• Nitrogen is a KEY macro nutrient needed for growth & development of the crop
  
  Important for chlorophyll production & protein synthesis
• 70% of the total N requirement for cereals is needed between GS21-39
• Conventional cereals will respond to an increase in available soil nitrogen
  
  This is often done through the addition of nitrogen fertilisers
• Applying no more than is required, helps to:-
  • Protect the environment
  • Reduce the farm carbon footprint
  • Improves MOI

This is where VIXERAN^® can help

VIXERAN® helps to optimise nitrogen fertiliser management in cereals in 2 ways:

• COMPLEMENT Yield increase in standard nitrogen fertiliser regime
• COMPENSATE Potential yield compensation in nitrogen reduction regime

Trials have shown VIXERAN^® can replace around 30 kgN/ha*

Strain:	Azotobacter salinestris Strain CECT9690
Formulation:	Solid, powder
Dose:	50 g/ha
Time of application:	Apply during periods of active crop growth. Cereals GS21-31
Nitrogen Strategy:	Complement – Can be used with all cereal crops* Compensate – Can be used with all feed quality Cereal crops*
Application:	Foliar
Action:	Biological N-fixing (leaves / roots / rhizosphere)
Shelf-life:	24 months(at room temperature); longer in cold storage

_{*Consult a FACTS Qualified Adviser for advice and guidance on nitrogen applications.Trials have shown VIXERAN® can replace up to 30 kgN/ha based on a reduction from the standard 100% nitrogen RB209 recommendation.}

Pulses provide their own nitrogen for growth and development... how can VIXERAN^® help?
Understanding the relationship pulses have with the rhizobium in the nodules, highlights why VIXERAN will help!

• Nitrogen fixing nodules are normally formed 3-5 weeks post emergence and start to fix nitrogen as soon as they are formed.
• Around the time of pod filling the nodules will gradually senesce and therefore stop fixing nitrogen.
• However, pulses are a great source protein and the demand for nitrogen is highest exactly when the nodules have senesced off, which means the plant robs the required nitrogen from leaves.
• This saps the plant of its photosynthetic yield building potential.
• By supplementing the nitrogen-need with VIXERAN^®, it reduces the burden on the leaves, allowing the plant to carry on photosynthesising and so increasing yield

Strain:	Azotobacter salinestris Strain CECT9690
Formulation:	Solid, powder
Dose:	50 g/ha
Time of application:	Apply during periods of active crop growth. Pulses GS14-60 (Optimum 14-18)
Application:	Foliar
Action:	Biological N-fixing (leaves/roots/rhizosphere)
Shelf-life:	24 months (at room temperature); longer in cold storage

Helping you enhance yield potential for your sugar beet crop​

VIXERAN^® - A unique nitrogen fixing bacteria, formulated for foliar application.​

VIXERAN^® takes freely available nitrogen from the air and converts it efficiently into a usable form that all your crops can use, helping to fill the gap between the crop's nitrogen supply and nitrogen demand. ​

Why do we need to improve nitrogen use efficiency?​

Nitrogen is essential for all crops to grow and produce yield, but there are many situations where it is not possible to meet the nitrogen demand of the plant. Much of the nitrogen added through fertiliser for example, can be lost to the environment through volatilisation or leaching.​

Applied as a foliar application in this peak demand stage, VIXERAN^® supplies a sustainable and reliable source of nitrogen to the crop. ​

How VIXERAN works​

Since VIXERAN is a resilient free-living bacterium that can survive in the rhizosphere, it is not only able to colonise the foliage through the stomata, pores & fractures but it can also colonise the roots via primary and lateral root hair cells, root cracks and wounds​

As soon as VIXERAN^® enters the plant, it converts atmospheric N2 into the plant available form of ammonium.

But what makes VIXERAN^® even more unique is that it can produce a protective barrier around the plant, called a biofilm. This helps to maximise the colonisation process, whilst also protecting the plant and bacteria from harsh environment pressures and phytopathogens (organisms that cause plant disease). ​

VIXERAN^® trial on sugar beet, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, 2023

Planting date and variety: 29 April 2023, Kortessa KWS

VIXERAN^® application date: 30 May 2023

Rate of use: 50g/ha

Number of applications: 1 (BBCH 14-18)

Total Nitrogen applied: 150kgN

Harvest results: 17 November 2023 - there was an improvement in leaf nitrogen content and a significant increase in root yield, with any reduction in sugar percentage.

• Ideal conditions at application (warm & humid)
• Increased yields
• Improved sugar content = higher adjusted tonnes