There is a French saying that “high-quality wine is made in the vineyard”!!!
For this reason, the vine/wine roads project visited France to meet 3 experience guys.
– Mr. Olivier Prévoteau, vine grower and Manager of the company EARL Prévoteau in the communes Jarnac and Foussignac
– Mr. Thierry Angerraud, Operating Advisor in Jarnac, Charente for more than thirty years.
– Mrs. Isabelle Cirou, an experienced agronomist of COMPO EXPERT France
The three of them had an excellent conversation about the best fertilization programs and products they suggest in order to avoid nutrient deficiencies during the critical stages of the crop and the complementary product named Basfoliar® Rhizo Bio SL containing technology of Ecklonia maxima algae and microorganisms such as Bacillus amyloliquefaciens.
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Enjoy!!!
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Hello, my name is Olivier Prévoteau…
manager of the company EARL Prévoteau in the communes Jarnac and Foussignac.
I am a vine grower
on about sixty hectares of vines(UgniBlanc)…
about forty in grove soil,
a light calcareous soil…
and about twenty on Dutch soil,
which is a little deeper. On
in all these, we have organo-mineral fertilization.
and on the great part,
we make a complement with NovaTec®…
which allows me to bring in
some mineral fertilizer.
Because with the organominerals
I gain about forty units…
and I realized that I had a small lack…
so there, with the NovaTec®,
it allows me to complete this lack.
We apply it in the spring…
and it is released slowly
throughout the season.
Now with the NovaTec®, we
have a thousand-liter container.
It is lifted with a telescopic handler
on a mixing tank.
It is prepared for the personnel
of the company.
It is very safe
because there is no powder dusting.
We can have just the volume
and then no bag canister to handle.
So we are very convinced with NovaTec®.
At the end of the thousand-liter tank,
we will say no problem…
no residues in the big containers,
always a little bit at the bottom…
but nothing to worry about.
We go to the bottom of the container
and we get this.
It could be the only small flaw,
but otherwise no residues.
It is very easy to use.
Hello, my name is Thierry Angerraud…
Operating Advisor in Jarnac, Charente
for more than thirty years.
For two years, we have had
a slightly different approach.
to fertilization than usual.
We are trying to implement
the NovaTec® Fluid Fe Max…
that has a base of Iron Chelate,
more nitrogen…
with slow-release in time.
The approach is simple.
It is to bring iron,
because we have a chlorine sector…
with a more nitrogenous one…
because we realize that in the region,
people put forty-fifty units in nitrogen…
and that it was limit
to go to seek volume.
The fact of bringing in
the associated nitrogen…
limits the number of passages…
so we make more than one
passage every two…
and we bring nitrogen which is released
until the end of flowering…
when the vineyard
needs the most nitrogen.
This is the argument.
In this passage, iron, and nitrogen
are brought
in addition, with this liberating
effect in the progressive time
Isabelle Cirou of COMPO EXPERT France
To have a good efficiency of this
product, NovaTec® Fluid Fe Max…
It was also necessary to ensure…
and that’s why we developed another complementary
product and that’s why we developed
another product is complimentary…
to NovaTec® Fluid Fe Max,
the Basfoliar® Rhizo Bio
It has two technologies,
one technology algae, Ecklonia maxima…
the second technology is
a micro-organism…
Bacillus amyloliquefaciens.
So, there is a complementarity
with these two products…
since we will develop the root system…
therefore, assuring a good
possibility of absorption of elements…
but of water as well.
Αlso thanks to the Bacillus
amyloliquefaciens…
we will have better bioavailability
of the elements…
that will give the vine plants a good nutrition
without induced deficiencies…
and thus being a guarantee of a
good result and a good quality
and quantity of harvest.