Archive for March 31st, 2010

Growing with Aggrand

March 31, 2010
Posted by Matthew King

A farmer and his dad raise beef cattle on there farm and grow their own hay and oats to feed the herd. Last year was the first time they used AGGRAND Natural Liquid Fertilizer instead of their usual 16-16-16 and 46-0-0 chemical fertilizers on their oats and hay crops.

Altogether, their planted about 140 acres with oats and hay. They fertilized the fields in early spring, 1.5 gallons of AGGRAND 4-3-3 natural fertilizer mixed in 33 gallons of water per acre. The plants came up slowly. By May they started to perk up, they didn’t have much spring rain last year.

In late May, a hard rain fell that knocked down the plants. They didn’t think the oat crop would come up, but it did come up and they gave it a second shot of AGGRAND. In the second round of fertilization they applied one gallon of AGGRAND Natural Fertilizer 4-3-3 and one quart of AGGRAND Natural Kelp and Sulfate of Potash per acre. It was mostly dry after that, they pretty much grew that crop with that one rain.

At harvest time, the plants were almost more heads than stems. They got more than they usually get on a good year.

It was some of the heaviest oats we ever grew seedwise. They could tell when they combined it that it had a lot more weight.

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