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Alpine’s starter fertilizer can help plants absorb nutrients faster

Alpine’s starter fertilizer can help plants absorb nutrients faster

Alpine can add extra nutrients to their fertilizers to meet soil and crop needs

By Farms.com

Faster nutrient absorption, low salt concentrations and custom nutrient additions are part of Alpine’s fertilizer programs to help farmers grow better crops.

Plants can absorb the nutrients in Alpine’s G24 liquid fertilizer immediately, according to Ken Brett, Eastern Canada Sales Manager with Alpine. This quick uptake is thanks to the fact that 80 per cent of the phosphate in the fertilizer is present in the orthophosphate form.

“High orthophosphate is important because that’s the form of phosphate the roots absorb out of the soil,” he explained. “There’s a lot of fertilizers on the market that have polyphosphate and, unfortunately, that takes three to four weeks to convert in soil to a usable form.”

Alpine’s liquid fertilizers are also low in salt, which is another important consideration for plant health.

“Too much salt can actually burn the roots back a little bit,” Brett said. “A real salt concentration in the root zone can (also) suck up water and not make it available to the crop.”

And if producers are looking to add nutrients to their fertilizer mix to meet soil and crop requirements, Alpine is able to accommodate those needs.

“We can add (nutrients) on the farm or right at our Alpine plant,” Brett said. “Usually we add micronutrients, (with) zinc being the most common one (for) corn.”

The addition of zinc to Alpine’s wheat fertilizer also provides “a good payback,” he said.


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The specialists in arable farming and grassland combine their experience to autonomously map the tasks of the farmer and thus counteract the labor shortage. The biggest innovation in this generation of the autonomous tractor, the so-called “Verfahrenstechnische Einheit VTE (process engineering unit)”, is the additional mounting space in the front area. This allows a weight, a mower or a front packer to be attached as required.

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