WAVE™ biostimulant from UPL is proven to deliver a 1.9 bu/A yield boost by combining three modes of action.
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For many canola growers, there’s a healthy interest in incorporating biologicals into their operations because of the many potential benefits, like increased nutrient uptake and increased yield potential.
But that interest oftentimes comes with skepticism because, in many cases, biological solutions come to market with a lack of data around efficacy or clarity as to where they are best suited to make impacts. It also could be that a grower’s previous experience using biologicals with other crops did not return the expected results.
“Many times, biologicals are positioned as broad-use products that can fit just about any need — which leads to issues when they don’t perform as expected,” says Tony Dalgliesh, Canadian marketing manager for UPL Corp. “At UPL, we’re ensuring we understand the best uses for our biological products through extensive field testing so growers can feel confident they’ll see the results they expect.”
Canola is a crop where UPL has found a strong fit for one of its biological solutions: WAVE™ biostimulant. WAVE is a highly concentrated biological solution that is proven in extensive field studies to consistently boost canola performance and help increase yields potential by an average of nearly 2 bu/A.
Combining three modes of action to improve crop health and preserve yield potential.
WAVE uses the most concentrated formulation of Ascophyllum nodosum, a seaweed extract, on the market to deliver three beneficial modes of action in canola plants:
- First, it increases nutrient use efficiency, including uptake of NO3 and NH4, conversion of NO3 to NH4 and nitrogen assimilation in the plant.
- Next, it enhances reproductive traits, including increasing flowering and fruit set.
- And finally, it mitigates abiotic stresses, including stimulating root growth to help with drought stress and can increase and promote fruit set and pollen viability during heat stress.icial modes of action in canola plants:
“These three modes of action all combine to improve overall crop health and vigor and preserve a canola crop’s ability to achieve top-end yield potential,” says Dalgliesh. “In our extensive foliar applied testing on canola, WAVE biostimulant delivered a 1.9 bu/A or 6% yield increase over untreated canola.”
WAVE is foliar applied to actively growing canola crops and has excellent tank-mix compatibility, so it is easy to incorporate into existing crop protection applications, such as post emergent glufosinate applications. Dalgliesh says INTERLINE® herbicide is an especially effective glufosinate tank-mix partner for WAVE, delivering exceptional weed control and a performance boost in one pass.
The highly concentrated formulation of WAVE means growers use less product to treat more acres and have less packaging and waste to dispose of. With a low application rate of only 60 ml/acre, one container of WAVE can cover 120 acres. Finally, because WAVE is not a living organism, it boasts a longer shelf life than many competitive products in this space.
Growers looking for more information about WAVE biostimulant should contact their retailer or local UPL representative, or visit uplcorp.com/ca/product-details/wavebiostimulant.
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