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Early Season Citrus Nutrition

Agricultural, Benefits of Zinc, Bloom, Citrus, Foliar Nutrients

As the days lengthen and temperatures warm, citrus trees are preparing for a spring flush and bloom. On the West Coast, citrus growers are also preparing foliar applications of Phosphate and often need to add secondary and micronutrients according to tissue samples....

Molybdenum and Nitrogen Management

Agricultural, Bloom, Boron, Fertilizers, Foliar Nutrients, Tree Fruit

As growers focus on achieving goals of Nitrogen Management Plans, they are looking carefully at how plants best utilize Nitrogen. Molybdenum may be as essential to effective Nitrogen management as it is to Nitrogen utilization in plants. Molybdenum is an essential...

Nutrient Advice for the Prevention of Wine Grape Shatter

Agricultural, Benefits of Zinc, Bloom, Foliar Nutrients, Harvest, Wine Grapes, Zinc

With bud break getting underway in wine grapes across California, and soon to follow in the Pacific Northwest, our PCA and Territory Sales Manager Chris Rhoades has nutrient advice to help reduce wine grape shatter. Chris has been in vineyards over the past few weeks...

TECH-GRO MIRA-CAL vs. Hydrated Lime

Agricultural, Bloom, Fertilizers, Foliar Nutrients, Stone Fruit, Tree Fruit, Tree Nuts, Wine Grapes

Performance is More Than a Derived From Statement A question we often get from field men and growers, is how our TECH-GRO® MIRA-CAL differs from hydrated lime. MIRA-CAL is after all, derived from hydrated lime. We take our raw ingredients, put them through a chemical...

Almonds treated with TECH-FLO Outsize Competition

Agricultural, Bloom, Foliar Nutrients, Freeze Protection, Harvest, Tree Nuts

Growers know that bigger nuts mean a bigger payday, but can you really expect foliar nutrients to make a noticeable difference in yield? When we approached an Almond grower in Gustine, CA about comparing his current foliar program against ours he didn’t expect to see...

Almond Post Harvest Nutrition

Agricultural, Benefits of Zinc, Bloom, Boric Acid, Boron, Drought Protection, Fertilizers, Foliar Nutrients, Freeze Protection, Harvest, Tree Nuts, Zinc

Following the growing season, replenishing nutrients to store as carbohydrates for uniform bud-set next season is imperative. As Brent Holtz, county director and pomology advisor, wrote in Western Farm Press, “Plant nutrient levels are important, especially when...

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