Author: bionature

One of our customers, Tim Lamyman from Lincolnshire has won his third YEN gold award for this year’s wheat harvest, and it’s partly down to bionature’s fertilisers.

Tim’s wheat crop yielded nearly twice the national average this year with 15.3t/ha, and that’s despite difficult weather this harvest season as well as a dry spring and a dull, wet summer.

A long-standing customer of ours, Tim is no stranger to The Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) awards, having won gold in 2014 and 2015 when he also set a new world record for wheat yield.

Reporting on Tim’s hat-trick, Farmers Weekly pointed out that our Delta programme was the secret to his success:

“A high nitrogen rate on Tim’s chalky soils, a comprehensive five-spray fungicide programme and widespread use of foliar feeds helped him produce a very thick crop of almost 800 ears/sq m at harvest.”

Tim used 380kg/ha of nitrogen in the spring followed by multiple applications of foliar feeds in the autumn to give his Zyatt variety crop a good root structure.

While Tim is already hard at work trying to set another wheat world record at his 600ha farm at Worlaby, it was just a few months ago that he set the world record for harvesting peas.

Tim’s combined pea harvest this year brought in 6.47t/ha, and once again nutrition was key, with foliar feeds being used throughout the season.

For that crop, our foliar application of Calflux gave the crop the zinc and calcium it needed early on, while Rainbow Wave added boron and molybdenum after flowering.

At bionature, we’re really proud of the part we played in helping Tim to achieve such amazing yields, and hopefully he can have an even more successful harvest in 2018!

Bionature is heading for CropTec, the UK’s leading technical and knowledge exchange show for the arable farming industry.

The two day show is for all farmers and agronomists who are looking for the latest information on innovative methods to increase profits from crop production – which exactly where we fit in!

With our extensive experience of agricultural fertilisers, well be showcasing our latest products and showing farmers how we can help you grow record breaking yields while reducing costs.

There are more than 150 exhibitors at this year’s CropTec Show along with presentations and seminars, making it a hub for everyone in the industry to meet and share ideas and experience.

Come to The CropTec Show at Peterborough Arena on November 29th & 30th and see how we can help you.

We started applying low rate NHCa Delta nitrogen on 23rd July 2012, the rate was just 2Ltr/ha with every blight spray. The first yield dig and photographs were taken on 28th August 2012.

The crop at the top of the picture, left of centre has received a standard program throughout the year. The rows to the right have had Delta applied but only in the last month. You can clearly see that above the line in the middle the crop is paler and beginning to give up. The crop below the centre line is greener and is hanging on and will continue to bulk up the tubers.

The right hand side has had a normal crop husbandry and the crop on the left of the centre line has received NHCa Delta at a rate of 2 Ltrs per ha applied with every blight spay.

The Delta treated yield dig showed a yield of 12 tonnes per acre (28.8t/ha) and good uniformity and good size. The crop still has potential to improve over the next two weeks.

The untreated part of the field produced a yield dig of 10.5 tonnes per acre (25.3t/ha) and the size was smaller and less uniform.

In a year when baking potatoes will attract very good premiums the uniformity and size becomes more critical.

Bartletts took this clay land and with so much rain this year it’s a miracle any potatoes have grown, but trial digs on another wet day at the end of August revealed a very good crop. The Manager wanted to use 30% less nitrogen and replace it with 3 x 10 litre applications of Delta. The yields for those treated and untreated were very similar although the Delta treated were marginally improved.

Size and uniformity of tubers for the Delta treated crop were better than those that had received 30% more conventional nitrogen fertilizer.

Delta treated potatoes look well, even and uniformed in size. NHCaDelta nitrogen with only 15% nitrogen applied over three applications of 10ltrs /ha have delivered the same nutrition as the untreated part of the crop. Delta at this rate has applied under 4kg of N.

The Untreated potatoes are growing well and look good but these are grown with 30% more conventional Nitrogen and no Delta.

This picture was taken of a washed sample of the untreated Crop. We can see that sample has a a full variation of size and is what would be expected.

This picture taken on the 14th November 2012 and shows the potatoes that have been treated with Delta. At this stage there is no significant difference in yield between the Delta treated that have had 30% less conventional Nitrogen and the crop that has not been treated to Delta. What is apparent however is the Delta treated tubers are more uniformed, even in shape and larger.