Efficient Foliar Nutrition for Quality Crop

In horticulture, every input must count. Tow and Fert provides growers with a flexible platform to apply fertilisers, compost teas, fish hydrolysates, and trace elements together in one pass. Low-pressure spraying preserves beneficial microbes, while foliar absorption improves efficiency. By reducing tractor passes and maximising nutrient uptake, growers improve yield, fruit quality, and soil health with fewer inputs.

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Growers choose Tow and Fert for many reasons from versatility to superior biological delivery capabilities

Versatility

Apply foliar fertilisers, compost teas, seaweed, fish and trace minerals in one pass.

Flexible Timing

Foliar inputs work rain or shine, absorbed immediately through the leaf.

Protect Biology

Low-pressure spraying keeps microbes in compost teas and bio-inputs alive.

Reduce Tractor Passes

Combine multiple applications, cutting labour and fuel costs.

Horticulture & Crop with Tow and Fert

Versatility

Tow and Fert gives cropping and horticulture growers a single, flexible platform for a wide range of liquid and suspension inputs. You can apply foliar fertilisers, compost teas, seaweed, fish hydrolysate and trace minerals together in one calibrated pass, targeting the foliage when plants can use nutrients most efficiently. Foliar delivery bypasses soil lock‑up and leaching, so more of what you pay for actually reaches the crop, supporting yield and quality even when soil conditions are limiting.

This versatility really shows up at key growth stages: you can tank‑mix nutrients with compatible crop protection products to correct deficiencies, push flowering or fruit set, and support finish in high‑value crops without extra runs across the paddock. For diversified operations running vegetables, arable and permanent crops side by side, one Tow and Fert unit can service multiple programmes, simplifying logistics while keeping options open as the season changes.

Flexible timing

Tow and Fert foliar applications let you respond to what the crop is telling you, not just what the calendar says. Nutrients applied to the leaf enter directly through the cuticle and stomata, giving a fast response even when cold, wet or compacted soils slow root uptake. That means you can keep crops moving through cool shoulder seasons, or step in quickly when tissue tests flag a deficiency at a sensitive growth stage. Because rates are lower and uptake efficiency is higher than many soil‑applied fertilisers, you can fine‑tune dose and frequency without overloading the system or risking leaching losses.

Adding compost into sprayer

Protect biology

Tow and Fert is designed to handle living inputs such as compost teas and biological inoculants without beating them up.Whether you’re adding compost straight into the sprayer thanks to the Tow and Ferts extraction features, or applying teas – low‑shear, low‑pressure spraying helps maintain microbial viability so more bacteria, fungi and protozoa actually reach the leaf and soil surface alive, where they can colonise and support plant health. Research on compost teas shows that protecting these organisms during brewing and application is critical if you want benefits like improved nutrient cycling, disease suppression and better soil structure. With Tow and Fert, you can integrate these bio‑inputs alongside foliar nutrients and biostimulants, reinforcing the soil food web rather than undermining it with harsh application methods. That is particularly valuable in horticulture and intensive cropping systems where soil life is under pressure from frequent traffic and cultivation, but where a resilient biological base is key to long‑term productivity and reduced reliance on hard chemistry.

Reduce tractor passes

Tow and Fert allows you to combine multiple jobs into a single, precise pass across the paddock. By applying foliar nutrients, trace elements and compatible crop protection products together, you cut down on separate fertiliser, spray and top‑up runs that burn diesel and labour hours. Fewer passes mean lower fuel consumption and wear, delivering significant cost savings over a season. Just as importantly for cropping and hort, every avoided pass reduces wheel traffic and soil compaction, helping protect pore space, infiltration and root growth that underpin yield potential. You can also run Tow and Fert as a nurse wagon at seeding, supplying liquid nutrients and biologicals directly to the planter so establishment nutrition and biology go on in the same pass as sowing, instead of in extra pre‑ or post‑emergence trips. When paired with guidance and good implement setup, running a Tow and Fert instead of multiple machines also trims overlap, cutting product wastage and the risk of hot spots in sensitive crops.

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Mix Examples

Tow and Fert mixes can be as simple or as complex as you require, below are some common inputs and uses

Inputs

Fertiliser: Urea, UAN, DAP, SOA, Elemental S, MOP, Gibberellic Acid, Effluent, Fine Phosphate Rock & DCP Powder, Trace elements Biological: Humates/carbon, Humic & Fulvic acid, Biologicals, Seaweed, Fish Hydrolysates, Compost teas & extracts Multi-species mixes: Over-sow chicory, Plantain, Clover, Turnips, Rape

Other Uses

Fire Fighting Pressure Washing/Washdown Trough Emptying/Cleaning Culvert Clearing Milk Powder Mixing Hydro-seeding Fertigation/Feeding Dosing Pumps for Pivot Irrigation Compost Slurries/Extracts

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