The Autumn Feed: Key Nutrients for Crop Resilience and Yield
With the planting of winter crops well under way across the country for the 2026 harvest, getting nutrition right early is key to strong establishment in order to get the crop off to the best possible start.
Autumn nitrogen can be hit and miss. Wet conditions and cooler soils means losses are high and uptake is low. Lono Plus is a unique form of stabilised Amine Nitrogen which changes that!
Lono Plus is powered by unique LimiN chemistry developed by Levity to hold the form as amine - ensuring most of the N ends up within the crop, giving good cytokinetic growth with small inputs.
When plants feed on amine nitrogen, cytokinin hormone levels increase. This encourages more bushy plants with more root branching and greater production of flowers and fruit.
What farmers are seeing:
- More even growth through autumn
- Short, bushier plants
- Stronger rooting and tillering
- Reduced N losses through leaching and volatilisation
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Phosphorous is a vital nutrient for root development and energy transfer, but once soils cool down, much of it gets locked up and unavailable. Phos-star is designed to fix that problem.
With highly available phosphorous and organic acids, Phos-star heps roots grow deeper into the soil, build energy, and establish faster - even in challenging autumn conditions.
This is a picture we took last year while inspecting a field of Winter Oilseed Rape which displays very strong overground growth but very poor rooting. This plant is effectively on stilettos and not well anchored.
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Getting nutrition right in autumn sets the tone for the entire growing season. Strong rooting, good tillering, and early plant health all depend on having the correct nutrients available when the crop needs them most.
Once the winter sets in, growth slows and there’s little chance to correct early deficiencies - so investing in balanced autumn nutrition pays off with better spring growth, improved nutrient efficiency, and higher yield potential.
