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Irrigation booms give a targeted application that wastes less in driſt
standard blight spray, and left an adjacent block untreated, on a well-drained sandy loam area of one of our farms near North Wal- sham,” he says. ICL technical sales manag-
er Richard Collins says the tri- als were monitored with a mois- ture probe and weather station to measure rainfall and irrigation levels – as well as to detect wa- ter uptake by the crop. The data collated clearly showed that water was able to penetrate deeper into the soil treated with H2Flo and was more readily available to the plants over the growing season. But the block without the wetting agent maintained a constant moisture level with minimal plant uptake, which would decrease even fur- ther if dry conditions continued. “The final test digs showed
that the treated site yielded at a higher level than the untreated site, with an increase of 11 tonnes from 61.45 t/ha to 72.63 t/ha.
Profit potential Dr Collins goes on to explain the potential for extra profit from the greater yield. “Potato prices vary, but if you work on an av- erage price of £100/t, this extra yield would bring in an addition- al £1,100/ha for the farmer, which significantly outweighs the prod- uct and application costs.
Supporting trials
“On top of these benefits further testing has proven that H2Flo can reduce the amount of water appli- cations by 25%, so saving on wa- ter and pumping costs.” With this in mind, and the
pleasing results from his own trial, Mr Papworth plans to put the product to the test again this season, trying it out on a consid- erably larger area with multiple varieties of potato.
“Given the significant cost to purchase and apply water, at
A better spread of water can avoid drought stress in dry conditions
roughly £99/hectare metre, I’m really interested to test the wa- ter saving benefits in this sea- son’s trials. “We use an average of 0.67 hec- tare metres of water in a normal year, which costs us in the region
of £8,600, so any saving would be a huge benefit to us and the en- vironment,” says Mr Papworth. For further information, please visit
https://icl-sf.com/uk-en/ or contact the ICL team on 01473 237111.
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