Agriculture: Salinity Management
About Salinity Management
Do you currently have vast white spots showing up on your crop fields? Do your crops seem water stressed, or is there a white crust visible on the soil surface? Although these visual symptoms may indicate a salinity issue in your field, it is important that a proper diagnosis takes place for successful problem correction. Salinity issues are frequently caused by an accumulation of salts in the root zone. These excess salts in turn result in reduced plant growth by altering water relations, causing ion-specific toxicities, or causing imbalances. When salinity may be suspected to be caused by a high water table, you can usually measure the depth of ground water by boring holes with an auger. If free water collects in holes less than 4 to 5 feet deep, a drainage problem is indicated. It is common for farmers to apply supplements of calcium to help with the overall health of a crop along with rebuilding the soil structure for roots to properly absorb nutrients.
Agriculture: Salinity Management
About Salinity Management
Do you currently have vast white spots showing up on your crop fields? Do your crops seem water stressed, or is there a white crust visible on the soil surface? Although these visual symptoms may indicate a salinity issue in your field, it is important that a proper diagnosis takes place for successful problem correction. Salinity issues are frequently caused by an accumulation of salts in the root zone. These excess salts in turn result in reduced plant growth by altering water relations, causing ion-specific toxicities, or causing imbalances. When salinity may be suspected to be caused by a high water table, you can usually measure the depth of ground water by boring holes with an auger. If free water collects in holes less than 4 to 5 feet deep, a drainage problem is indicated. It is common for farmers to apply supplements of calcium to help with the overall health of a crop along with rebuilding the soil structure for roots to properly absorb nutrients.
RECOMMENDED PRODUCTS
Sodium accumulations in soil replace calcium, which destroys soil structure. As a result, water and soil aeration are reduced. Salt Remedy provides high levels of exchangeable calcium ions which displace sodium ions that are absorbed on cation exchange sites of soil colloids. The outcome is the restoration of soil structure and the prevention of sodium build up resulting in vigorous crop growth.
SurCal+ helps reconstruct the soil your crops grow in so that there are micropore spaces for root development and nutrient uptake. It adds the important surfactant to carry the calcium to where it is needed most while simultaneously lowering surface tension for better water movement.
Farmers have long understood the importance of calcium for crop nutrition with the standard treatment often being gypsum, lime or calcium nitrate. However, none of these solutions are plant available. MegaCal contains plant-available calcium that is both nano-sized for efficient delivery and chelated so that the nutrients’ outer shell allows it to easily maneuver around other charged ions in the soil and easily enter the plant. Calcium helps maintain a chemical balance in the soil, reduces soil salinity, and improves water penetration into the soil, assisting in the restoration of soil colloid flocculation.