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Promoting Soil and Plant Health and Growth through Bio-Agronomy & Nutrition
Reliance on crop protection chemicals and manufactured fertilisers alone to control crop pests, diseases and supply all the required nutrients is becoming ever more challenging.
About Tricet UK
Tricet UK are at the cutting edge of Bio-nutrition, developing new agronomy from the statistical evidence taken from extensive trial work.
Jointly the three Directors of Tricet have over 120 years of agribusiness experience covering practical farming, agronomy, business management, research and development and sales and marketing in the UK, Europe and South America.
This wealth of experience allows us to offer invaluable help and support to our distributors and their customers for the profitable development of their businesses.
Tricet Product Range
Tricet's range of products have been developed to promote greater biological activity in the soil and plants, leading to enhanced resilience, health, quality and yield in all crops, to include cereals, legumes, roots, brassicas, vines, soft and top fruits.
Reinforcing the development of natural life and fertility back into our soils, stimulates crop development by raising the plant’s natural defences, thus reducing reliance on conventional crop protection and fertilisers.
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Bio-Nutrition
What is Bio-Nutrition?
Bio-nutrition products are compounds, substances and micro-organisms that, when applied to soils and plants, improve crop vigour and resilience to stress, leading to improved yield and quality.
Bio-nutrition includes soil and seed treatments and/or foliar sprays that stimulate, not only the development of microbial and soil fauna populations, but the development of the plant. These treatments also compliment and support natural bio-activity, leading to a greater and more efficient uptake of nutrition to maximise yield and quality potential.
Using Bio-nutrient agronomy techniques is an important part of a sustainable farming system.
The precise and timely application of Tricet UK’s Bio-nutrient range of products will positively affect plant growth, quality and yield through:
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Improved soil health and fertility, stimulating complementary soil micro-organisms
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Increased plant resilience to abiotic and biotic stress
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Improved water efficiency
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Improved efficiency of metabolism from greater nutrient uptake and translocation
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Enhanced brix values, flavour, colour, crop yield and quality
What is Bio-Nutrition Agronomy?
Bio-nutrition Agronomy comes from using precisely applied, specific, Tricet UK Bio-nutrients at appropriate crop growth stages; encouraging a relationship between plants, soils, nutrition and beneficial
micro-organisms to enhance nutrient uptake and positively affect plant defences and resilience, to adverse environmental conditions.
Bio-nutrition Agronomy is part of the Integrated Farm Management toolkit. Bio-nutrition Agronomy and IFM are Natural Partners.
Trials and demonstrations support the understanding of how these products deliver the clear benefits of improved yield and quality.
Farmers and their advisers are under pressure to produce healthy productive plants whilst reducing reliance on inputs of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides. Bio-nutrition Agronomy provides a pro-active beneficial input.
When certain Bio-agents and compounds are applied to plants in low concentrations, biochemical, genetic and physical defence mechanisms are released. These compounds are known as elicitors. The Tricet UK products mimic these compounds and so activate the plant’s defence mechanisms, the plant believing that it is under attack. A range of pathogen related proteins and protease inhibitors are then produced by the plant to limit the activity of the pathogen’s enzymes.
Why Bio-Nutrition for Agriculture?
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Tricet Micronised Bio-nutrients are more efficient than conventional compound fertilisers
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Bio-nutrition increases beneficial micro-organisms in the soil. This has direct action on plant health as well as providing specific and precise nutritional needs, resulting in increased yield, quality and profit
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Tricet’s Bio-nutrition complements standard conventional crop nutrition and crop protection providing a synergistic effect
Bio-nutrients can be used to supplement and enhance existing agricultural inputs:
Your Soils
Soils that have been heavily cultivated over a long period are typically low in organic matter. They also tend to have very low or unbalanced populations of microflora, and can be acidic, with excessive magnesium or aluminium. As a result, they present several problems for a farmer.
They will have unbalanced cationic exchange capacity. Get to know your soils with a health check at cost with Tricet UK.
Fertilisers leach out quickly or get tied to excess metals, and become inaccessible to the plant.
They will have low water retention properties, and plants may be susceptible to disease, drought stress and nutrient deficiency.
Together with IFM and Bio-Nutrient Agronomy, we can treat and repair such soils.
The end goal of bio-nutrient agronomy is to produce high-yielding, healthy crops while reducing chemical fertiliser inputs and pesticides.
If you select the best bio-nutrients, you can reduce the use of conventional inputs and repair the soil sustainability. This should result in improved efficiency and results.
What is Soil Organic Matter?
We measure 1% (low) to 5% (ideal) SOM in cultivated soils: 50gms per kg
Soil Organic Matter is:
Stabilised OM - Particulate OM, Humic Acid, Fulvic Acid, Humin.
Dead and decaying parts of plants/animals & myriads of living organisms.
In a UK well developed pasture, the weight of SOM below the ground is equivalent to 2000 sheep/Ha above ground (800/acre) mycorrhizal fungi synthesize Glomalin – a glycoprotein present in large amounts in healthy soils.
Amino Acids
The Role and Importance of Amino Acids in Soil and Plants
What exactly are amino acids?
Amino acids are organic compounds that are comprised primarily of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen. This “cocktail” of essential elements forms the building blocks for proteins, which are the basic components required for living cells to exist. Plants are able to synthesize amino acids by obtaining carbon and oxygen from the air, hydrogen from water and nitrogen from the soil, combining these key ingredients together in order to generate amino acids through the formation of complex biochemical pathways (e.g., photosynthesis).
Amino acids: the essential nutrient for soil and plant health
Amino acids also serve as a vital food source for the untold billions of microbes found in the soil. The carbon found in amino acids is one of the primary energy sources for these tiny soil microbes, which metabolize the carbon in order to continue building their populations.
The prevalence of amino acids in the soil and in the plant is directly proportional to the overall health, quality and yield of the crop you’re trying to grow.
There are thousands of different species of beneficial microbes that contribute to the health of soil and plant life.
The life cycle of these microbes is very short, as they die off they release vital organic compounds back into the soil that can be used for nourishment as well. This delicate give-and-take relationship between the microbes, soil and plant life depends upon amino acids to thrive, so it stands to reason that the soil with the highest quantities of amino acids will ultimately provide the highest level of nutrition for the plants.
Amino acids have various prominent functions in plants. Besides their usage during protein biosynthesis, they also represent building blocks for several other biosynthesis pathways and play pivotal roles during signalling processes as well as in plant stress response.
The importance of amino acids and complete balanced nutrition in soils and plants should not be underestimated. It is essential for, and flows through the whole food chain, from soils, to plants, to animals and to humans (we are what we eat!).
The amino acid complex used in the formulations of Tricet Pro-Soil, Tricet Pro-Foliar and Tricet Pro-Growth contains a minimum of 18 essential amino acids, including the following:
