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Making sure young seedlings aren’t limited by access to nutrients is one of the keys to good early crop development. CPM explores the role nutritional seed treatments can play. If it’s not measured, then it can’t be managed. By Rob Jones Crop nutrition is becoming an increasingly important focus for agronomists and growers for a number of reasons – including plateaued yields, the revocation of essential crop protection products and more extreme seasons, as well as economic challenges and greater environmental pressures. It’s recognised that there’s a potential gap in supplying the nutrition required by plants during their early growth stages once the mother seed is exhausted, but the crop canopy still isn’t advanced enough to be able to fully intercept a foliar spray, says Agrii research and northern development manager Jim Carswell. “Improving crop health and productivity in a more environmentally sustainable way can be achieved by using an optimised loading of essential trace elements, delivered as a seed treatment. This can help to redress this balance by filling the hunger gap – covering the period from the seed germinating to the three-leaf stage of the crop, which is about four to six weeks,” he says. “Getting the…
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