All about plant growth hormones
All hormones are proteins but not all proteins are hormones. That’s what we learnt from our biochemistry class. We all know the function of proteins in plants and animals. Hormones make things happen. Plant growth hormones are produced by ALL crops at different stages of their growth cycle. You can think plant hormones as the […]
Macro-nutrients vs Micro-nutrients – what’s the difference anyways
Macro – does not mean more important. Think of macro and micro nutrients as the ‘food’ and ‘multivitamins’ respectively that the plant needs to grow. As humans, we need adequate amount of food to help with our metabolic processes. The multivitamins are important as well. Plants are like humans in this regard. Macro nutrients are […]
Crop Science – a lot has changed
Crop growing has changed considerably since our grandparent’s homestead. Gone are the days where crop growers seed a crop and come back in at harvest to combine. We now know much more about soil health via soil testing, crop health via tissues sampling and the use of advanced sensing measurements such as the Normalised Difference […]