How to Support, Stimulate and Protect your Crops, Starting the Moment you Plant.

Written By Adam Dickinson

A strong start is vital to ensure a successful harvest. The nutrition you provide to your plants, starting at planting, can have major plant health and consistency benefits in emergence which can support the plant through season long stressors. In this month’s blog, we’re breaking down how the nutrients and microbes found in TuneUp+ products support plants upon emergence and throughout the season.

Support, Stimulate and Protect

  • Support - Zinc encourages chlorophyll formation, providing an early-season energy source for plant to guarantee early season energy and carb flow into the plant.

  • Stimulate – Early in the season, a Methylotroph bacteria called Terrasym instigates and drives cell division and cell elongation, building a strong, robust structure and root system for the plant.

  • Protect – Trichoderma Harzianum is a fungi that naturally serves as a pathogen suppressant in the soil, protecting against soil-borne diseases that can damage plant health and performance.

 

Preservation of Live Microbes is Key to Unlocking Seed Potential

Incorporating live microbes to traditional micronutrient applications boosts the plant’s ability to absorb nutrients quickly and efficiently, driving early development. TuneUp+ contains several species of Bacillus, serving as solubilizers of phosphorus and potassium, creating greater permeability of those nutrients into the plant. In addition, Azotobacters take nitrogen gas from the atmosphere to create ammonia and ammonium, readily available to the plant in the soil.

To unlock the full potential and amazing benefits these live microbes can have on supporting strong emergence and plant health, it’s important for them to survive shipment and storage. TuneUp+ pails are specially designed to preserve live microbes, and growers can deploy them quickly with the press of a button, ready to add to the planter.

How Enzymes Provide Season-Long Benefits

Both TuneUp+ Corn and TuneUp+ Soybeans are available in an option “Powered by Ether.” Ether Enzyme Technology includes Lipase and Mannanase, two enzymes which foster microbial activity for long-term benefits throughout the growing season. Mannanase improves water and nutrient uptake by helping to break down exudates around plant roots. Lipase breaks down lipids into smaller units, which are easier for the plant to digest and make use of.

Uniform Emergence Leads to Season-Long Success

Research shows earlier emerging plants have a competitive advantage over later emerging plants throughout the growing season. In corn, for example, a two-day advantage in emergence can mean up to a 100 kernel difference on an ear. That’s a significant impact when it comes to overall yields and profitability. Uniformity in emergence, and getting good stand establishment, is critical to a great finish at harvest.

Proven Benefits

Testing across growing regions shows the big difference TuneUp+ is making for growers in yield and profitability. Here are just a few examples of what we’ve seen:

Adam Dickinson

Adam is Streamline Ag Product Manager.

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