New bio-stimulant range maximises nutrient uptake while reducing nitrogen requirements
Yields and quality can be improved, profits increased, and environmental concerns addressed with a new hybrid bio-stimulant product that reduces the total nitrogen application needed on crops.
Helping to short circuit the natural growth process by harnessing nitrogen in its amine form, AminoA BLAAZT also combines amino acids to create an extremely efficient means of introducing a concentrated form of nitrogen into the plant.
“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.
Building on farming’s positive environmental credentials through the coronavirus crisis, AminoA BLAAZT ticks many boxes, allowing for the efficient application of nitrogen in Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs). It also reduces the carbon footprint of transporting bulky fertilisers.
The original amine-based product was produced some 20 years ago by Mr Phillips in the challenging growing conditions of Poland, with the intention of improving root development, and hence drought tolerance in combinable crops, and boosting wheat protein levels.
“We have performed extensive trials of the product, initially in northern France and then throughout the UK, since 2018,” says Mr Phillips. “The trials have resulted in very high wheat protein, combined with growth responses we have never seen before.”
The hybrid product combines the amine nitrogen with complexed calcium and amino acids, boosting new root growth development and the plants’ ability to maximise the uptake of available nutrients. This in turn reduces overall fertiliser applications and costs.
Formulated to mix with most agrochemicals, improving their efficiency, applying AminoA BLAAZT can result in reduced field operations, while significant amounts of the crop’s nutritional requirements can be delivered simultaneously.
“Significantly less nitrogen needs to be applied, and in very fertile soils we believe it may be possible to eliminate classical nitrogen application entirely,” adds Mr Phillips.
“This is really a revolution in crop nutrition, combining the amine nitrogen with complexed calcium, micronutrients, fulvic and humic acid, and a broad spectrum of L-isomer amino-acids,” he says.
“The neutral pH enables efficient nutrient uptake, it is safe for the environment and the operator, and also improves efficacy with other inputs, including fungicides.”
The product is now being fully introduced into the UK market, with the first formulations being produced from the UK mixing and production facility, just outside of Cardiff.
Recommended for use on all crops, AminoA BLAAZT is the latest range of this new generation of biological crop stimulants, following the success and impressive performance of AminoA FLO, the easy-to-use liquid natural amino acid complex.
AminoA FLO has demonstrated impressive results across a series of independent trials throughout 2018 and 2019, achieving yield increases in winter wheat of upwards of 1.2 t/ha in Eurofins trials during the drought year of 2018.
Mr Phillips says, “All of our products are deliberately designed to have broad spectrum activity as they contain every essential amino-acid that plants synthesise throughout their growth cycle.
“Therefore, if applied to the plant at any stage, from sowing to maturity, they can contribute positively to yield and quality if the plant is not already producing an optimal level of amino acids itself.
He concludes, “Most of our customers are conventional arable farmers who have realised that the judicious use of bio-stimulants can boost yields and profits whilst at the same time sustaining the fragile ecosystem in our soils.”