Soil Assist - Benefits & Recommendations
- Soil Assist is an ideal soil and growth enhancer suitable for all types of agricultural crop growing, from dry land broad acre to vegetable and intensive horticulture of all plants, including vineyards and turf.
- Soil Assist can be considered a very cost effective addition to viable long term soil fertility programs, particularly in combination with current minimal disturbance and green manuring farming practice which may include minimal plant residue removal.
- The organic nitrogen supplied by the amino acids in Soil Assist will supply the nitrogen
- requirements of the soils micro fauna and flora as they digest the Celluloses, Lignin etc., preventing any draw-down of existing soil nitrogen levels.
- This increased soil fertility will assist in reducing additional fertilizer and input requirements, effectively increasing profitability.
- Considerable scientific research into pasture improvement, indicate applying humic products like Soil Assist to pastures, helping to improve palatability and digestion.
Recommendations
- Always thoroughly mix Soil Assist prior to use.
- Soil Assist can be applied in association with or mixed with other agricultural inputs, helping to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of these products. *
- Improves plants health, vigour and production, by increasing root biomass and stimulating leaf area growth and photosynthesis. Improves plant stress recovery factors and immune system.
- General application rate is 20 to 35 litres per hectare mixed with maximum amount of water allowable in boom spray. By fertigation method, inject into water flow at application rate of 35 litres per hectare divided by the number of calculated irrigation events for the growing season.
- For more intensive horticultural practices application rates can be increased to achieve desired results.
- Soil Assist has been proven to be successful in foliar fertilization methods, to assist overcoming plant stress, or to help improve protein or sugar levels prior to harvest. The suggested application rate is 5 to 10 litres per hectare mixed into 200m litres of water and applied as a leaf drench.
- Soil Assist included as an additive to hydroponic nutrient mixtures will increase plants nutrient uptake efficiencies. The suggested application rate is 3 litres per 1000 litres of solution.
*A jar test will indicate suitability with other inputs. The high mineral content in Soil
Assist causes an alkaline pH. Effervescence may be detected in combining with an input of low pH. Under normal circumstances this will settle down within approximately 15<>30 minutes without forming precipitates. Non-compatibility is indicated by precipitation, complete separation or thick emulsifying.
