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Dealer Steve Zuber and his dad, Don, raise beef cattle on
Zuber Farms and grow their own hay and oats to feed the
herd.
Last year was the fi rst time they used AGGRAND 4-3-3
Natural Liquid Fertilizer instead of their usual 16-16-16 and
46-0-0 chemical fertilizers on their oats and hay crops. The
2009 growing season was hot and dry in Sublimity, Ore.
Altogether, the Zubers planted about 140 acres with oats
and hay. They fertilized the fi elds in early spring, using 1.5
gallons of AGGRAND 4-3-3 mixed in 33 gallons of water per
acre. Zuber said the plants came up slowly, and his dad
doubted the AGGRAND products.
“By May they started to perk up,” Zuber said. “We didn’t
have much spring rain last year.”
In late May, a hard rain fell that knocked down the plants.
“I didn’t think it (oats crop) would come up,” Zuber said.
“But it came up and we gave it a second shot of AGGRAND.”
In the second round of fertilization the Zubers applied one
gallon of AGGRAND 4-3-3 and one quart of AGGRAND
Natural Kelp and Sulfate of Potash 0-0-8 per acre. “It was
mostly dry after that,” Zuber said. “We pretty much grew
that crop with that one rain.”
At harvest time, the plants were relatively short. “We had
lots of heads,” he said. “The plants were almost more heads
than stems. We got more than we usually get on a good year.
It was some of the heaviest oats we ever grew seedwise. We
could tell when we combined it that it had a lot more weight.
We were really happy with it.”
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Zuber said he spent less than half as much on AGGRAND
fertilizers, about $4,000, as he typically spent on commercial
fertilizers.
While the elder Zuber may have been skeptical, Steve
believed in the AGGRAND fertilizers from the start.
“I’ve been using AMSOIL products for years,” Zuber said.
“I knew AMSOIL didn’t make stuff that didn’t work.”
The hay fi elds received one application of AGGRAND 4-3-3
at the same mix ratio of 1.5 gallons in 33 gallons of water.
Although conditions were less than perfect because the fi elds
were new and the season was dry, production was better than
he expected, Zuber said.
“The hay crop did pretty darn well,” he said. “It was very
close to normal. We were down only a few bales. The hay
was beautiful. It grew well without a lot of course stems.
The lack of rain is what caused us to get fewer bales. We did
real well, and I attribute that to the fertilizers. We’ll never
go back to chemical fertilizer.”
Zuber said he knows continued use of AGGRAND fertilizers
over time will continuously improve his soil as it
comes back to normal balance, and he expects greater harvests
in the future.
“I’m really impressed with AGGRAND,” Zuber said. “I’m
enthusiastic about what it’s going to do in the future. I think
it’s going to be great.”
ZUBER FARMS — Dealer Steve Zuber, along with his dad, Don,
harvest their hay crop, grown to feed their beef cattle in Sublimity,
Ore.
2009 HARVEST — Dealer Steve Zuber bales his hay crop that
was fertilized with AGGRAND 4-3-3 for the fi rst time. Zuber said
he’ll never go back to chemical fertilizers after using AGGRAND.