Nutrition Farming® Guidelines

Potatoes

With the aim to increase soil fertility, plant resilience and plant brix (complex carbohydrates and mineral content), potato farmers can implement Nutrition Farming® strategies simply by including key products into their current programs.

Potatoes - NTS Fertiliser Guide

With the aim to increase soil fertility, plant resilience and plant brix (complex carbohydrates and mineral content), potato farmers can implement Nutrition Farming® strategies simply by including key products into their current programs.

Crop Phase Key Nutritional Requirements Suggested Products
Soil Preparation At least 8 weeks prior to planting, determine soil nutrient requirements by taking a soil test. Broadcast your specifically designed Prescription Blend™ 4 – 6 weeks prior to planting. Balancing the minerals in your soil will help to improve soil structure and increase general fertility. NTS Soil Therapy
Stimulate beneficial soil biology to restore balance in soils previously affected by nematodes. Biological Root Health Recipe
Planting If a granular planting or side-dress blend is normally applied, include NTS Soluble Humate Granules™ at 5% of the blend, (up to a maximum rate of 20 kg/ha), to help buffer and stabilise phosphorus and/or nitrogen inputs. Alternatively, use NTS Liquid Humus™ or DIY Liquid Humic Acid in the first fertigation.

NTS Soluble Humate Granules

NTS Liquid Humus or DIY Liquid Humus Acid

Sprout Development Mycorrhizal (VAM or AM) and Trichoderma fungi enhance nutrient delivery and root-zone health.

Nutri-Life Platform®

NTS Liquid Humus™ or

DIY Liquid Humic Acid

Vegetative Growth – Tuber Initiation Maintain broad-spectrum nutrition, including NPK, calcium, magnesium and trace elements, to ensure optimum productivity and quality.

Triple Ten™

Nutri-Key Shuttle Seven™

Cloak™ Spray Oil 1 or 2 applications

Trio (CMB) Foliar™

Cloak™ Spray Oil 1 or 2 applications

If side-dressing N, always include a source of carbon to improve efficiency, prevent leaching, and reduce carbon burnout. Include NTS Soluble Humate Granules™ at 5% of the granular blend, (up to a maximum rate of 20 kg/ha), to help buffer and stabilise fast-release nitrogen inputs. Alternatively, use NTS Liquid Humus™ or DIY Humic acid with fertigations of soluble urea.

NTS Soluble Humate Granules

NTS Liquid Humus or

DIY Liquid Humic Acid

Ensure the potatoes have direct access to calcium and silicon to optimise quality and crop resilience. Farm Saver® Calcium Fulvate Dia-Life Organic™ Every 2 weeks
Leaf testing gives you fingertip control of inputs to fine-tune your crop nutrition program. NTS Plant Therapy
Bulking Phosphorus and potassium should be kept up to maintain the growth of the tubers while calcium will build crop resilience. Phos-Force™ K-Rich™ Cloak™ Spray Oil 1 or 2 applications

Foliar Spray Fertigation Please refer to Product Information Sheets for application rates.

Nutrition Farming® is the future of sustainable crop production.

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