1. Top Ways to Make Micros Pay on Your Farm this Season

3. How to make the most of your micronutrient investment Introduction to Wolf Trax Wolf Trax Technology DDP Micronutrients PROTINUS Seed Nutrition Top Ways to Make Micros Pay on Your Farm

4. Wolf Trax Innovations

5. DDP® Micronutrients Zinc DDP Boron DDP Copper DDP Manganese DDP Iron DDP Calcium DDP CropMix DDP

6. Proprietary nutrition product applied directly onto the seed A logical next step in seed-applied technology

7. Top Ways to Make Micros Pay on Your Farm this Season

8. Consider Micronutrients if you are striving for higher yields Top Ways to Make Micros Pay on Your Farm

9. What are the “high yield” growers doing? • The National Corn Growers Association yield contest winners consistently pull off 100 plus bushels per acre more than the national average

10. US Corn Yield Competition Winner 2009

11. National Corn Growers Association yield contest winners

12. Strategy for corn yield winners • Seed early • Use micronutrients • Starter fertilizer

13. New genetics = higher nutrient needs

14. Pay attention to Nutrient Balance Top Ways to Make Micros Pay on Your Farm

15. Pay attention to NUTRIENT BALANCE The “Law of the Minimum” • If one nutrient is lacking, plant growth and yield will be poor, regardless of how abundant all the other nutrients are. • A crop’s yield potential is limited by the amount of the most limiting nutrient.

16. Liebig's Law of the Minimum Capacity of the barrel (crop yield) is limited by the most limiting stave (nutrient) Potassium The most limiting nutrient limits yield REGARDLESS of how high the other barrel staves are! Nitrogen Phosphorus Zinc

17. What’s NEW with the barrel! Its bigger and taller! ~ 300 bu corn Micro Nitrogen Phosphorus Potassium Potassium Nitrogen Phosphorus Micro

18. Importance of nutrient balance • Need to remember micronutrients too

19. Use three tools – soil tests, tissue tests and your fertilizer agronomist Top Ways to Make Micros Pay on Your Farm

20. Soil Tests are Important

21. Field Scouting is Key Copper deficiency Zinc deficiency

22. Make sure you are getting a consistent fertilizer blend Top Ways to Make Micros Pay on Your Farm

23. Granular micronutrients Achieving consistent blends is difficult!

24. Particle Size differences Urea 12% Cu Oxysulfate

25. Bulk Density • Most micros much heavier than N, P or K • Fall to bottom of blend

26. Segregation and Settling

27. Solution = DDP Micronutrients • DDP (Dry Dispersible Powder) Micronutrients patented formulation coats each and every fertilizer prill • Do not come off • High quality blends from blender to spreader to field

28. Granular vs DDP Micronutrients Boron DDP on every prill of fertilizer Granular boron irregularly distributed in blend

29. Use better micronutrient placement techniques Top Ways to Make Micros Pay on Your Farm

30. You cannot achieve an even distribution of micronutrient across your field with granular micronutrients because of tendency to segregate and settle.

31. Floater traveled 9 miles with a granular Zn, Boron blend, then applied the fertilizer to a field

32. We placed 10 x 10 ft plastic tarps in the field to capture blend 9

33. Irregular distribution of granular micro

34. Uneven distribution can cause: • Deficient areas • Toxic areas • Uneven crop maturation • Difficulty in timing sprays & harvests • LOST YIELDS!

35. Ensure Thorough Coverage with DDP • Blends are completely coated • Provides fields with blanket coverage • Results in even/thorough distribution of micronutrients vs Granulars DDP

36. Feed your crop as early as possible Top Ways to Make Micros Pay on Your Farm

37. Your crop = factory • Job is to collect sunlight and make sugar. • How to make factory run longer and produce more?

38. Early uptake of nutrients...

40. Patented, seed-applied fertilizer • Safely delivers essential nutrients directly to the seed • Nutrients available as soon as the radicle emerges

42. Faster, more even emergence CHECK

43. Faster, more even emergence CONTROL

44. Larger, more vigorous seedlings PROTINUS CHECK CHECK CHECK

45. Larger Seedlings CHECK

46. Longer, more developed root systems CHECK CONTROL

47. Longer roots

48. Longer roots CHECK PROTINUS

49. Ability to withstand early season stress CONTROL CONTROL

50. Benefits of feeding crop early CONTROL