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Energize Your Crops. Rudy Allen, CPAg-CCA Ag Tech Services, LLC Mount Vernon, Washington 32 years in the agricultural retail business from in field sales to co-op General Manager. Associated with BHN for the last seven years. Why Chose BHN Products?.
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Energize Your Crops • Rudy Allen, CPAg-CCA Ag Tech Services, LLC Mount Vernon, Washington 32 years in the agricultural retail business from in field sales to co-op General Manager. Associated with BHN for the last seven years.
Why Chose BHN Products? • Good Agronomics: The products are designed to work with the plant and not against it. • Repeatable Quality: If it works once, it will work again. • Manageable Rates: It does not take gallons per acre to make things work.
Horizontal Integration( Working Together) • Soil Complexity: Interactions with soil types and nutrient levels is an on-going process. • Plant Complexity: If you think soils are complex, try figuring out a plant under stress! • Biological Complexity: PGPR’s and how they fit.
One Crop at a TimeSilage Corn • The plant on the right has 1-19-0, SuperPhos, and PGPR Galaxy in furrow at planting. • 29.5 tons per acre with a value of $1,083 per acre.
Green Peas • Plant on the left has two quarts 1-19-0 with one ounce of PGPR Galaxy in furrow at planting. • County average was 2 tons per acre. This field went 2.7 tons for an additional $280 per acre.
Spinach Grown for Seed • The plant on the right has 2 quarts of SuperPhos, 1 quart of Z-Max, and 1 ounce of Galaxy banded over the row after planting. • Variety average was 1,600 lb per acre and we got 2,720 lb per acre. $582 per acre increase.
Peas Grown for Seed • Treatment was 2 quarts of 1-19-0 and 1 ounce of PGPR Galaxy in furrow on the seed at planting. • Average yield is 1,200 pounds per acre. We got 2,800 pounds per acre and 90% germ. An increase of $1,600 per acre.
Zap Trial on Red Onions • The three plants on the right were from an area treated with 2.75 gallons of Zap per acre. Application was at the 3-5 leaf stage and watered in. • Yield was twice the untreated check.
Full Program on Potatoes • Top slide is yellow potatoes with BHN planter, SuperPhos, and PGPR. • Bottom slide is a “just like” program.
Crop-Gard on Silage Corn • Crop-Gard was applied at 1.5 quarts per acre broadcast.
Crop-Gard (cont.) • This was 7 days after application. • The rule is “Apply Crop-Gard and go fishing for 3 days.” • When they come back, they have a new crop. • This field went 32 ton per acre.
Magic, Smoke and Mirrors or Just Good Agronomics? • Its All In The Roots: If you take care of the roots, they will take care of the plant. • Plant Hormones: Hormones that drive yield are produced in the root and shoot of the plant. • IAA and Cytokinin: IAA keeps the root developing and Cytokinin triggers seed shoot development.
How DoesHorizontal Integration Work? • Soil Products • Lase, Blend, Kleenstart: All work to amend the soil, aid in friability, and reduction of salt. They also increase soil biological activity. • PGPR Galaxy/Enhand: Both are plant growth promoting rhizobacteria whose activity is enhanced by the presence of Lase, Blend, and Kleenstart. PGPR also triggers Induced Systemic Resistance (ISR) in plants.
Horizontal Integration (cont.) • Foliar Products • Vitol, Vitol II, Breakout: All contain naturally occurring plant health properties that aid in the overall health of the plant. • PGPR Stealth: Foliar applied plant growth promoting rhizobacteria that also triggers the plants immune system known as Systemic Acquired Resistance (SAR).
Vitol vs. Actagro Foloplex 6-23-6 on Red Potatoes • Foloplex applied at 1 gallon per acre with 3 applications during the bulking period. • 27.75 ton per acre • A’s 66% B’s 22% C’s 12% • Gross value per acre $19,587
Vitol vs. Actagro (cont.) • Vitol applied at 1 quart per acre with 3 applications during the bulking period • 29.0 ton per acre • A’s 65% B’s 19% C’s 16% • Gross value per acre $20,923 • Difference of $1,336 per acre
How Did 3 Quarts Out Perform 3 Gallons? • Solution pH: Foloplex is 6.6 while Vitol is 2.3. Trying to get a phosphorus molecule with a neutral pH into a plant is like pushing an elephant through a window. • Stress Reduction: Vitol reduces stress and enhances tuber set and bulking better than Foloplex.
Challenges for the Future • Education • Even more than the farmers, we need to get the dealers to “buy” into the program. • Look at the number of sales people the typical dealer has. • Dealer meetings with good independent data.
Challenges (cont.) • Marketing • Make it as easy as possible for customers to buy from us. • Keep the quality at its present high state. • Local advertising featuring specific product for specific crops. • Vitol: potatoes, onions • Breakout: soybeans, peas, bush beans, small fruit, tree fruit.
Questions? • Thank you to the following: • Lyndon, Eldon, Mike S., Mike B., Stuart and the rest of the BHN staff. • Rudy Allen, CPAg/CCA • Ag Tech Services, LLC • agtech@comcast.net • www.agtechservicesllc.com • Ask about “The Growing Edge”