Encouraging soil life all year round
Markus Meyer
Windehause
Germany
Encouraging soil life all year round - Soil shading - Balanced plant nutrition
Markus Meyer has been using AKRA products for 10 years now and is still a massive fan. He now uses the Karner fertilising system on his entire farm, including AKRA DGC as lime in the crop rotation, AKRA Kombi as soil and foliar fertiliser and N-bacteria as the best possible boost for his crops.
On average, his winter barley (which is sown after wheat on fields in low mountainous areas with weathered red sandstone soil) yields were 96 dt and the moisture content was 13%, with 133 mm of rainfall (April-June). He certainly stayed under the recommendations of the German Fertiliser Ordinance by using a total of 140 kg N/ha in the form of Piamon S, 2 dt AKRA Kombi and the recommended bacteria and micronutrients mixtures.
Even with wheat, the results were clear to see: In the second half of August, the threshed rapeseed wheat harvest produced some impressive results with a sample size of 356, CP of 12.3% and a yield of 95 dt/ha with a fertiliser application of 150 kg N/ha. Beforehand, Meyer had treated the rapeseed stubble with 1 l AKRA Stroh R. + P + K and 3 l AKRA Sulpur+ to tackle verticillium and other soil-borne diseases.
“With barley like this, today we are already where politicians want us to be tomorrow.”
