Improving Adjuvants Spray Performance

Improving Adjuvants Spray Performance

Agricultural sprays consist of three stages: the tank, the air and the target. Various factors are present during each of these stages, and if they are not properly managed, they can reduce spray effectiveness, resulting in poor performance and wasted inputs. The use...
Kic-Starter for Stronger Roots

Kic-Starter for Stronger Roots

What is Kic-Starter? Kic-Starter is a water soluble 7:3:1 nutrient solution with chelated cation micro elements and auxins which can be used as a root stimulant or growth stimulant. When to use Kic-Starter? Kic-Starter is formulated to stimulate growth during the...
Why Foliar Feed?

Why Foliar Feed?

What is foliar feeding? Foliar feeding gives plants a direct boost of nutrients through their leaves. This happens via thousands of microscopic pores on leaf surfaces. These openings, called stomata (Greek: stoma, meaning “mouth”), are located primarily on the...
ColourUp on Apples

ColourUp on Apples

Farming with apples is one thing, but farming with apple varieties of colour increases the challenge of producing a higher percentage of superior class apples (with the accompanying higher remuneration), primarily based on colour development. It is not uncommon for...
Adjuvants Trial on Citrus

Adjuvants Trial on Citrus

How do different adjuvants react at different spray volumes when applied with either Spirotetramat or Pyriproxyfen containing insecticides for the control of California red scale on citrus? Introduction It has been well documented that the South African citrus...
Tomato Cultivar Fertigation Program

Tomato Cultivar Fertigation Program

A tomato cultivar fertigation program and foliar spray program combined Hygrotech and Miller products during the production of greenhouse tomatoes in the Ermelo district in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. The combined treatments were allocated to a greenhouse...