OMEX’s upgraded SAP analysis service allows growers to make more accurate and better-informed decisions about the level of crop nutrients available in a crop, and what is then required to ensure the best performance of that crop is achieved.
Maintaining a 72-hour service from the time the samples reach OMEX laboratories through to the customer receiving the SAP results, the company has also increased the number of parameters it can test to more than 20 and includes parameters such as NO3 (Nitrate), NH4 (Ammonium), P, K, Mg, S, Ca, Na, Cl, Mn, B, Cu, Fe, Zn, Mo, Si, pH, EC (electrical conductivity) and Brix (content of sugars)
National Agronomy Manager Scott Baker said: “Its accuracy is far superior to conventional tissue testing because it measures what has actually been taken up by a plant, and can thus help diagnose rooting problems and availability issues.”
Scott said routinely monitoring crops is vital to understand how a crop is performing nutritionally, and analysing the sap helps guide agronomic decisions on foliar nutrition options.
