Also see the Technical Specifications page for a full Liquid Plant Nutrition product range and analysis.

Liquid Chelated Minerals and Trace Elements.

Higher life forms will not survive without the adequate and balanced supply of the major elements of Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Calcium, Phosphorous, Potassium, Sodium, Sulphur, and Magnesium. Nor will they prosper without the "Trace Elements" of Iron, Zinc, Selenium, Copper, Molybdenum, Manganese, Cobalt, Nickel, Chromium, Vanadium, Chlorine, Iodine, Fluorine, and Bromine.

Whilst the Major elements are essential for critical structural or chemo/physiological processes, the trace elements whilst often required in minute quantities, are critical to enzymatic activity.

Farming, particularly intensive agriculture requires the management of elements meeting the crop/animal requirements on specific soils/soil types. The management of elements relies on two scientific paradigms, Reciprocal Antagonism or the stimulation or antagonism of elements with each other, and "Liebig's law of the minimum" which suggests the crop or pasture is limited by the amount of nutrient present in the smallest amount. These laws have been considered by William Albrecht in the development of his tests and procedure to "balance" soils, and Carey Reams measuring the bioavailability of nutrients to plants and micro-organisms in soil.

Good management of soil elements, their quantities, balance and availability requires a soil assay, the classification of the soil type, its previous usage, measuring the "bank" of elements and their bioavailability. All of which is supported by a plant tissue analysis determining the actual presence of elements within tissues, compared against standards.

To some extent modern agriculture is embracing these diagnostic processes, however the general custom is to apply Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium and maybe some key trace elements during "appropriate" growth periods. This lack of specificity is proving to be an unsound management practice, creating as many problems as it is solving. FMN's "Prescriptive Agriculture" uses soil and tissue analysis, to develop nutrient application program's consistent with sustainable production.

Sustainable management practices include:

• Nutrient (major and trace element) replacement or balancing, against a diagnosed requirement.

• Biological farming; working with biological systems.

• The building back of soil organic matter.

• Increasing the populations and complexity of soil micro-organisms.

• Non-acidifying farming practices.

FMN will therefore provide the analytical services and products necessary for corrective and developmental farm management.

FMN Chelated Elements

FMN markets the full range of major and trace elements, or micronutrients required for all forms of Agriculture. The presentation of the trace element to the plant is most important with many suppliers offering the micronutrients in an inorganic molecular complex.

FMN elements are chelated into liquid organic compounds, which are readily translocated into the plant, where the weak (chelate) bond is readily broken and the element released. These organic chelating agents, typically ligno-sulphonates, are translocated into cells via active protein pumps unlike the maintenance of ionic pressure needed to transfer the inorganic compounds as used by some manufacturers.

FMN chelates are presented to the plant as a foliar or leaf spray, applied to the soil or distributed through the irrigation systems. They are readily absorbed and rapidly made available where they are most needed within the plant, and not wasted or rapidly bound into soil structures.

Farmers Marketing Network Liquid Plant Nutrition includes the nutrients of N-P-K, Calcium, Magnesium and Sulphur, plus all the essential micronutrients, organically chelated, and suitable for foliar, fertigation or soil application.

The nutrients are chelated into organic compounds, which are readily translocated into and within the plant, where the weak (chelate) bond is readily broken and the nutrients released.

They are best applied to the plant as a foliar or leaf spray, readily absorbed and rapidly made available, where they are most needed within the plant. However Farmers Marketing Network Liquid Nutrition may be applied through the irrigation systems, or directly to the soil, where they are also available to the plant roots in healthy well-balanced conditions. The chelates used for FMN nutrients are not bound into soil structures, as often occurs when inorganic nutrients are applied.

SEE OUR PRODUCTS
"Balance" Multinutrient > "Synergy" Calcium - Nitrogen + B > "Synergy" Magnesium + Zn > "Synergy" Potasium + Boron
"Pasture" Stock nutrition complex > Ag-Buffer Surfactant > Cupricide - Algaecide > Turf - Multinutrient