Field Science mineral dressings restore the nutrient balance in a soil's profile to produce optimal crop growth, yield and resistance to disease, at the same time reducing the need for chemical fertilisers. It is the micronutrient (trace element) deficiencies that are usually the yield-limiting factor.
Applying tailored trace element dressings to pastures ensures that the grasses provide livestock with the correct balance of nutrients as and when required. Livestock health and fertility improve with no need for mineral supplements and less need for fertiliser. Most organic land was farmed conventionally until comparatively recently.
Applying tailored trace element dressings to pastures ensures that the grasses provide livestock with the correct balance of nutrients as and when required. Livestock health and fertility improve with no need for mineral supplements and less need for fertiliser. Most organic land was farmed conventionally until comparatively recently.
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Field Science was formed in 2000 and became a limited company in 2002. The main focus at the outset was to improve animal welfare standards in UK livestock. The company was aware that agricultural soils had become so depleted of essential mineral nutrients that most animals lost condition and many would die without the minerals that had become essential dietary supplements.
Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium were the only nutrients that a German, Justus Von Liebig, was able to identify in 1840 when he analysed plant ash; simply because they were the most plentiful. Sadly, all the micronutrients were lost up the chimney. One hundred years ago, another German, Fritz Haber, ironically of Jewish descent, discovered how to fix atmospheric nitrogen.
The treated ground was unimproved, ancient, ridge and furrow ground. This land had never finished beef cattle in our ownership. Now, on grass alone they are not only finishing, but they are also finishing faster. We have also raised sheep on the treated land and on adjoining, untreated land belonging to neighbours.
The simplistic answer to a mineral problem is to spray a crop, bolus a cow or drench a lamb to remedy an observed deficiency. This is inefficient because the crop, cow or lamb has already suffered from the mineral deficiency before it was noticed and a further time lag occurs before we get round to doing anything about it.
The management of modern sportsturf-based playing surfaces have become a minefield for the professional Groundsman. The need to provide year-round playing surfaces has led to the adoption of fast-draining, sand-based tees/greens/pitches/fields/courts which are all extremely 'hungry' and providing the correct formulation of fertilisers and dressings is a complicated art.
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