With its application in farming traced back to the Middle Ages, the use of silicon for improving plant and crop performance is not new. However, it is not well known or understood in current farming practices. The application of silicon has benefit for all crops. It is one of the essential elements for healthy production of broadacre, pasture and horticulture crops, but it is not well understood or utilised in western agriculture.
No other nutrient has as many beneficial effects on crop health. It is one of the most underutilised, but high impact, tools farmers have available to improve the performance and productivity of their operation.
No other nutrient has as many beneficial effects on crop health. It is one of the most underutilised, but high impact, tools farmers have available to improve the performance and productivity of their operation.
The research and literature overwhelmingly support the positive effects of silicon on plant health. Agmin Group, specialists in chelation chemistry, has developed a silicon-based nutrient complex that is chelated to help ensure the silicon is protected and remains bioavailable to the plant. Silicon’s positive impact on growth and helping plants handle biological and environmental stressors is significant.
When silicon is available to the plant, it helps with more than 50 parameters for plant health. Everything from increased photosynthesis and helping to unlock soil phosphorous, to behaving as a fungicide in the way it protects the plant. However, farmers have been challenged when using applied silicon due to the large volumes and expense required for any benefit to be seen. When applying silicon traditionally, it immediately starts to degrade into forms that that plant can’t uptake or use.
A high volume of product is needed across the crop, at great expense to the farmer and with significant waste as the silicon ‘disappears’. It defeats the purpose somewhat. By chelating the silicon complex, we are able to protect it, so it doesn’t break down into other compounds. It remains in a form that the plant can access and can therefore obtain the benefit from the application.
While the literature shows the undeniable benefits of silicon, we have been conducting our own analysis during the formulation of our Silicon Complex products and the in-field results have been nothing short of astounding. The stability and results we see are very impressive.
Excerpt from Rural Business Magazine Editorial, August 2019
When silicon is available to the plant, it helps with more than 50 parameters for plant health. Everything from increased photosynthesis and helping to unlock soil phosphorous, to behaving as a fungicide in the way it protects the plant. However, farmers have been challenged when using applied silicon due to the large volumes and expense required for any benefit to be seen. When applying silicon traditionally, it immediately starts to degrade into forms that that plant can’t uptake or use.
A high volume of product is needed across the crop, at great expense to the farmer and with significant waste as the silicon ‘disappears’. It defeats the purpose somewhat. By chelating the silicon complex, we are able to protect it, so it doesn’t break down into other compounds. It remains in a form that the plant can access and can therefore obtain the benefit from the application.
While the literature shows the undeniable benefits of silicon, we have been conducting our own analysis during the formulation of our Silicon Complex products and the in-field results have been nothing short of astounding. The stability and results we see are very impressive.
Excerpt from Rural Business Magazine Editorial, August 2019