The new cherry cold hardiness model on AgWeatherNet as beta version
25 Feb 2025
Predicting sweet cherry hardiness is crucial for frost management, as early spring development makes them vulnerable to late frosts.
Leaf nutrient content analysis has been one of the most important tools available to growers for many years to assess the nutritional status of their orchards, design fertilization programs, make adjustments during the season, and determine the impact of a nutritional strategy to correct deficiencies, excesses, and/or restore balances among different elements.
It is also widely used to confirm diagnoses of symptoms associated with nutritional problems such as iron chlorosis or necrosis, among others, enabling appropriate solutions in each situation.
It is a low-cost, easy-to-sample analysis with reliable results if performed by certified laboratories and with reduced result delivery times.
Today, the fruit industry faces growing demands from target markets, necessitating:
It should be noted that fertilizer prices have exponentially increased in recent months, forcing exploration of alternatives, which can also become significant opportunities, such as:
Practices related to regenerative agriculture: Inoculation of microorganisms that help improve nutrient availability, such as:
This will require constant evaluation of essential element levels in leaves to determine the extent to which it is possible to transition to this type of input without altering nutritional balance, thus achieving high-quality fruit production without reducing productivity.
The main limitations faced by producers, managers, and technicians are as follows:
At Abud & Co., understanding the importance of efficient nutrition based on good diagnostics for decision-making processes, we have:
It consists of monitoring stations where nutritional levels and inputs are analyzed throughout the season in soil, water, solution, soil, leaves, flowers, fruits, and roots. This has allowed the development of efficient fertilization programs aimed at obtaining high-quality fruits, thanks to the ability to make diagnoses, corrections, follow-ups, and evaluations during the season, achieving short-term impacts on the outcome of each business unit.
Given the importance of what this tool has meant for the success of many orchards, and aware that it is necessary to contribute to the sector to continue growing and adapting to new times, we provide, in this excerpt, the reference values of local, updated, and monthly information on 14 essential nutrients, obtained through the collection, systematization, and statistical analysis of nearly 1,600 leaf analyses over the last seven seasons. The characteristics of this database that allow its use as a reference for a large number of orchards are as follows:
Source: Technical Area Abud & Co.
Image: Technical Area Abud & Co.
25 Feb 2025
Predicting sweet cherry hardiness is crucial for frost management, as early spring development makes them vulnerable to late frosts.
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