So here is another follow-up to a blog about crop comparisons. This was from a May 8 post (Desert Fruit. No Extra Salt Needed) from SE California, just West of Yuma, AZ. This was about a visit with SAM Carlos to a field of cantaloupes where a fertilizer comparison was being conducted. This visit was a couple weeks before harvest. To re-cap, Carlos and Retail Partner Jeramie with RNM Agriturf set up a fertilizer comparison in a field of melons. This field was pretty rough with a pH >8 and high soil test sodium (>1000 ppm and 20% base saturation). Anyway, the grower wouldn't tell them what his normal program was. He just gave them a soil test and a target cost per acre. With help from agronomist JW, they came up with a fertilizer program that was applied through drip irrigation.
I showed these pictures in the original blog post from either side of that road on the left. The pictures show the yields and the fertilizer programs. The AgroLiquid program was more nutritionally balanced and it payed off with a yield that was almost 1.25 TONS/A higher than the growers program (a box of melons is 30 lb.). So as I've said many times before, AgroLiquid is a superior nutrition program for any situation, but especially so in adverse conditions like high pH and sodium.
This is because of carbon encapsulation of phosphorus, which protects from tie-up losses and enables extended release and feeding. There is also a more direct application of nutrient needs like micronutrients and calcium. Anyway, performance was proven again. Hopefully I will be able to obtain more results from earlier field comparisons shown here in the Land of Liquid.
