Trace Elements & Fungicides

There is a growing body of evidence, both scientific and from commercial on farm cases that in-furrow application of both fungicides and trace elements is a more effective and cost efficient method than post emergent spray applications.

After the initial investment in suitable equipment, adding liquid injection of fungicides and trace elements adds negligible cost to your planting regime beyond the cost of the chemicals themselves.

In particular, over the last growing season, Liquid Systems customers on the Eyre Peninsula in SA and near Manangatang in Victoria have obtained great financial benefit through this practice by avoiding the need entirely to perform post emergent spraying of fungicide or trace elements.

Return on Investment and Savings Calculator

Download this free calculator to calculate potential savings to be made by incorporating trace elements and fungicides via soil injection at planting time. Enter figures that relate to your operation. If you are unsure of what figures to enter, please consult with an agronomist.

See the difference...

Chickpeas inoculated In-furrow with Nodulaid using liquid injection.

Using a Liquid Injection System from Liquid Systems (SA) eliminates the old traditional slurry method.

Gerad Rowe from Mullewa, Western Australia used a Liquid Systems unit to apply Nodulaid from Becker Underwood which is a peat based legume inoculant.  It contains rhizobia specific to the crop being treated which colonise the plant’s roots and enables the legume plant to draw nitrogen from the air and fix it into the soil.  This nitrogen is then available to the plant and following non-legume crops such as wheat, barley and canola.

Peat based inoculants have been traditionally used as a seed treatment being mixed with water into a slurry and applied to seed.

However growers can now mix Nodulaid into water using a new porous calico bag that is attached to the tank lid while filling the tank with chlorine-free water.  It is then applied through the liquid furrow injection system.

By mixing it in water and injecting either with or below the seed, growers save having to treat the seed and leaving the rhizobia in the truck waiting to be sown.  It also results in better survival and greater effect of the rhizobia where it is banded into cooler, moist soil.  Growers should use the mixture within 24 hours, as the rhizobia will lose their effectiveness.