Finish Strong with GrainMaker.
The GrainMaker® family of products help your crop finish strong and resist late-season diseases to maximize yield at harvest. Complete your crop nutrient management program with finisher that gives your corn and soybeans a final boost. GrainMaker® provides growth promoting rhizobacteria to enhance the division of cells as well as leaf and root growth. For corn, the added sugar promotes pollen tube growth and fertilization to full out each ear of corn. Soybeans also receive boron and sugar to move nutrients throughout the plant, retain flowers and fill pods.
Corn Finisher: a tassel applied nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium and boron nutrient blend.
Soy Finisher: a nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, boron and manganese nutrient blend applied during growth stages R1-R5.
Applying a PCT | Sunrise® finisher in the last stages of growth gives your crop the additional nutrition they need to develop to their full potential and also increase tolerances to common foliar diseases. GrainMaker finishers from PCT | Sunrise are compatible with fungicides and insecticides to make application easy and reduce your trips across the field. Contact your PCT | Sunrise team to finish strong with GrainMaker.
A Burst of Micro-Nutrition with NutraBurstGive your crops a burst of micro-nutrition with NutraBurst. The NutraBurst® product family is made up of individual micronutrients that supply plants needed nutrition throughout the growing season. They promote healthy development in a variety of crops including corn, soybeans, wheat, alfalfa, vegetables and tomatoes. NutraBurst® blends include copper, boron, manganese, zinc, sugar, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and sulfur. We use highly available sources of these micronutrients to formulate our products and double chelate them to ensure efficient plant uptake no matter the soil or water pH.
Boron 7%: double chelated 7% Boron micronutrient.
Boron 10%: double chelated 10% Boron micronutrient.
Copper 5%: double chelated 5% Copper micronutrient.
Manganese 5% II: double chelated 5% Manganese micronutrient.
Micro-N III: early nitrogen fertilization with micronutrients.
MicroMix: a liquid dual-chelated micronutrient fertilizer solution with Boric Acid, Copper, Manganese, and Zinc.
SugarShot AG: foliar applied unpasteurized sugar and added micronutrients including boron and calcium to help with flower and pod retention in soybeans and silk tube elongation during corn pollination.
SugarShot ST: seed applied unpasteurized sugar and added calcium to help build cell walls and stimulate root and leaf development.
SuperBlue: a lower-salt 100% urea based liquid nitrogen fertilizer with sulfur for general use.
Zinc 9%: a double chelated 9% Zinc micronutrient.
Citric Zinc 9%: a liquid micronutrient fertilizer solution with zinc citrate.
Citric Manganese 5%: a liquid micronutrient fertilizer solution with manganese citrate.
These micronutrients blend well with crop protection products and can be applied throughout the growing season, in-furrow or as a top or side dressing. Local PCT experts can help you determine the right product and application method to achieve results. Contact your PCT | Sunrise team to give your crops a burst of micro-nutrition with NutraBurst.
Feed and Nourish Your Crop with FolrFeedFeed and nourish your crop with FolrFeed. Our FolrFeed® product line offers mid-season solutions for correcting nutrient deficiencies that are visible and invisible in corn, soybeans, alfalfa and vegetables. Foliars allow for immediate uptake of nutrients independent of soil pH or other environmental factors.
Corn Foliar LITE II: foliar-fed nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium with double chelated micronutrients (boron, manganese and zinc) and plant growth regulators.
Corn Foliar EXTRA: double the amount of foliar-fed nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium with double chelated micronutrients (boron, manganese and zinc) and plant growth regulators.
Corn Foliar ZAMBI II: a liquid foliar fertilizer with double chelated zinc, manganese, and boron, designed to increase the number of rows around corn ears.
FoliarMix Zn: foliar-fed nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium with double chelated micronutrients and plant growth regulators plus double chelated Zinc.
Soy Foliar BAM II: a liquid foliar fertilizer with double chelated boron and manganese.
Soy Foliar LITE II: foliar-fed nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium with double chelated micronutrients (boron and manganese) and plant growth regulators.
Soy Foliar EXTRA II: double the amount of foliar-fed nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium with double chelated micronutrients (boron and manganese) and plant growth regulators.
SWEET UREA LIQUOR: a liquid plant nutrient mixture of nitrogen and sugar.
Our FolrFeed blends are convenient to use and apply. They can be mixed with other products and are highly compatible with most tank mix partners. Local experts stand behind these products and their performance. Contact the PCT | Sunrise team today for additional information about Folrfeed products and take the next step to feed and nourish your crop with FolrFeed.
Soybeans and PotassiumPotassium’s primary plant function is to regulate the direction of water flow between cells and different plant tissues. The xylem and the phloem, which is the plants “plumbing,” relies on potassium to direct its direction of flow. The xylem moves water and nutrients upward and outward while the phloem moves sugars and water downward toward roots. Just as in your home plumbing, higher pressure in one plant region (like your water main) will push sap towards areas of lower pressure (like an open faucet)
Leaves act as solar panels that are switched on during the day. Just as a lightning rod absorbs static electricity and harmlessly channels it to ground, leaves depend on converting potent solar energy to sugars that can be safely transferred and stored. Plants absorb sunlight which is converted to energy via photosynthesis. The plant uses water – H2O + C – carbon from carbon dioxide in the air to make plant sugar or sucrose – C12H22O11. Plant sugars are then respired at night through chemical reactions in the plant to fuel plant and seed growth. The ultimate goal of a plant is to simply produce as many potential offspring as possible. Our goal is to manipulate the plant into producing large numbers of offspring and have the offspring be as large as possible.
Potash soil test levels have widely declined during the past several years, and need to be more closely monitored. Growing conditions that limit uptake of nutrients include reduced root mass from excessive soil moisture early for some and periods of very dry soil where potassium and other nutrients are held tightly to the soil and thus are not available for plant uptake. Potash is a mobile nutrient in the plant so deficiencies typically show as yellow tips at the lower leaves of the plant. One interesting aspect is that aphids love beans that are low in potassium levels. It is very common to the largest aphid populations on soy plants with low K levels.
If you are witnessing these conditions in your crop, what can you do? Consider a foliar fertilizer that directs potassium directly to plant leaves. Often, it is tempting to reduce foliar fertilizer cost by focusing on one or two nutrients. Effective fertilization, however, depends on having adequate potassium to distribute sugars (and foliar nutrients) to other plant parts.
Don’t stand by while your soybeans go into shock. Give them a shot of potassium with their next foliar feeding.