On the Cover: A potato field stretching to the horizon—that’s what we like
to see on the Badger Common’Tater cover, and people, too. Fran Campbell, area manager for Oro Agri, checks a trial potato plot treated with NANOCAL, a soil-applied liquid formula that supplies potatoes with readily available, sub-micronized calcium. And it does it when they need it most, during tuber initiation and development.
8 BADGER COMMON’TATER INTERVIEW: The director of sales and marketing for Oro Agri, Riley Reynolds says the company develops and manufactures environmentally friendly, low-impact agricultural products. They include Encourage NANOCAL liquid sub-micronized calcium; PREV-AM, a three-in-one insecticide, fungicide and miticide; and ORO-RZ, a soil adjuvant. The Snowden potatoes at left in the picture are treated with NANOCAL and show greater root mass and more uniform tubers than the untreated samples at right.
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