2014 Tech Meeting

Dan Fiser

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Crop: Potatoes Location: Stockton Ca Dates: – Harvesting: July 2,2014

Objective: Evaluation of Intracept

Treatments:

#1) GSP

#2) GSP + 1 pt on seed piece

#3) GSP + 1pt on seed + 1pt foliar at tuber initiation

#4) GSP + 1 pt foliar at tuber initiation

Summary - The addition of Intracept at planting or at hooking or both did not improve overallnumber of tubers or total yield. However , Intracept treatments increased the number of Class “A” tubers which are the most valuable. Additionally the foliar application of Intracept at hooking reduced the number of low value class “C” tubers

Bakers A B C0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

Size Class Distribution

Grower StandardPlantingFoliarPlanting + Foliar

# Tu

bers

Grower Standard

Planting Foliar Planting + Foliar4445464748495051525354

# Tubers per Sample

# Tubers

3

Trial : Intracept Crop: potatoes

Harvest Fruit Sugar Content

Grower Standard Planting Foliar Planting + Foliar4.8

5

5.2

5.4

5.6

5.8

6

6.2

6.4

Mean Harvest Weight

lb

Treatment and Rep

# tube

rsWeight

(lb)Weight

per tuber (lb)

1 - 1 66 8.42 0.12761 – 2 67 6.54 0.09761 – 3 41 5.06 0.12341 – 4 34 4.9 0.1441Trt 1 mean 52 6.23 0.12322 – 1 62 6.1 0.09842 – 2 44 5.86 0.13322 – 3 52 4.9 0.09422 – 4 53 5.36 0.1011Trt 2 mean 52.7

5 5.55 0.1067

3 – 1 39 4.46 0.11443 – 2 46 5.54 0.12043 – 3 47 5.08 0.10813 – 4 58 6.54 0.1128Trt 3 mean 47.5 5.41 0.11394 – 1 48 6.52 0.13584 – 2 58 7.46 0.12864 – 3 40 5.32 0.13304 - 4 46 5.48 0.1191Trt 4 mean 48 6.195 0.1291

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Crop: Potatoes Location: Stockton Ca Dates: – Harvesting: July 2,2014

Objective: Evaluation of Intracept

Treatments:

#1) GSP

#2) GSP + 1 pt on seed piece

#3) GSP + 1pt on seed + 1pt foliar at tuber initiation

#4) GSP + 1 pt foliar at tuber initiation

Summary - The addition of Intracept at planting or at hooking or both did not improve overallnumber of tubers or total yield. However , Intracept treatments increased the number of Class “A” tubers which are the most valuable. Additionally the foliar application of Intracept at hooking reduced the number of low value class “C” tubers

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Crop: Cotton Location: Tulare Lake Basin Dates(If applicable): – Harvesting: – First pick only

Objective: Evaluation of Brandt Smart Trio® on cotton

Treatments: 1 qt Brandt Smart Trio +– 4-28-14 – 32oz Honcho + Intrepid– 6-12-14– Wrangler + Steward

Brandt Smart Trio Results are within the 95% confidence level ,however the treated replications on average yielded higher than the untreated.

Grower Standard

Smart Trio

1780 1785 1790 1795 1800 1805 1810 1815

1792.5

1809

lb/acre

*Yield (lbs Lint/Acre) Rep 1 Rep 2 Rep 3 Rep 4 Rep 5 Rep 6 Rep 7 Rep 8 Average

Smart Trio 1832 1793 1850 1756 1802 1828 1854 1758 1809Untreated 1791 1800 1791 1743 1791 1806 1823 1795 1793

Steric K on Navel Oranges

Cooperator- Gar Tootelian, Dennis McFarlin

Applied thru micro sprinklers : 10 gpa 8-29-2014 10 gpa 9-12-2014 Pre treat tissue samples taken 8-27-

2014

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Treatments #1) East Rep #2) West rep #3) GSP no additional K

Note : CAN 17 applied to all treatments

Steric K in Navel Oranges

Treatment Area

% Nitrogen % Phosphate % PotashPre-app Post-app Change Pre-app Post-app Change Pre-app Post-app Chang

eSteric K - East 2.94 2.97 +0.03 0.13 0.13 0.00 0.97 0.99 +0.02Steric K - West 2.76 2.82 +0.06 0.13 0.14 +0.01 1.46 1.25 -0.21Grower Stand. 2.74 2.67 -0.07 0.13 0.13 0.00 1.40 1.22 -0.18

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Treatment Area PPM Zn PPM Mn PPM B % Ca % Mg PPM Fe PPM CuSteric K - East 89 47 145 5.1 0.45 114 23Steric K - West 92 48 166 5.29 0.42 127 20Grower Stand. 93 46 171 4.67 0.39 122 20

N-P-K Tissue Sample ResultsSecondary and Micronutrient Tissue Sample Results, Post-Application

Treatments may have contributed to an increased uptake of N & Ca

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Crop: Oranges Location: Orange Cove CA Dates – Harvesting: November, 2104

Objective: Steric K on Navel Oranges

Treatments:

#1) GSP

#2) Rep #1 West

#3) Rep #2 East

Steric Avg

Steric East

Steric West

Grower Standard

11.5 12 12.5 13 13.5 14

12.61

12.31

12.91

13.79

Harvest Fruit Sugar Content

Deg Brix

Steric Avg

Steric K East

Steric K West

Grower Standard

42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52

48.53

51.00

46.06

45.63

Harvest Fruit Weight

lb/100 fruit

Treatments show a positive effect on fruit size which may have contributed to a Diluted sugar content.

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