Enhancing maize crop yield with YieldOn

YieldOn is an innovative new biostimulant from Valagro UK Ltd and has been developed using cutting edge genomics technology. The product works by helping enhance yield in a range of agricultural crops and is a blend of the following components:

• Three natural plant extracts
• Chelated Manganese
• Chelated Zinc
• Molybdenum

YieldOn works by stimulating growth in the developing grain sites. The main processes include:

• Helping increase cell numbers
• Helping increase cell size
• Helping to enhance the movement of sugars and nutrients to the developing grain sites

Three years of trials in the UK have shown some impressive yield responses from a single application of YieldOn at flag leaf in cereals and mid-flowering in oilseed rape. The company have also recently started trials with forage maize.

Initial field-scale observations were carried out by Wynnstay agronomists and these showed significant increases in cob weights between YieldOn treated and untreated areas of the crop.

Replicated trials with the MGA were subsequently carried out in 2021, comparing standard crop management, with and without YieldOn. These trials showed no significant increases in dry matter yields between YieldOn treated and untreated plots, but improvements in quality were seen and are summarised in the table below. Metabolisable energy and starch content were both increased, helping to improve the energy density of the forage. The benefits of this can be reflected in higher milk yields and better liveweight gains.

Further trials were run in 2022 and these also included investigations with reduced N applications with YieldOn.

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