Increase in onion yield after a 20% reduction in fungicide

And how can Maxstim’s complex biostimulants help?

Our agronomy team have been working with onion farmers in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to assess if it is possible to reduce the use of agricultural fungicides and still improve the yield of a red onion crop. We’ve compared best practice control plots to plots using a Maxstim biostimulant treatment regime.

We demonstrated previously that our complex biostimulants trials achieved a margin increase of over £1400 per hectare, and that yield increases were possible with the use of 20% less fertiliser. To investigate the impact of reducing fungicides, we applied an experimental treatment with 20% less fungicide than currently described as best practice. The growers implemented our application protocol, on a crop of Red Baron variety, at the recommended total amount of 32.5L of Agriculture+ and 8L of Cynosa per hectare spread over 4 separate applications. The initial application was injected into the soil at planting, providing a great starter for the crop, followed by remaining applications delivered as a foliar spray. The increase in yield was calculated at harvest.