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Why Growers Are Replacing AMS with Growthful: A Smarter Approach to Irrigation Water and Soil Chemistry
For decades, ammonium sulfate (AMS) has been a go-to tool for growers looking to manage water pH and improve nutrient availability. It’s familiar, widely used, and often considered essential in spray programs. But today, more growers are asking a simple question: Is...
Why Growers Are Replacing AMS with Growthful: A Smarter Approach to Irrigation Water and Soil Chemistry
For decades, ammonium sulfate (AMS) has been a go-to tool for growers looking to manage water pH and improve nutrient availability. It’s familiar, widely used, and often considered essential in spray programs. But today, more growers are asking a simple question: Is there a better way? The Problem with AMS AMS works by forcing pH down through salts. While this can help acidify water, it comes with trade-offs that are often overlooked. As shown in the comparison, AMS: Adds unnecessary nitrogen...
Why Growers Are Replacing AMS with Growthful: A Smarter Approach to Irrigation Water and Soil Chemistry
For decades, ammonium sulfate (AMS) has been a go-to tool for growers looking to manage water pH and improve nutrient availability. It’s familiar, widely used, and often considered essential in spray programs. But today, more growers are asking a simple question: Is there a better way? The Problem with AMS AMS works by forcing pH down through salts. While this can help acidify water, it comes with trade-offs that are often overlooked. As shown in the comparison, AMS: Adds unnecessary nitrogen...
Oakland Urban Growers – Growing Vegetable Profits
Lettuce is a great leafy green to grow because it develops quickly, produces over a long period of time, and isn’t too demanding as long as it's sufficiently watered. It can...
Meet Growthful!
Introducing Growthful, an auxiliary soil amendment that can help you optimize soil conditions for improved plant growth—and can easily be added to your current application methods.
Record Breaking Harvests: Valley Farms
Valley Farms - located in Imlay City, MI - is dedicated to providing fresh, quality produce. When they ran into difficulties finding their usual soil amendment they...
Increasing Tomato Yields – A Case Study
Here at Aqueus, we thoroughly test the efficacy of our products before suggesting them for any specific crop. We had already obtained plenty of research on how...
What is Nutrient Uptake?
Nutrient uptake is the process in which plants obtain the nutrients they need from the soil. Plants need to achieve homeostasis to thrive, meaning if the soil is nutrient...
Maximizing Soybean Profits – Walton Farms
The United States is the world's leading soybean producer and the second-leading exporter with soybeans comprising about 90 percent of U.S. oilseed production. However, in...
Understanding Soil pH
If you want your garden or landscape to look its best, it's important to give your plants what they need to thrive. One important aspect of plant health is the pH of the...
Nebraska Potato Grower – Growing Your Potato Profits
U.S. potato outputs were down 2% in 2021 compared to 2020 with yields in a similar decline. Despite this, more land was used for planting and harvesting. With the cost of...
What are Soil Amendments?
Soil amendments are substances added to soil to improve its physical properties such as permeability, water infiltration and retention, drainage, aeration and structure. The...
Using Growthful Post-Emerge to Help Grow Corn Profits
Corn is the largest grown crop in the U.S. with multiple different end uses—livestock feed, ethanol production, and human consumption. Needless to say corn is high in...
Basic Plant Nutrition: What Your Plants Require and How to Identify Deficiencies
There are three key nutrients essential for plant health and growth: nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (or potash). These are the elements typically in short supply in...
Michigan Sugar Company’s Growthful Test Results
The United States is home to the world's largest and most diverse sweetener market and since the mid-2000s, sugar beets have accounted for between 55 and 60 percent of sugar...
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Growthful is formulated to be applied before planting, in furrow and or in a spray program. Growthful™ mixes well with fungicides and pesticides and should be applied with every application. For best results, apply Growthful™ in every tank, every time.
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