Lazy Roots?
For the most part, the Northern US has received adequate moisture and crops are off to a great start! However, with adequate moisture, roots do not need to “go find water” and as a result grow closer to the soil surface. This results in a shallow root system (also known as lazy roots), reducing the plant’s ability to access deeper soil nutrients and water, making it more vulnerable to lack of moisture later in season.
Four ways to ensure your crop has access to moisture later in season:
- Build roots to access available moisture: Grow deeper, stronger roots by adding a foliar such as ReLeaf to your herbicide.
- Build roots to access non-mobile nutrients: One of the other challenges is that mobile nutrients such as nitrogen, sulphur, boron, calcium, and magnesium are no longer mobile and can be stranded in the soil profile. It is critical that we develop a healthy root system to access these nutrients.
- Use a biostimulant: Be sure to include a biostimulant such as Convey or Cellburst in these applications. Our genetic expression research has shown that the biostimulants used in our ReLeaf formulations trigger the plant at the genetic level to deal with moisture stress.
- Get the crop ready for herbicide application: When the crop is stressed, the impact of a herbicide treatment on the crop is greater than when the crop is grown under more ideal conditions. Improving the health of the crop with the addition of ReLeaf to your herbicide application will help with “herbicide hangover.”
Address the Stress - Add ReLeaf to your herbicide
Applied at herbicide timing, ReLeaf is a complete NPK formulation to meet the early season nutritional demands of the crop. ReLeaf:
- Provides essential nutrients – Contains the proper nutrients in the right ratio to grow deeper, stronger roots to access moisture and nutrients from the soil.
- Consists of two novel biostimulants – Convey and Cellburst Technology to maximize the efficacy of the formulation and address abiotic stress.