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R3Plant™ Recovery
Soyfx™ Seedcoat
R3Plant™ comes in Soyfx™ seed coat and resides in your plant as an additional line of defense when hail damages your crops. Seed coat application in Soyfx is the most effect means of incorporating the biologicals into the plant. It doesn't require a post damage pass across the field and it begins growing immediately after the event with no lag time while the field dries.
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R3Plant recovery s designed to reinvigorate legumes post damage. It has the capability of causing plants to regrow even if broken at ground level. Adequate water is necessary to achieve maximum results.
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Hail damage to soybeans is a major contributor to soybean crop losses and crop insurance payouts from these losses. Soybean plants typically grow from the tips of the shoots (Apical Growth). When hail hits the soybean plants, it breaks off the growing tops of shoots and stems. In the process, it breaks apical dominance causing the plant to form multiple lateral (side or meristematic) shoots. These numerous new shoots produce few full size pods that reach maturity, thus resulting in dramatically reduced yields. The failure of such soybean crops to produce even moderate yields due to this damage is the basis for extensive insurance claims.
R3Plant™ is a microbial-based biostimulant product from Agrovive™ that in multiple field studies has demonstrated the consistent ability to promote regrowth of hail-damaged soybeans. R3Plant™ stimulates a regeneration of the original damaged stalk at the wound, resulting in normal soybean plant branching and canopy formation. This regrowth allows for soybean yields that have greatly improved yields over untreated crops. The product offers a unique opportunity to increase crop yields following hail damage, and also to influence crop insurance claims and losses. The value of soybeans harvested from R3Plant™ treated soybeans after hail damage have exceeded the caps set for soybean crop insurance payouts as established by USDA Risk Management Agency.
Benefits of this product include reduced yield loss, increased return on investment by soybean growers, as well as reduced payout and greater profits to insurance providers and insurance underwriters. Confirmation of the benefits of R3Plant™ under actual grower field conditions would undoubtedly lead to the routine use of this product to 1) reduce the number of crop loss claims, 2) increase the financial return to growers from larger yields, as compared to payments from insurance claims, and 3) soybean growers may be able to obtain lower cost hail insurance by reducing the risk of crop loss from hail damage.
Trim it Proudly
Placement of the trial is helpful. Even if you are convinced that you need to put the trial over the hill where your neighbors can't see it, please pout it near the road so you can find it easily later. A ribbon on the fence or better yet a big flag in the field would be appreciated.
2017 Field Results
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2017
We provided several thousand acres of product for use in South Dakota after a hail event in Hamlin and Codington Counties. The results were monitored by the farm operators and only anecdotal yield results were provided.
This year provided Agrovive with a baseline of data that the yields exceed the insured payout for the acres treated.
The exceptional result of this trial was that we discovered under normal circumstances a plant treated with R3Plant after a hail event caused the plant to regrow from the scar callus rather than from the node below the damage which is how the plant would have normally responded. This is significant as this is the only product known that promotes this method of regrowth.
Typical regrowth from a damage event to a soybean plant is by loss of apical dominance, which is what happens when you remove the top growing material and the lower branches grow to replace the plants typical upward growth from the tip.
This was the first use of the product post damage and the mechanism for regrowth was the focus rather than harvest and yield data in South Dakota.
2018 Field Results
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The last year of trial was utilized to determine yield effect and regulation of biochemical processes in the plants under hail event stress.
The trials utilized a cutting effect of both “mower” style sharp edge rapid excision technique and a “weed eater” string brush cutter method to simulate damage and to determine if an ROS stress response associated with a true hail event had an effect on plant regrowth.
The plants cut by “clean” excision did not grow back and proved the effect of an ROS stress response signal in the plant to impact the regrowth using R3Plant product.
The plants cut by “weed eater” cutting method caused an ROS signaling stress response that better simulated actual hail damage caused a regrowth response from the scar callus on the soybean plants.
The yields attained by the cut then treated plants were in excess of the uncut untreated plants on both trials in South Dakota.
The first field was cut with a string brush cutter the second week of July 2018 . This field was located in South Eastern South Dakota and had excess moisture. The plants were cut to within 3.5 inches of the ground. The lowest node was all that was left of the plants. The first field was sampled in multiple locations within the field and samples were then averaged with 5 replicated samples per segment. The untreated and left uncut control had an average result of 65.7 bushels per acre. The uncut treated plants had an average yield result of 67.24 and 64.67 in each of the two test areas. The cut and treated area had an average estimated yield of 69.23 which is an increase of 3.53 bushels per acre when compared to the untreated an uncut area of the field. This is a astonishing recovery of the plants.
The second field was also located in South Eastern South Dakota in an area with excess moisture. See Figure 3. The field was cut with a stringed brush cutter to within 3.5 inches of the ground leaving only the lowest node on the stem on the plant. The field was then treated after the destruction event. The cut area was treated with R3Plant and a corresponding uncut area was treated with R3Plant at the same time. The majority of the field was left uncut and untreated. The control area which was uncut and untreated had a sampled yield of 79.44 bushels per acre, which was a yield that was consistent with the historical yield of the field. The uncut treated area of the field had a sampled yield of 84.51 bushels per acre which demonstrated that the product by itself is effective at causing an increase in overall yield. The cut and then treated portion of the field had a sampled yield of 85.25 bushel per acre. This result in the destruct and treated portion of the field shows that the product is effective in plant regeneration and yield stabilization following a destructive event resulting in loss of nearly the entire stem and foliage of the plant.
We were given a unique opportunity to monitor real world results in Central South Dakota in a field we were conducting a large-scale early application trial on. The field had been foliar treated with an early application soybean product that contained the R3Plant bacteria. The field was hit on one half by a hailstorm that was assessed at 24% loss post harvest. We were fortunate in that our trial was on the half impacted by the storm and the control was not impacted by the localized hail event. The historic yield of the field is 57 bushel per acre. The samples were derived by mechanical combine harvest at the end of the season and are true representation of the yield of the field studied.
The control section of the field had an average yield determined by weigh wagon of 50.93 bushels per acre. The early foliar treated section of the field, which was damaged but not destroyed by the hail event had an average of 56.37 bushels per acre by true weight and measured by mechanical combine harvest. This was a 5.44 bushel per acre increase over control in the field with an assessed loss of 24% left as determined by insurance adjustor after harvest. See Figure 4.
PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE
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Benefits to the Plants
R3Plant Microbes were selected to allow a legume to recover from traumatic damage by re-establishing apical dominance
1. A proprietary group of bacteria have been harnessed allowing a legume to restore growth from a damaged stem wound, thus allowing apical dominance to reestablish in the stem for further growth from the original stem.
2. The use of these bacteria was partnered with the SoyFX seed coating product, that responds to stress hormones being produced by all the remaining plants in the field and permits the plant to recover a full canopy and potentially greater yield than if the plant had not been damaged.
3. Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) microbes are contained in the microbial mixture in a supporting role to assist in the movement of nutrients from the large root mass to the emerging plant tissues.
4. pH regulating systems facilitated by the microbes allow the plant to regulate the daily cycle of rest during daylight. This can include the inability to transfer electrons in critical processes to allow the plants to mature faster with the bank of nutrition stored in the roots.
5. The plants are able to regenerate lost tissues faster due to the large bank of nutrition available in the root mass and establish a yield that has greater potential than a replanted seed that has to establish new roots and a accumulate the necessary nutrient sink to fill beans with the limited remaining time until killing frost.
Morphological response
1. Treated plants will regrow from the stem wound rather than making new lateral branches become the new stem and forcing the nutrition and water through the restricted vascularization not meant to pass that much material.
2. The biggest impact of the product if applied as a seed coat is the ability to recover and stimulate growth when the crop is damaged, but not destroyed.
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2020 Hail Storm Recovery
Complete devastation to the field. Plants are broken off at ground level and flooded for over a week. One side of Road is Treated and regrew and the other side of the road is untreated and only the weeds and volunteer corn came back.
The treated Field Starts to Regrow
The field has begun to grow back with vigor and pods forming
The untreated Field Gets Turned Black
Total Loss
Another field shows the treat line well
A 24 Bushel Yield makes a lot more sense than a black field
Second visit to field above
Get your plants to regrow after damage don't turn the field.
Plants from both treated and untreated sides of the field
A 24 Bushel Yield makes a lot more sense than a black field