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From weeks of snow in the spring to one of the hottest and driest summers on record, 2018 has been an unpredictable year for growers, but for Bionature customers it’s been another excellent year.

We’ve helped to set multiple yield records, improved the quality of crops for major suppliers, launched new products, sold our product down-under and helped lots of growers improve their crop nutrition.

Summer sun in January

Back in January, we started working with a a grower in Australia, exporting our first ever shipment around the world. Australia has some of the most extreme farming conditions on earth with summer temperatures staying between 35 and 45°c during the day. To help our customer grow a successful potato yield in the sandy, loam soil and high saline water, he used NHK Delta, NHCa Delta, XStress and Rainbow Wave and the crop has done really well.

It’s really exciting to see how much our products can help farmers in the most difficult environments and it’s shown just how effective our products can be. We’ll be sharing more exciting news about our adventures in Australia in the new year, so keep an eye on our news!

Top That!

Peas, beans and pulses have relatively simple needs compared to other crops, but they still need fertiliser throughout the growth cycle if they’re to reach their potential. In May, we launched our newest product, ToPPit; a liquid foliar fertiliser designed specifically for peas and beans. ToPPit gives them all the essential nutrients they need to maintain strong and healthy growth and achieve higher quality yields. Don’t believe us? Spot the difference here.

Oilseed Rape world record

In a year when the average UK yield for OSR was 4.8-5.0t/ha, one of our customers smashed his own world record by growing 7.01t/ha of oilseed rape.

Paying close attention to the nutritional needs of the crops and applying our fertilisers at every stage of the growing cycle was the secret, helping the crops to produce deep rooting and relieving the stress of the hot, dry summer.

Spearhead Potatoes

This year, we’ve been working with one of the UK’s leading suppliers of crisping and shipping potatoes to help them improve the quality and reliability of their crops. Their first harvest showed clear improvements with fewer defects, lower glucose levels and improved yields. Senescent sweetening also occurred later, making the potatoes even better suited to chipping and crisping.

Winter wheat farm record

We love to see the difference that our products can make and one grower was thrilled to set a new farm record for winter wheat after using our products for a year. A bospeke combination of our products delivered a 120% return on investment for the farm, with a 78.4% increase in headcount for the winter wheat.

Double YEN gold for Tim Lamyman

Lincolnshire farmer and longstanding Bionature customer, Tim Lamyman took home two YEN gold awards for best field yield for his Marsden winter wheat and his Sparrow OSR crop. This brings the total number of OSR Gold Award’s Tim’s achieved since he started using our products to five. We’re extremely proud of having played a part in his success story.

Tim is already working hard on his plans for more award-winning yields in 2019.

Bring on the New Year!

2018 has been an excellent year for us and we’re really excited for the year ahead.

Bionature UK’s smart liquid fertilisers have helped a longstanding customer win two YEN gold awards.

Lincolnshire farmer Tim Lamyman has used our products to grow YEN-winning crops five times to date and this year he had top yields for oilseed rape and cereals.

Now in its fifth year and with more entrants than ever, YEN is all about helping growers understand how to improve their yields.

Tim won gold in best field yield for his Marsden winter wheat and for his Sparrow OSR crop.

YEN gold-winning cereal and OSR

Tim’s YEN-winning wheat yield was 16.2t/ha, while the OSR yield was 6.4t/ha.

This comes hot off the back of two new world records that Tim set for his oilseed rape and pea crops earlier this year.

In August when he harvested 7.01t/ha of OSR at the 600ha Lamyman Worlaby Farm in the Lincolnshire Wolds. His world record combined pea harvest achieved a yield of 6.47/ha.

Speaking to Farmers Guardian, Tim put his success down to good crop nutrition throughout the growth cycle:

“The crop received five applications of nitrogen – we use a little and often approach. It is definitely one of the things that helped build yield this year with the drought coming fairly quick. A lot of people hadn’t got nitrogen on but we got it on early and applied it right through season.”

Great results in a tough year

All of these are incredible yields that were well above the national averages. 2018 was a very challenging year for farmers because of the extremely hot and dry summer which was the joint hottest record. Despite this, Tim’s harvests have surpassed his YEN winning yields for 2017.

We’re extremely proud of our work to support Tim who used foliar applications of our smart liquid fertilisers are stages throughout the growing cycle.

Work is already underway for Tim’s 2019 harvests, and we’re excited to see how he’ll build on the results for a very successful 2018.

If you’d like to find out how Bionature UK’s range of smart liquid fertilisers can help you, contact our team.

Every grower knows that proper fertiliser can bring big improvements in the quality of their crops, but a year-long test of using Bionature’s smart liquid fertilisers for winter wheat has achieved unprecedented results-  a new record for the farm.

Bionature farmers are no stranger to using our range of products, but this year a bespoke combination of products was used to deliver a 120% return on investment with a 78.4% increase in head count.

Across three fields, our standard programme of smart liquid fertilisers was set against a control programme of fertilisers typically used by growers for winter wheat and a specially customised programme of our products.

The three fields were practically identical, all on the same farm, at the same time, almost the same size, and growing the same variety of sky scraper winter wheat – demonstrating the real difference that Bionature’s products can make.

The results

After measuring the results, the control programme produced 9.77t/ha with an average of 370 heads per m².

Our standard programme of smart liquid fertilisers for winter wheat, including NHK Delta and TipTop produced 10.54t/ha with an average of 430 heads per m² – a 16% increase in head count over the control field.

On the third field, the grower paid close attention to the specific needs of the crop at each stage of the growing cycle, even countering the extremely hot, dry summer with applications of X-Stress.

Using NHK Delta, TipTop, 1-4-All, CalFlux and X-Stress, with the same total quantity of fertiliser as used in the other fields, the field produced 12.19t/ha with an average of 660 heads per m² – This is a 78.4% increase of heads per m² over the control field!

This shows the real, measurable improvements that Bionature’s smart liquid fertilisers can make to winter wheat yields.

Proper nutrition delivers real improvements

While our standard programme of two smart liquid fertilisers for winter wheat deliver excellent results, we encourage farmers to monitor their crop and apply other products as appropriate. We work with our growers to help them get the best results possible.

Our fertilisers are affordable and designed to to provide your crops with the nutrients they need to grow stronger, healthier and with higher quality yields. For a 1.86 ha field, as used in the trial, our standard programme cost the farmer just £88.75. The improved yield however meant that the return on investment was £138, making our products well worthwhile.

For the 1.84 ha field using the specially tailored programme, the products cost £197.75 but the crop fetched more than double that in return, with  a £435.60 return on investment.

If you’d like help getting the most from your winter wheat, contact our team.

Every grower knows that proper fertiliser can bring big improvements in the quality of their crops, but a year-long test of using Bionature’s smart liquid fertilisers for winter wheat has achieved unprecedented results-  a new record for the farm.

Bionature farmers are no stranger to using our range of products, but this year a bespoke combination of products was used to deliver a 120% return on investment with a 78.4% increase in head count.

Across three fields, our standard programme of smart liquid fertilisers was set against a control programme of fertilisers typically used by growers for winter wheat and a specially customised programme of our products.

The three fields were practically identical, all on the same farm, at the same time, almost the same size, and growing the same variety of sky scraper winter wheat – demonstrating the real difference that Bionature’s products can make.

The results

After measuring the results, the control programme produced 9.77t/ha with an average of 370 heads per m².

Our standard programme of smart liquid fertilisers for winter wheat, including NHK Delta and TipTop produced 10.54t/ha with an average of 430 heads per m² – a 16% increase in head count over the control field.

On the third field, the grower paid close attention to the specific needs of the crop at each stage of the growing cycle, even countering the extremely hot, dry summer with applications of X-Stress.

Using NHK Delta, TipTop, 1-4-All, CalFlux and X-Stress, with the same total quantity of fertiliser as used in the other fields, the field produced 12.19t/ha with an average of 660 heads per m² – This is a 78.4% increase of heads per m² over the control field!

This shows the real, measurable improvements that Bionature’s smart liquid fertilisers can make to winter wheat yields.

Proper nutrition delivers real improvements

While our standard programme of two smart liquid fertilisers for winter wheat deliver excellent results, we encourage farmers to monitor their crop and apply other products as appropriate. We work with our growers to help them get the best results possible.

Our fertilisers are affordable and designed to to provide your crops with the nutrients they need to grow stronger, healthier and with higher quality yields. For a 1.86 ha field, as used in the trial, our standard programme cost the farmer just £88.75. The improved yield however meant that the return on investment was £138, making our products well worthwhile.

For the 1.84 ha field using the specially tailored programme, the products cost £197.75 but the crop fetched more than double that in return, with  a £435.60 return on investment.

If you’d like help getting the most from your winter wheat, contact our team.

The Bionature UK team is heading to two of the country’s biggest events for the agriculture industry this month – AgriScot and Croptec.

AgriScot is recognised as the UK’s number one farm business event and it takes place on Wednesday 21st November.

CropTec Show is the UK’s leading technical and knowledge exchange event for the arable farming industry, taking place on Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th November.

We’re really excited to be exhibiting at both events, you can find out more about each of them below.

AgriScot – 21/11/18

Bionature UK will be at Stand 237 of AgriScot which takes place at The Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh. Although AgriScot started as a specialist dairy event, the show now attracts a wide range of arable, pig, poulty and beef farmers as well. It really is an all-industry event with more than 240 trade stands.

Admission to AgricScot and parking are completely free and the event is spread out over four exhibition halls, with products, services and advice that covers every aspect of agriculture.

The Bionature UK team will be introducing farmers to our full range of smart liquid fertilisers with our experts on hand to explain how our products can help your crops.

For more information about AgriScot, click here.

CropTec Show – 28/11/18 – 29/11/18

Bionature will be at Stand 11, Hall 1 of CropTec 2018 which takes place at the East of England Showground in Peterborough.

We love visiting CropTec and exhibiting there is a great chance to meet growers of all produce from across the country. CropTec is a major event for all farmers, agronomists, business advisers, suppliers and scientists where we can discuss ways to improve what we do, share best practice and explore ways to improve efficiency and reduce costs.

The Bionature team will be on hand to help farmers improve the quality of their crops, while helping them to resist disease and withstand environmental stresses. We work hard to help growers get the best possible results for their crops through sustainable and profitable farming systems.

For more information about CropTec and to register for a free ticket, click here.