Delta nitrogen treated Piper potatoes grown on very good soil at Old Leake Nr Bost Lincolnshire. The pictures were taken on 28th August 2012. Treated Piper. We took a yield dig of 3 metre from a full run of crop, no misses in the run and the treated sample seen here produced a yield of 17.7tonnes/ac.
Good uniformity good skin finish and looking very promising.
These Delta treated Piper are growing well and will continue to bulk and will continue to receive 2 litres per ha as a weekly feed.
As OSR struggles to become established after such a difficult summer and such a wet and cold autumn the decision to apply NHKDelta @ 4.4 litres /ha and 2.2 litres/ha of 1-4-ALL was made. this was applied on very small plants on 26th September 2012.
12 October 2012. Good healthy expanded leaf mass and the crop after two weeks is just starting to meet in the row.
4th October 2012. After the first week the plant has responded with increased leaf mass and healthy growth. Growing conditions this week have not been great but at least these are moving along.
12 October 2012. Good healthy expanded leaf mass and the crop after two weeks is just starting to meet in the row.
19th October 2012. The weather this last couple of weeks has been cold and wet with night time temperature dipping to near zero. The crop however continues to grow very well.
Note this has recieved nil base fert or standard nitrogen. The crop has recieved 4.4 litres of NHKDelta and 2 litres of 1-4-ALL, which is providing the crop with less than 1kg of N. Delta and 1-4-ALL is feeding the crop in a way that encourages a more naturalized bushier growth and better rooting. 1-4-ALL offers the plant bioavailable trace elements that that the plant can utilize when growing conditions are poor, such as the cold late established crops we see here.
This picture was taken on the 26th October 2012, one week further on. The crop continues to grow well despite the cold weather we have had in the last week. The crop has only recieved the 4.4Ltrs of Delta /ha and the 2.2ltrs of 1-4-ALL/ha back on the 26th September 2012.
This picture was taken on 2nd November 2012, one week further on. The weather for the week continues to be cold overcast and wet and despite the poor growing condition the rape is doing very well.
Worlaby Farms is situated just off the Bluestone Heath road 5 miles East of Cadwell Park, nestled within some of the prettiest parts of the Lincolnshire Wolds.
Worlaby Farms is a typical Wold farm, thin chalk soil in places on some reasonably impressive hill sides. The farm is ring fenced with a good deal of grass and woodland and offers a day’s shooting of some repute. I’m not selling the shooting but suffice to say that the farmer has achieved this yield, as he does every year, accommodating a plethora of wildlife including a good many rabbits.
Last year (growing year 2010-2011) NHCaDelta was applied on a failing potato crop on some sandy land down at Tumby, Nr Horncastle. It was very clear that we were on to something after our products recovered the droughted, un-irrigated crop from near disaster and delivered a harvest of some 25 tonnes/acre of quality ware potatoes.
Due to our previous success, Worlaby Farms was keen to use our NHDelta and 1-4-ALL products in a more intensive combinable crop regime. Their belief, given what we knew then, was that he could, with our help, produce record breaking crops of wheat across his farm. So the husbandry strategy for 2011-2012 was hatched!
During the growing season conventional nitrogen was applied. In addition the stabilized bio-available chemical nitrogen in the form of NHCaDelta and NHKDelta was foliar applied through the growing season. Along with the uptake enhancer 1-4-ALL the crops continued to grow well.
Delta enhances leaf mass and encourages good root structure and growth. Delta does not readily leach through the soil profile nor does it volatilize into the atmosphere and given the very high rainfall this year, Delta was the perfect food for the plant.
Like so many crops, the wheat at Worlaby looked exceptional all year, you could not get more ears in the field and the World Record Attempt was on!
….and then….. it rained and rained and rained, putting pay to attempts to achieve the world record breaking crop that we seriously thought was very possible! Right up to the last month of the growing season the crop looked like some sort of record would be broken, but the weather was to play one more devastating hand and more rain came and seemed to make the challenge even more difficult.
The Oil Seed Rape harvest and Barley harvest came with great success. These crops had also received the Delta and 1-4-ALL programs and the OSR ran at a little over 2 tonnes/acre.
The harvest of the wheat’s at Worlaby started the week of the 3rd September and I sat with the combine driver on four separate days and we weighed 100 acres across a weighbridge which allowed us to fully calibrate the combine yield monitor. I watched the yield monitor with interest and seldom saw the figures dip below 4 tonnes/acre.
The crop across the whole farm ran at between 73 up to 78 kg/hl and delivered an average yield of 4.1 tonnes/acre (10.12 tonnes/ha). The last field, being 35 acres in size, ran at 5.1 tonnes/acre (12.59 tonnes/ha) and was the earliest drilled on the farm on 19th Sept 2011. Interestingly the best part of that field was running at between 5.6 and 6.1 tonnes/acre (15.06 tonnes/ha) and this was the part of the field that had not been rolled in the back end.
We are devastated that no world record or UK record could have been broken this year at Worlaby, but we are all delighted that such good results have been achieved given the immense odds against such results. This is a testament, I believe, to the good farming by Worlaby and the good products supplied by us and others in the industry, whose interest is to maximise output and optimise arable husbandry.
More details of Worlaby Farms attempts to break the World and UK wheat record are now been collected and further details will be posted on this website soon.
I met with vegetable grower Mick Nundy from Windy Ridge Farm, just outside Boston on 17th April 2012 who was concerned that his brassica plugs under glass were developing very slowly due to the poor light and cold weather conditions we have had recently. The crop has received the normal program of base fertilizer and looked well except it was not as well developed as Mick would prefer.
I recommended that he apply 5L per ha equivalent of NHCa Delta to the plugs. He took one tray, as a control, out of the site when the Delta was applied. The Delta was applied on Friday 20th April 2012.
The grower called on Friday 27th very impressed that after 6 days he had seen a very significant change in the crop. As you see from the pictures, the plugs have grown and developed very quickly, the leaf mass improved significantly within the very short time.
The new growth however was not the lush, fleshy plant growth that is typical of young plants fed with conventional nitrogen, the stems where stiff and robust and strong enough to transplant easily.
This farmer grows 10 million plugs and has been doing so for 50 years and he now uses Delta across all his veg crops from plugs in the glass house to potatoes in the field and has been very happy with the result.
The centre of this picture is a tray of untreated brassica plugs, which is the control and has a blue plastic rod marker stuck in it. As can be seen, growth is good in the untreated plugs but the leaf mass is poorer compared to the trays surrounding which have been treated with NHCa Delta fertilizer. Note the leaf colour is dark green and healthy. Picture taken on 30th April 2012.
Once again untreated plugs look good but behind you can see an expanded darker green robust treated plant. Picture taken on 30th April 2012.
Its clear to see that the NHCa Delta has had a positive effect on the growth of the plugs. Picture taken on 30th April 2012.
At the end of the NHCa Delta treatment it is clear to see the difference of the treated Brassica plugs on the left and the untreated plugs on the right of the picture. The plugs are healthier and stronger than those plugs that have not been treated and it is obvious that these plugs would handle very well when transplanted. Picture taken on 30th April 2012. Just 6 days after Delta was applied equivalent to 5L/ha