Improve performance results while reducing CO2 footprints
Achieve significant ROI and help reduce carbon footprints with biological seed and foliar treatments this autumn
As we head into the key autumn foliar treatment period for cereal crops, now is the time to include bio-stimulant applications within tank mixes, to help achieve performance results and return on investment, while also helping to reduce farm carbon footprints.
UK bio-technology company AminoA’s natural bio-stimulant and nutrient source AminoA FLO has consistently revealed evidence of both performance and cost benefits in interaction with fungicides, across independent and replicated trials.
Reducing total nitrogen application
Its hybrid bio-stimulant product, AminoA BLAAZT, is also demonstrating the same yields and quality improvements, while addressing environmental concerns by reducing the total nitrogen application needed on crops.
“By harnessing the amine form of nitrogen, normally only produced and found in the plant itself, AminoA BLAAZT helps improve yield and quality in all crops,” explains AminoA managing director Richard Phillips.
“Not only providing effective nitrogen nutrition, it also reduces the risk of environmental pollution from the run-off of easily leached chemical fertilisers,” he adds.
Allowing for the efficient application of nitrogen in Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs), AminoA BLAAZT also reduces the carbon footprint of transporting bulky fertilisers.
Colin Chappell of Gander Farm in North Lincolnshire, winner of the new on-farm sustainability Rawcliffe Bridge Award in July, has focused on reducing inputs, using AminoA BLAAZT for the past three years as part of a wider programme to reduce nitrogen applications.
Including BLAAZT in foliar applications for spring crops to relieve stress in wheat, while applying later in OSR at pod fill, Mr Chappell explains, “I have been able to achieve a 40 kg reduction in nitrogen use this year.
“We have still been able to achieve relatively good results with low inputs, and BLAAZT plays a role in supporting this,” he says.
Seed treatments
Mr Phillips also advises preparing biological seed treatments this autumn to encourage speedy crop establishment and root biomass, while reducing overall input costs and achieving a significant return on investment.
AminoA STAART is a new seed treatment containing a complex of 18 L-isomer amino-acids and natural phytohormones that are essential for early growth and development, while increasing the plants resistance to abiotic and biotic stress.
It is suitable for use in all crops and fully approved for use in organics. In cereals at the standard rate, 3 litres tonne, it has delivered yield responses in the range of 200-500 + kg ha in a wide range of climatic conditions, making it a very cost-effective input.
“AminoA STAART encourages vigorous root development and growth, while improving the efficiency of other agrochemicals and fertilisers and working in harmony with the soil microbiology.
“By stimulating continuous root development, STAART increases the plants ability to uptake nutrients, ultimately increasing yields and improving profits,” concludes Mr Phillips.