Roger Garnsey, agronomist from Landmark Daniel Walker has been working hard over the last two years on trialing a range of new Loveland products in the Braidwood area. “The trials were designed to increase pasture and crop growth rates during our most critical period during winter”, said Roger.
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Loveland Agri Products was founded in the early 1970s and over time has become a major provider of cutting edge technology to US farming systems. It invests heavily in it's research and development team and operates multiple research sites across the US as well as owning a substantial research farm in Kentucky. “Landmark has a unique opportunity to tap into this wealth of information for the benefit of local producers”, said Roger.
Many of the Loveland products act to enhance plant performance. “They are often included during application of other products to improve the performance of a pesticide, to enhance nutrient uptake in the plant or to improve control of an insect pest”, said Roger. Of these products, Roger reported that Maximum N-Pact had been used extensively in the local area this year & producers were reporting promising results. “In response to this producer demand, Landmark Daniel Walker has been trialing Maximum-NPact with different product combinations in demonstration trials to record local effects”, said Roger.
Maximum N-Pact is a foliar applied Nitrogen source. It contains 24% Nitrogen in a form which is less prone to losses through leaching or gas formation and is highly compatible with many pesticides & soluble fertilisers.
“Maximum N-Pact offers increased uptake of applied Nitrogen, improved translocation through the plant and excellent crop safety. This culminates in improved plant yield at the end of the day”, Roger said.
When applied as demonstration strips to a mixed perennial pasture of phalaris, cocksfoot, perennial ryegrass & sub clover during the winter of 2013 and again in 2014, the response to Maximum N-Pact was very encouraging. Winter feed production increased by more than to 110% in 2013 and 2014 from the application of Maximum N-Pact combined with either Nutrisync M, Black label Zinc or gibberellic acid.
“We also observed responses to Maximum N-Pact in forage oats and Italian ryegrass, though the increases in dry matter were less than what we observed from the pasture trials”, Roger said.
Roger said “These local trials have produced some really encouraging results, particularly in response to Maximum-NPact”, though he stressed that further, replicated trials next year will be carried out by Landmark to add weight to these preliminary results.
“These preliminary trials demonstrate a cost effective way of dramatically increasing the production of winter feed from perennial pastures in the Braidwood area”, Roger said. “Further replicated trial work will be undertaken next autumn & spring to gain a better insight into the performance of these exciting Loveland products on perennial & short term ryegrass pastures in the Braidwood district”, Roger said.