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These potatoes are grown on some black fen soil, good soil for the job. The farmer has applied NHCaDelta at a rate of 2 Lts per ha with every blight spay and you can see from the sample that whilst untreated is a very fine sample the treated are a more even size and larger.

The untreated sample of Markies are very good and number of tubers is impressive, however there is a variety of sizes an uniformaty is less good than the treated sample pictured below.

The treated Markies have recieved 2 ltrs per ha with every blight spray and have now more uniformed size and shape

These Delta treated Piper had the same yield dig of 3 meter run and produced 19.15 t/ac yield which is a 2.3 tonne increase over untreated. This crop has received between 2 and 3 litres per ha per application of the blight spray. The crop is growing well and will continue to bulk.

Untreated Piper. We took a yield dig of 3 metre from a full ron of crop, no misses in the run and the untreated sample seen here produced a yield of 17.7t/ha

Worlaby Farms near Horncastle in Lincolnshire broke the UK wheat yield record last year (2013) by using our Delta foliar nitrogen fertilizer and 1-4-ALL trace element foliar product. This year the drive is on to break more records across different crops and the scene is set with crops looking very good.

This review is a brief look at crops as they stand in the middle of March 2014 and show the wheat and barley looking very well.

There is very low levels of disease and no evidence of nutritional deficiencies in cereal crops more over the rooting and crop frame is exceptional.

Mick Nundy prepared two trays of brassica plugs for the two day, 2012 Brassica event, held at Kirton Holme just off the A52 near Boston on the 10th and 11th October.

One of the trays received a standard fertilizer treatment of 1 x 03:01:05 @ 200:1 solution and two applications of 03:01:05 @ 100:1 solution. The treated tray had 1 x 03:01:05 @ 200:1 solution and 2 applications of NHCaDelta @ 100:1 solution.

This is a picture of the treated plugs. The low levels of NHCa Delta have produced the broader thicker leaf with good dark colour. The plugs are robust and stems have good stiffness. there is no discolouration in the leaf and no apparent deficiencies.

This is a picture of the untreated tray of plugs. The leaves are smaller and are suffering with leaf curl and tip burn, there is also some discolouration within the leaf. The lack of calcium may be the contributory factor to the poorer condition of these plugs. When handled they are less robust than those treated with NHCaDelta.

This is a picture of the treated Plugs. The Delta Ca treated tray has produced a very healthy plant with larger leaf area and a thicker leaf. There is no discolouration the plugs have a robust feel to them when handled. The calcium in NHCaDelta has contributed to the overall health status of the plant.

The treated plugs are those on the left hand side and clearly appear much healthier than those on the right which have received a normal program of fertilizer.
NHCaDelta has provided the crop with nitrogen and Calcium and when watered the nitrogen is not washed out of the plug as would be the case with other nitrogen’s.
Although it is hard to see, there is a degree of inter-vein discolouration which would suggest the plant is suffering some form of stress whether abiotic or biotic. Certainly not such stress exists with the Delta treated plugs.

This is a crop w barley at Gainsborough, picture taken on 29th January 2013 after snow had melted, the farmer called me and said he was very impressed and would like to use the Delta and 1-4-ALL on his wheat this year.

He has rarely seen a crop look so well on this land which is sandy to pure sand, this barley crop had received 4L/Ha of Delta and 2L/Ha of 1-4-ALL applied in the autumn and nothing else, it was applied in the autumn because the crop looked so poor going into winter.

Tillering is great, colour is very good, roots are exceptional and general appearance when you consider it was under snow three days ago is brilliant. I have recommended he go on as soon as he can with as little as 2L/ha of Delta and 2L/ha of 1-4-All. This will keep the green affect, and keep stimulating roots.

If you can travel then the crops at these better temperatures will respond. The early influence of Delta on roots should not be underestimated.

After snow melted over the weekend the winter barley which did not look great in the Autumn revealed its self. Good colour, good tillering and given such difficult condition last autumn and over winter the crop looks really well.

This Crop has been treated with 4L/ha of NHCaDelta and 2L/ha of 1-4-ALL applied in Autunm 2012 (this was applied because the crop did not look well).

Our Crop scientist working out of Lincoln university stated that he had not seen such and good crop in such an advanced state.

The first application went on early March at a rate of 2.5L/ha NHCaDelta and 2L/ha of 1-4-ALL.
The second application of 2L/ha of NHCaDelta and 2L/ha of 1-4-ALL went on early April.

These are very low levels of treatments but this is keeping the crop very healthy and growing well. Mr Forrington (Snr) explained that in all his time he has never known this field not show extreme signs of manganese deficiency. “Often the crop will die from this disorder and despite numerous applications of manganese the crops always suffer, but not this year”, he explained!

Another view of a Delta and 1-4-ALL treated crop taken on the 19th April 2013.
Most inspiring is that remarkable lack of manganese deficiency which normally manifest itself in the this field.