Traditional soil-applied fertilizers often face nutrient lock-up, reducing availability to plants. But when you apply biologicals as a foliar spray with liquid inputs, you bypass soil limitations and deliver direct, immediate nutrient absorption, leading to higher efficiency, stronger yields, and reduced nitrogen dependency. The inputs have to be microbially friendly because biologicals are alive with beneficial microbes.
Why Foliar Application Outperforms Soil-Based Nutrients
Not all foliar applications work the same. Spraying a nutrient on your seedlings isn’t as effective when there isn’t a strong microbial community that boosts your nutrient cycling efficiency. That biology makes nutrient intake much more efficient. We recommend LiquiLife+ as a foliar soil amendment because it works with your fertility inputs. You can put LiquiLife+ directly in your sprayer in place of water.
The biology immediately goes to work on converting inputs into plant-available forms. By themselves, nutrients take a substantial amount of time to make it into your plant’s vascular system. Biologicals speed up that process considerably. Microbes help with seed germination, plant protection, plant health, nutrient uptake, yield potential, and crop residue management.
Why Do We Recommend LiquiLife+ to Our Clients?
Direct Nutrient Uptake: LiquiLife+’s foliar application with inputs delivers copper, nitrogen, and microbial activity straight into the plant’s vascular system, ensuring rapid absorption and immediate physiological benefits.
Avoids Soil Fixation Issues: Unlike soil-applied nutrients that can bind with organic matter or clay, foliar LiquiLife+ ensures consistent delivery, regardless of soil composition.
Enhanced Disease Resistance: Copper plays a major role in fungal suppression. Foliar LiquiLife+ optimizes copper uptake, reinforcing plant immune systems without toxicity risks associated with excess soil-applied copper.
Reduced Environmental Impact: Soil-applied copper can leach into water systems, potentially harming aquatic life. Foliar LiquiLife+ minimizes runoff risks, making it a more sustainable option for row crop farmers.
How Does LiquiLife+ Fit into the ST Biologicals Process?
We focus on regenerative agriculture, emphasizing biological inputs for improved soil health and crop resilience. Partnering with BIOACTIVE, the producer of LiquiLife+, has added a product to our crop management toolkit that is a cost-effective way to add biology to fertility programs. Microbial inoculants enhance nutrient cycling and disease resistance. You can explore more about our approach to biologicals in farming here, and check out our field trial results showcasing profitability improvements here.
Stronger Crops, Cost-Effective Inputs with Biologicals
You can lower the quantity of your fertilizer inputs when you let microbes do much of the work for you. With lower fertilizer costs and enhanced microbial activity, you can improve yield, sustainability, and overall farm profitability.
Want to learn more? At ST Biologicals, we have been helping farmers convert from conventional to regenerative ag practices for the past 7 years. Our team has decades of ag experience, and we all grew up on farms. We know your ag problems because we’ve faced them ourselves. Contact us and find out how biologicals can enhance your farm profits. We’re here to help you succeed. When soil speaks, we listen.
