A few years ago we decided that we couldn’t continue placing large amounts of salt based synthetic fertilizer in the soil at seeding time and hope for a crop.  This strategy no longer worked, with severely increasing input costs and adverse effects we where seeing to the soil, the risk was too high.  We decided that we needed to shift our thinking and reduce our front load fertilizer at seeding time to a minimum and if we got rain we could chase higher yields with foliar applied nutrients.  The issue we had was that current foliar technology didn’t allow us to get much nutrient into the plants in a foliar application. Last year we started using Vantage Ag’s new Quantum Ag liquid fertilizer products and we were astounded at the how much nutrient we could get into the plant in a foliar application and at such low rates and cost.  We were so impressed with this new technology that we decided we wanted to sell this product to other growers in our area that also needed this technology. This year we hired an agronomist to do tissue sampling for our us and our customers.  We decided that we would fertilize for 35-40 bushel durum and when the opportunity came with rain in June we now had the ability to use this new technology to get whatever nutrient was short in the plants in whatever quantity that we needed.  It was so easy to do; tissue sample to find out what nutrient was required; and tank mix the nutrients with whatever herbicide we were applying in the sprayer and within a few hours we had remedied the fertility issues. We saw tissue samples go from red to green on Phosphate, as an example, with a $7 per acre investment.  These new products from Vantage Ag have changed the way we farm.  They have helped us drastically reduce our risk and if mother nature is cooperating we can achieve higher yields.  This ROI is one of the highest we’ve seen on any input we have used on our farm.

" The results have truly been amazing, at very low rates and investment we are getting more nutrientsinto the plants in a foliar application than we ever thought was possible ... These tiny nutrientparticles are quickly absorbed and utilized by the plants at a fraction of the price of traditionalgranular fertilizer. The ROI on these products for our customers is extremely high and we willcontinue to work with our grower customers to build trust with these new products from Vantage Ag "