After foliar application, the probe showed two to three times more water use within 24 hours.
1. Yara's Crop Nutrition podcast frames Yara's Incubator Farm Network: Part 3 - Grains around a 40-acre site near Langham, Saskatchewan, focused on wheat and canola.
2. Scott Warr hosts the conversation, and Delane Manziak matters because she manages the incubator farm while starting a new Yara North America biologicals role.
3. The episode asks what Yara's complete nutrition program changes when the farm keeps the same NPKS rates but adds micronutrients and foliar products.
4. Scott says the incubator farms were started in 2019 to test production-scale ideas that can be implemented on real farms.
5. Delane says she is on her fourth day in the biologicals role and chose it because she sees innovation and opportunity in the space.
6. Scott highlights that Yara shares the incubator farm results publicly, even when the results are not positive.
7. Delane describes the 2021 season with only four-tenths of an inch of rain and wheat and canola that stayed between her ankles and knees instead of reaching her chin.
8. She says the crops died before maturity because they ran out of moisture, which made water the limiting factor rather than nutrition.
9. Scott and Delane discuss Crop Intelligence soil moisture probes and the dashboard that showed deeper roots under the Yara treatments.
10. Delane says those probe readings were not a one-off and that the same pattern has been replicated year over year.
11. She explains that the Yara Complete Nutrition Program coats the same dry fertilizer with micronutrients, so it does not add volume or force extra drill stops.
12. She says the foliar program is usually applied with herbicide so the sprayer is already moving across the field.
13. Delane says she needs about a bushel of wheat to pay for the pro coat and another bushel to pay for the foliar product.
14. She says the farm still produced three additional bushels in a dry year, which covered the treatment cost and left one bushel extra.
15. Delane says growers using the complete nutrition approach for seven or eight years report higher organic matter, evener crops, better maturity, and better standability.
16. She links deeper roots, more fibrous root structure, and improved water infiltration to the soil changes observed at the farm and in a greenhouse in Pocklington.
17. Delane also says more above-ground crop residue reduces evaporation and helps keep soils from overheating during multi-day heat events.
18. The conversation stays practical and agronomic, with Scott asking direct questions and Delane answering in farm-level language.
19. Farmers and crop advisors interested in wheat, canola, biologicals, and nutrient ROI would likely follow the discussion closely.
20. Growers looking for entertainment rather than applied agronomy or soil-water data may skip it.
