4. Phosphorus
• Phosphorus is one of the major plant nutrients in
the soil
• Phosphorus is essential for cell division and
development of the growing tip of the plant
• For this reason, phosphorus is VITAL for
seedlings and young plants
10. Current Challenges with Phos Nutrition
# 1 – Early season P availability can be limited
# 2 – Phosphorus is relatively immobile in the soil
# 3 – Phosphorus is easily tied-up
11. # 1 – Early season P availability can be limited
• Planting into cool, wet soils
limits nutrient availability
• When soils are cool and wet,
accessing essential nutrients
can be difficult for young
plants
12. #2 – Immobility is a challenge
• Phosphorus is relatively immobile in the soil
• Nutrient tends to stay where it is placed
13. #3 - Availability is a challenge
Phosphorous is easily tied-up in the soil and quickly becomes unavailable and
early phosphorus deficiency can occur
15. Introducing….
• A new phosphorus-based fertilizer from the makers
of Wolf Trax Innovative Nutrients
• Utilizing DDP technology
• Designed for better delivery of early-season nutrition
• Applied at or prior to planting
17. CropStart Nutrient Package
The CropStart Nutrient Package is a custom
blend of:
• P2O5 (25%)
• Zinc (20%)
• Manganese (5%)
• Nitrogen (4%)
These nutrients are known to be needed by
young seedlings, but are difficult to access early
in the season or in cold, wet soils
18. EvenCoat Technology
• Allows nutrient to thoroughly and evenly coat each
prill of dry fertilizer in a blend
• Once applied, Nu-Trax P+ will not come off during
transport or handling
• Even, consistent blends and blanket-like
distribution across the field
19. • Nu-Trax P+ is formulated as fine
powder that is easily coated onto
dry fertilizer blends at your fertilizer
dealer
EvenCoat Technology
21. Benefit of EvenCoat Technology
• When every granule of dry fertilizer is coated with Nu-Trax P+, young
plants can easily access the phosphorus, zinc and other nutrients
essential for early-season growth
• Up to 4 or 5 times more points of interception for P and Zn
22. PlantActiv Formulation
• Nu-Trax P+ is chemically and physically
designed for better micronutrient availability
• Formulated as a fine powder, the particle
size is ideal for plant uptake
• As a result, nutrients get into the plant
quicker
23. Nu-Trax P+ Quick Facts
Nu-Trax P+ provides an ideal blend of P, Zn, Mn and N –
nutrients essential for optimal early growth
Nu-Trax P+ is easily coated onto dry fertilizer blends, for
blanket-like distribution and more points of interception for
young crops
Physically and chemically designed – the Nu-Trax P+
particle size is optimum for plant uptake
25. Recommended Rates
• 2 lbs/ac coated onto a dry fertilizer blend
• Rate based on ~ 200-225 lbs of granular fertilizer
• Replicated field trials and grower-run trials validate
the recommended rate
• Should be applied at or prior to planting
• This ensures better crop use and less loss to the
environment
45. Wheat - Maryland
• Ron Mulford (retired researcher)
conducted study in no-till/min till
wheat
• Nu-Trax P+ applied at 2.1 lb/ac
• Harvested July 2014
85
86
87
88
89
90
Control Nu-Trax P+
Yield(bu/ac)
Impact of Nu-Trax P+ on Wheat Yield
+2.8 bu
46. • Just 2 lb/ac of Nu-Trax P+ fertilizer puts YOU in
charge of delivering the nutrition your crops need for
a strong start!
48. Over-application and run-off of P is a
challenge
• Growers need to find a better
way to use P fertilizer
• Increasing regulation around
the world
49. 4R Nutrient Stewardship
• An important aspect of utilizing 4R Nutrient Management on a
farm is that there is consideration for economic, social and
environmental goals
56. 2
7
12
17
22
NK + 2 lbs/ac Nu-Trax P+ NK + 35 lbs/ac P2O5 UTC
19 18 19
Olsen P
How much P left in soil the fall after cropping
with Nu-Trax P+ vs MAP?
57. How much P left in soil the fall after cropping
with Nu-Trax P+ vs MAP?
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
NK + 2 lbs/ac Nu-Trax P+ NK + 35 lbs/ac P2O5 UTC
613 592
645
Total Soil P - EPA
59. Something to think about…
• Nu-Trax P+ is great tool for EARLY season nutrition
• Great fit for growers planting wheat this fall
• Strong root system is important
• Spring application opportunity for corn and soybean
growers
• Especially important in cool, wet soils
• Management tool for areas with P regulations
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Plants have a big appetite for phos early
Growers know that phosphorous is important in plant growth and development, but few understand how hungry plants are for P early on
A plants’ appetite for phosphorus in the first 28 days of growth is huge.
Research has shown that the flux of phos into young plants is greatest from emergence to 28 days after planting. (If a plant was in a situation in which it had an unlimited amount of plant-available phosphorus it would gobble it up quickly in order to satisfy it’s huge appetite for phos within the first 28 days. However, that’s not normally the case and early season hunger can occur).
So, we know with that plants are very hungry for phos early in the season…..
Not getting enough phosphorous to the crop early in the season can have a dramatic impact on overall plant growth and yield potential.
In the chart you see here - researchers tested the impact of holding back P fertilizer for a 4-week period. What they found was that the “hold back” had a much bigger impact on the crop when it was the first four weeks of growth, vs. 4 weeks later on in the season.
This means that the biggest impact P has on the crop – happens early in the season
More tillers for the plants that only HAD early season P vs. the plants that only HAD later season P.
This is the same trial, but we see the difference with respect to root growth. Clearly there is a greater penalty in root growth when there P is removed early in the season, vs. later in the season.
There are basically three key things that all growers should know about phosphorous – to help understand the challenges with the current fertilizers available
These are:
1) Plants have a big appetite for phos early
2) Phos is not mobile in the soil
3) Phos can be tied up in the soil – and not available to this year’s crop.
As farms become larger and growers become busier, seeding earlier into cool and wet soils becomes necessary
2) Phos is not mobile in the soil
In fact, the amount of movement of P from the granule into the soil is only roughly 1/10 of an inch – and then the plant root needs to grow in order to reach more.
Which you can see here – in this diagram.
What we know:
Plants are very hungry for phos early
But phos doesn’t move in the soil so a young plant might have a hard time accessing the phos. Young roots need to grow and hunt for more phos. The phos doesn’t MOVE to the seedling.
So, essentially, a young and hungry plant may have a difficult time getting the phos nutrition it needs.
****Important to Mention that even HARDER for plants to grow out in COLD and WET Soils**** something that is increasingly becoming the norm farms are getting larger and seeding dates are constantly being pushed.
3) Phos can be tied up in the soil – and not available to this year’s crop
When traditional granular phosphorus is applied to the soil and the granules dissolve, the phosphorus begins to react with the soil, insoluble complexes with Fe Ca or other soil elements.
These reactions reduce the availability of phosphorus for plant uptake. In the year of application, up to 80% of the phosphorus that producers apply is unavailable to their crops.
This lack of plant available phosphorous may impact crop performance and yields.
This means that growers may not be getting the value for their fertilizer dollar that they expect – and can have implications environmentally as well.
What we know:
Plants are very hungry for phos early
But phos doesn’t move in the soil so a young plant might have a hard time accessing the phos. Young roots need to grow and hunt for more phos. The phos doesn’t MOVE to the seedling.
PLUS
- Phos can be tied up in the soil, so even if a young plant root was able to find phosphorus, it may not be plant available. Making early season nutrition that much harder!
We are excited to announce a new product will be available to growers this year.
For the last several years, we’ve been working on a new fertilizer that is phosphorous based – and designed from the ground up to do a better job of delivering early season nutrition to crops.
It has taken us some time to perfect the formulation, and we are excited to offer Nu-Trax P+ to dealers and growers this fall.
Based on the Wolf Trax DDP platform, Nu-Trax P+ is designed to help growers manage phosphorous nutrition, and deliver the right balance of Phosphorous, Zinc and other important nutrients to the crop early – when it needs it most.
Applied at, or just prior to planting, Nu-Trax P+ essentially does a better job of delivering early-season nutrition to the crop.
It’s a real game changer for growers and for the industry.
Nu-Trax P+ incorporates three important technologies that were developed by Wolf Trax –
CropStart Nutrient Package
PlantActiv Formulation
patented EvenCoat Technology
They all work together to do a better job of delivering early nutrition to the crop – compared to granular fertilizers alone.
The Crop Start Nutrient Package is a scientifically derived ratio of phosphorus, zinc and manganese needed by young plants to get off to a great start.
Our Research and Development Team fine-tuned the formulation over several years of testing and evaluation to find the combination of nutrients that produced the best results for plants in a broad range of soils, and growing conditions
25% P2O5
20% Zinc
5% Mn
4% N
So not only does Nu-Trax P+ offer early access to phosphorous, it offers access other nutrients also known to be essential for early season growth. It’s this special blend that makes Nu-Trax P+ work.
If we were to do a coating demo:
The way it works, is that a farmer would request Nu-Trax P+ in his or her fertilizer blend.
The retailer adds the powder product into their fertilizer blender
The powder adheres to each and every prill of dry fertilizer that is in the blend through electrostatic adhesion
This is the same patented technology featured in all of the Wolf Trax brand DDP nutrients and once it’s attached to the prill, it won’t come off.
So now every prill of this fertilizer that you spread or band in your field will have a bit of phosphorous, zinc and manganese on it.
STEVEN – We need to stress that the product itself is a fine powder that is easily coated onto a fertilizer prill.
Here is a real life product demonstration that is a great visual example of the EvenCoat Technology. Pictured Here is Urea. Quickly, what we did was we took 5 ton of untreated Urea and put it trough a typical mixer with just 20 lbs of our Iron DDP product then augured it through a tender truck back into the Urea bin. Clearly, we achieved consistent, even coverage.
What you end up with is even, blanket-like distribution of Nu-Trax P+ in the field.
I have a great illustration for your viewers – which does a good job of showing how the Nu-Trax P+ approach compares to traditional granular phosphate fertilizers.
With traditional MAP or DAP applied at 70 lbs/acre, for example you may have 4 – 5 granules within the rooting depth of your average corn seedling at V2
With the Nu-Trax approach, coating the product onto hundreds of lbs of dry granular N, K and S per acre – you get 20 – 30 points of interception, or approximately a 5 fold increase in access points.
And all those additional feeding spots for the plant help with the challenges we talked about with roots trying to find phosphorus in the soil…
This means for the plant is that the nutrients needed early on in the season are easier to access because there are so many more points of interception with every prill being coated.
This means closer proximity to plant roots.
Because it is so effective, only a low rate of NuTrax P+ is needed to evenly coat the granules.
Nu-Trax P+ also features the PlantActiv Formulation, which means it is chemically and physically designed for better and earlier plant availability.
It’s formulated as a fine powder, as you can see here, and the particle size is optimal for plant uptake.
As a result, nutrients get into the plant more quickly.
The Crop Start Nutrient Package is a scientifically derived ratio of phosphorus, zinc and manganese needed by young plants to get off to a great start.
Our Research and Development Team fine-tuned the formulation over several years of testing and evaluation to find the combination of nutrients that produced the best results for plants in a broad range of soils, and growing conditions
25% P2O5
20% Zinc
5% Mn
4% N
So not only does Nu-Trax P+ offer early access to phosphorous, it offers access other nutrients also known to be essential for early season growth. It’s this special blend that makes Nu-Trax P+ work.
So, if you are planting in the fall (winter wheat) than Nu-Trax P+ can be used. (However we don’t recommend any fall fertilizer application as it doesn’t coincide with the 4 Rs of nutrient stewardship)
The 2lbs/ac rate
Coating capacity varies, more surface area will result in higher coating rates
2 lbs/ac is the most we can coat onto about 200lbs/ac of dry fertilizer
Seen the most success with this rate
We have tested the product over a variety of rates on soils all over North America and the EU and that seems to be the ideal rate for best uptake and utilization
Feed the crop and not the streams…
Coincides with the 4Rs of nutrient stewardship
1 % of fertilizer blend
Over 80 Head to Heads being conducted in 2014
As discerned at tuber initiation a few weeks back the NTP set has more tubers. At todays observation, this still seems to be apparent. Tubers in both sides are sizing well. I think this should be a great crop.
Reds in kern county are notorious for erwinia- I'm already seeing presence of the disease today in the field. Its a pungent bacteria disease that turns the tubers to complete mush.
Hopefully the WT side will have less incident of disease & better packout/ quality. Its already in the low 90's F. it is unseasonably very warm for april with severe drought conditions.
Trial is still in progress, all that we can share, no pictures yet
Nu-Trax P+ is a good fit for the 4R initiative and can play a part in the reduction of P over application
In this specific trial, the growers chose to replace their phos COMPLETELY with Nu-Trax P+.
The reason they did that, was because their soil test showed that the Olsen P in his soil was quite so they decided that replace their P with Nu-Trax P+ was a good option for them.
So, we can see that with the canola, the yield results were a tie…which is a win in this situation because the cost/ac was lower with the Nu-Trax P+ treatment than with granular phos. In this tie situation, the ROI was better with Nu-Trax P+ than without.
WHAT ABOUT SOIL MINING
Research that the actual drawn down of Olsen P is much SLOWER than we think
Show the slide.
ENVIRONMENTAL Benefits in this situation (less Phos, less run-off)….EnviroPlus Benefit
Demonstrated BETTER early season growth than traditional granular phos
- Untreated check
Longer, more developed roots…than phos.
Well, aren’t you mining the soil (Slower Draw Down….)
Point is that there are other options in which we can use Nu-Trax P+.
As a dealer you can support your growers who all have various types of fertility programs.
