, including activities you like doing in the time you have during the week. You make a diet plan that incorporates nutritious foods you like in reasonable amounts. After you follow the plan for a few months, you get results – a healthier body.

The same is true for planning for a healthy crop. The value of a prescription crop nutrition program is that it’s tailored exactly to your soil, location, cultural practices, conditions, and goals.

Soil

Everything starts with the soil. Soil testing is the first step, since testing can tell you nutrient levels, pH, base saturations, organic matter, and cation-exchange capacity (CEC).

Each of these factors affect how your crops absorb water and nutrients, whether they’re usable in the soil, and the biological activity determining soil health.

A soil test can also tell you what nutrients or additives can help you increase yield. For example, low levels of some micronutrients can decrease utilization of other macronutrients. The crops will still be productive, but not as productive as they could be. To know what you’re working with, start by knowing exactly what the soil contains.

Follow these soil testing steps for the most accurate results.

Tissue Testing

Soil testing reveals the health of the soil, but to show how plants actually absorb these nutrients, you need a tissue test. A plant tissue sample will show what nutrients the plant has absorbed and the movement of nutrients throughout the plant.

Combining a tissue test with a soil test is a great way to see what’s really going on with your crops. It can also help you identify if organisms are affecting your plant, disease has set in, or if the plant’s root growth is insufficient for nutrient absorption. This way, you can get the full picture of the plant’s environment, and its reaction to that environment in a particular moment in time.

Follow these tissue testing steps for the most accurate results.

Location

Understanding how location influences crop growth can help you make informed nutrient application decisions.

Different crops have different optimal temperature ranges for growth, and the temperature can affect the ability to absorb nutrients. For example, if the temperature is too high, it can cause water stress in plants, or if it’s too low, it can slow down plant growth and nutrient uptake.

Location and climate also influence soil type, which impacts nutrient availability. In regions with high rainfall, the soil can be leached of nutrients, making it harder for plants to access nutrients. In locations with sandy soils, nutrients can be washed away by heavy rainfall, and in regions with heavy clay soils, nutrients can be tightly bound to the soil particles, making them less available.

Management Practices

Keep in mind any management practice that could affect how, when or the rate of fertilizer that may be applied. This includes tillage practices, soil amendment placement, cropping patterns and soil type. For instance, if fertilizer is being applied during planting, keep planter placement of crop nutrients in mind, and be sure you are pulling soil samples at 6” – 8” in the strip. This is important in getting an informed fertilizer recommendation for the area.

Goals

Farmers want the healthiest crops with the best yields. Instead of doing what you’ve always done, or guessing at the ratios, it’s possible to take in more information and get better results.

AgroLiquid has 30 years of research to prove that balancing nutrients, using better raw materials, and proper application can improve efficiency…and increase yields. Our local agronomists would love to discuss your soil, climate, and goals with you.

Based on this, we’ll present you with crop nutrition options, including recommended products you can apply to achieve your crop goals.

Contact us

Just like a nutrition and health plan will make you look and feel healthier, following a similar plan will help you also see the results in your crops.

Fill out the form to request we contact you to review your soil analysis and help develop a crop nutrition plan that fits your goals – and your budget.

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AgroLiquid’s LiberateCa® is a liquid fertilizer designed to prevent or correct calcium deficiency for all types of crops, in many different soil types.

On XtremeAg: Cutting the Curve Podcast, host Damian Mason spoke with XtremeAg founding member Kelly Garrett and AgroLiquid sales account manager Aarron Stahl about their experience with LiberateCa.

This season, AgroLiquid and Kelly Garrett are conducting research in 40-acre test plots, in different soil types.

Part of the impetus for this research was that Garrett was dealing with insoluble calcium issues, which were a limiting growth factor.

Calcium bully
“In our soils, calcium can be the most prevalent nutrient, and it has double positive charge. It’s a bully in the soil, because it ties up all the other nutrients, because it’s trying to get neutral,” Garrett said. “It’s my biggest limiting factor.”

After tissue sampling, Garrett was surprised to learn that even though he had prevalent calcium in the soil, he was still calcium-deficient, since it was insoluble.

Garrett shared a very personal account of where AgroLiquid LiberateCa made a difference for his crop.

In 2017, Garrett was growing soybeans, and he had 110,000 stand count with an average of 162 pods on every plant. A bad storm came in, the soybeans laid down, and they aborted half the pods. When they stood back up, they had 80 only pods, and they made 88 bushel.

“It was devastating to me,” Garrett said. “I thought here I was going to have way over 100 bushel beans…I had it, but we couldn’t harvest it, so it doesn’t count.”

He then tried to plant early soybeans under irrigation, and he thought he had 100 bushel again, but only got 80. The problem was that the branches got so heavy they couldn’t support themselves, and they laid down.

“We put LiberateCa into our program, and we ran a trial…just touching the plants and pushing on the branches, the skeletal strength was remarkable,” Garrett said. “The different was remarkable, and it’s a grower standard practice now.”

During the trials, along with using LiberateCa, they are going to aim to finish out the later pods, push nitrogen and Sure-K, and work with the vascular system to translocate nutrients.

Backbone
LiberateCa is the backbone that allows the other nutrients to spread across the plant and supports a better harvest.

Other benefits include:
• Correcting or preventing calcium deficiency, stunted growth, and reduced yields
• Promoting strong plant cell growth
• Improving resistance to stress, drought, and disease
• Balancing soil salinity
• Improving water penetration through soil
• Easily apply at planting or throughout the growing season
• Easily apply with other nutrients

Overall, it has an average ROI of $31.36/A.

Real-world application
Calcium is a valuable tool for growers to maximize the health and productivity of their crops. Like Kelly Garrett saw on his fields, even though the soil has calcium, it isn’t always readily available. With LiberateCa, you can make the most of your resources.

Talk to your AgroLiquid representative about LiberateCa to see how you can increase your yields.

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