Specialty Agriculture

The term “specialty Ag” includes high value crops ranging from vegetable crops grown under plastic mulch with drip irrigation (strawberries, tomatoes, peppers, melons, etc.), fruit and nut crops such as citrus, almonds, apples, vine crops such as berries, grapes, reforestation of seedling trees and aquaculture.

As water usage in agriculture becomes more critical, the use of drip irrigation along with slow-release fertilizers will significantly increase based on maintaining an adequate nutrient supply in the wetted root zone and minimizing leaching of these nutrients.

Safety in terms of fertilizer burn potential will be required for such products as placement within the root zone becomes critical for maximum use efficiency of the applied fertilizer nutrients.
Current usage of slow-release fertilizers is limited to high value vegetable crops (i.e. strawberries, tomatoes and other winter harvested crops grown under plastic mulch).

Multiform Harvest slow-release fertilizer is ideal for areas such as the western U.S. due to tougher water use and environmental restrictions, increased production costs and the inherent phosphorus fixation capability of alkaline soils located in semi-arid production regions (California, eastern WA and OR, ID, NV, AZ, NM).