Learn how to get all of the nutrition you can from your granular fertiliser by viewing our recent webinar, "Improving Granular Fertiliser Efficiency for Higher Yields & Profits."
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Trials from South Australia continue to show wheat yield gains when Basis XC is used with granular fertilisers to improve nutrient availability and enhance nutrient utilisation by the crop.
In a wheat crop in South Hummocks, SA, DAP fertiliser (24:16:00) was applied at a base rate of 100kg/ha. Where the fertiliser was treated with Basis XC (2L/tonne of DAP), the grower had a yield increase of approximately 275kg/ha compared to untreated. There was also a significant increase in wheat quality, from ASW to H1.
These photos from several trial sites in South Australia show some of the outstanding visual responses to Basis XC in wheat this year. In the photos, you can see that Basis XC has improved wheat performance both above ground and below. The most frequent visual response is a more vigorous and extensive root system. Additionally, NDVI imagery from the South Hummocks trial site demonstrates how, by improving granular fertiliser efficiency, Basis XC can also improve the yield response in wheat. Basis XC was applied on granular fertiliser at 2 L/tonne in all trials.
As farms deal with tight budgets, this simple granular fertiliser demonstration shows why Basis XC offers a sound profit opportunity for growers.
As you can see in the photos, adding Basis XC to DAP (18-46-0) and MOP (0-0-60) fertilisers has accelerated the breakdown of fertiliser granules in the treated jars. This improvement in nutrient release can translate into greater fertiliser efficiency in the paddock.
Wheat and lupins have been showing a strong response to Basis XC-treated granular fertiliser in these Cooke Plains, South Australia trials.
In the photos below (taken in mid-August), wheat from the treated side of the paddock shows more vigour and darker colour compared to wheat from the untreated side.
In the Southern Highlands of Goulburn, NSW, Nutrien Ag Solutions senior agronomist Jim Colquhoun is working hard to give his clients the best opportunities to increase production and quality in their pastures. Jim uses an array of exclusive technologies from Nutrien Ag Solutions to tailor nutritional programs that not only improve his clients' yields, but also provide them with solid economic benefits.
Some of the products Jim has found to be a good fit in his region include Awaken, with its patented zinc ammonium acetate technology, Basis XC, with unique biochemistry that quickly releases nutrients from granular fertilizers, and ESN Smart Nitrogen, with a flexible polymer coating that only unlocks when the right soil temperature is achieved. With these tools and other technologies, Jim's clients will be better able to meet increasing food demands.
A crop's ability to access nutrients from granular fertilisers is dependent on how quickly the fertiliser granules break down. Treating the fertiliser with Basis XC can hasten that process, as seen in this video from a pasture trial in South Australia.
Congratulations to farmer Rick Martin, the winner of an iPad Mini for attending our 2017 Basis XC webinar, "A New Basis for Improving Granular Fertilizer Efficiency."
He is pictured here (right) with Agricen Australia's director of sales.
Rick has been a customer of Nutrien Ag Solutions Wagga for several years. Following a recommendation from Nutrien Ag Solutions agronomist John Anderson, Rick trialed our original Basis technology with good success last year. He joined us for our Basis XC webinar in February to better understand the science behind the technology that had proved strong on his farm.
Treating granular fertiliser with Basis XC accelerates the breakdown of fertiliser granules for rapid nutrient release and improved nutrient uptake by crops. This time-lapse video shows how quickly Basis XC works to break down 9-23-30, 11-52-0 and other granular fertiliser blends, such as 12-17.5-0 (10S) (1Zn).
Basis XC, a new, next-generation formulation of Agricen Australia’s biocatalyst technology for granular fertilisers, is now available from Loveland Agri Products through Nutrien Ag Solutions.
Designed to improve granular fertiliser efficiency, Basis XC 'unlocks' applied nutrients, making them available more quickly in the soil for plant uptake. By improving fertiliser efficiency, it also helps growers maximise the return on their granular fertiliser investments.
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