# Balanced Nutrition K-Forte, Increasing Dry Matter & Keeping Quality for Your Bottom Line Dollars

- Link: https://rd2.co.nz/trial/balanced-nutrition-k-forte-increasing-dry-matter-keeping-quality-for-your-bottom-line-dollars/
- Published: 2019-09-08T09:20:55+00:00
- Author: rsf_admin

Balanced nutrition plays a major role, if not the biggest role, in the production
of quality produce. The aim of the grower should always be to optimize fertilizer
practices, with consideration to cost, efficacy and environmental impacts.

Improper nutrition can impact on other issues within an orchard such as keeping 
quality, disease and pest levels, which work out far more expensive than properly
timed applications of quality fertilizers that are systemic and have no residues.

A range of products, including K-Forte, Biomin Calcium and Bio-Size, were trialled
to test their efficacy on a number of variables including fruit sizing, fruitlet
Calcium levels, pitting / keeping quality, fruit nutrient levels and also dry matter.

[View full report here.](https://rd2.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Balanced-Nutrition-K-Forte-Increasing-Dry-Matter-Keeping-Quality-for-Your-Bottom-Line-Dollars-1.pdf)