Crop Aid Nutrition

[Hamloc]

Had a salesman at my door. Just curious if anyone has used their seed dressings, soil bio stimulants or foliar products? Do they work? Do they pay? Or are they foo foo dust?

[TASFarms]

I would use compost extracts. Way cheaper and way more biology,humics,fulvic. Can they tell you what’s actually in there.

[SASKFARMER]

2025 crop will be year three with crop aid soil.

Something is happening since we started soil is different now.

Seed treatment we have tried and maybe will in 2026.

But the main thing we will add is at time of fungicides their product.

Its changed something on our farm.

[furrowtickler]

We are in year 4 with crop aid .
Seeing big changes in our soil structure.

[furrowtickler]

I would use compost extracts. Way cheaper and way more biology,humics,fulvic. Can they tell you what’s actually in there.

Cost is an issue so I am very interested in what you and others are doing .
To be honest one draw back is crops grow very aggressively early and that can actually be a detriment when we run short of rain / soil moisture at critical seed filling stage . All great when the crop has enough moisture to fill but it also hits a wall faster when moisture runs out .
will be interesting to see if we can actually get the yield potential before running out of moisture at grain fill .

[makar]

Radiant i was talked in to buying last year would have been better spent on beer.

[furrowtickler]

Radiant i was talked in to buying last year would have been better spent on beer.

Most definitely some products are a waste of money depending on the year .
Most anything foliar is a waste of time and money if the problem is soil related. Learned the hard way

[TASFarms]

Cost is an issue so I am very interested in what you and others are doing .
To be honest one draw back is crops grow very aggressively early and that can actually be a detriment when we run short of rain / soil moisture at critical seed filling stage . All great when the crop has enough moisture to fill but it also hits a wall faster when moisture runs out .
will be interesting to see if we can actually get the yield potential before running out of moisture at grain fill .

I do see that there is 4 strains mycorrhizal fungi in crop aid seed. Mycorrhizal fungi aren’t multiplied in compost so adding alittle of that with compost extract would help. Plants use water a lot better once synthetic ferts are pulled out of the seed row.

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[furrowtickler]

We are finding out now that we need to reduce N
We were never huge users of N but even at moderate levels we have become excessive in tissue samples and still having high N carryover .
N/K ratios too far apart now

[shtferbrains]

N carryover is not a bad thing for most crops.
It gives you nitrogen through the whole root zone so you are less likely to stall with your nitrogen trapped in the dry zone if you run short of rain.

[Hamloc]

Most definitely some products are a waste of money depending on the year .
Most anything foliar is a waste of time and money if the problem is soil related. Learned the hard way

So Furrow you are using the Crop Aid Plus? At what rate and applied how many times per year? Pre seed? With herbicide? Fall? They say can be applied 1-3 times a year. You do a pile of trials any side by side?