Balanced Plant Nutriton

Balanced Plant
Nutrition Overview

Making the most efficient use of your dollars spent on crop nutrition is a constant goal of all growers today. As crop nutrition prices increase, each grower tries to maintain the balance between obtaining higher crop yields and staying within an overall crop inputs budget to obtain the highest possible profit level from each field.

We recognize this continual challenge that growers face each year as they prepare their crop plans for another growing season. Trying to bring about the economic balance with the natural and ever changing environmental conditions can be very frustrating. Our goal is to reduce the risk from variable weather conditions by managing the nutritional requirements for the crop in a balanced, timely manner to maximize net profits. This approach ensures the crop has the proper nutrition at each of its growth stages yet allows growers to be flexible in applying nutrients as the growing conditions vary during the season. The plant must have the proper balanced nutrition to be able to succeed under a variety of adverse conditions. While our products are part of a complete fertilizer package, they are not meant to replace your base fertility program.

Planting

Once the seed has germinated, nutrition for the young seedling is provided by the starter nutrition program. One of the limiting factors affecting nutrient uptake of starter nutrition early in the season is soil temperature. Many growers today cannot seed all of their acres at the most opportune time so steps need to be taken to overcome this unavoidable problem. Healthy seedlings that are vigorous help to reduce the stresses brought on by harsh environmental conditions and seedling diseases. Phosphate and potassium are key nutrients for the establishment of a healthy crop. Once the root mass has been established, the plant is able to take advantage of the nutrients from the base fertility program.

Starter fertilizers require time to dissolve or to break down the polyphosphates into the plant available orthophosphate form. NACHURS starters are already in a liquid soluble form and 80-100% of the phosphate is in the orthophosphate form. The majority of potassium in the soil is not available to be taken up by the plant; it is commonly recognized that approximately 1% of the soil resident potassium is readily available in the soil solution making it available for exchange within the soil complex and plant uptake. NACHURS liquid fertilizers are very efficient in supplying nutrients for plant uptake even under cold, dry soil conditions. The low use rate of NACHURS fertilizers helps to reduce the overall time and handling of supplying crucial nutrients and helps increase planting efficiency. Growers can also easily apply any additional NACHURS micronutrients to balance the crop’s nutritional requirements.

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Vegetative & Reproductive Stages

Foliar applied plant nutrition supplies the crop with further nutrition determined by environmental conditions and by soil and plant tissue tests, maximizing yield potential and nutrient efficiency. Depending on the plant’s requirements, NACHURS foliar nutrition products can be applied economically with many crop protection products at various stages. This dual application increases a grower’s time efficiency and reduces application costs. NACHURS has developed several foliar nutrition products which can be mixed with additional NACHURS micronutrients to provide the proper nutrition solution.

NACHURS foliar nutrition programs give the grower the flexibility to reduce the base fertilizer program and then manage the remaining nutrient budget in a manner which ensures the efficient use of each nutrient by the plant. In doing so, the grower is proactively reducing their risk with environmental conditions and increasing profit potential.

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