How We Grow Life Bread Wheat - Foliar Spraying Process
- lifebreadwellness
- Jul 31
- 3 min read
Updated: Aug 20
Foliar spraying is the process of boosting wheat plants as they are flowering (heading out) with a biological nutrient mix that is topically applied. This process helps finish filling the seeds in their plant heads, so every kernel is complete. This enhances the quality of the seed and the overall yield.
Liquifying the Compost
There is a positive contribution to the soil microbiome with the use of pig manure, providing a high fungal multiplication aspect of transforming natural feed and forage, a process of pigs rooting, eating and eliminating. To run this dry product through the self-propelled sprayer, it must be converted to a liquid.
Left: The wheat on July 4th Right: mixing the dry compost with water.
1lb per acre of dry compost goes into the yellow 50-gallon cone tank, 100 gal. per sprayer tank filling. The compost gets added slowly into the water as it passes along the bottom of the cone to travel into the next white-coned tank.
Residual solids settle while the liquid compost is being pumped back into the blue trailer tank. This rich by-product is stored in totes for further use in gardens etc.
Adding Nutrients to the Liquid Compost
All 6 products are mixed in another yellow 50-gallon trailer tank, which mixes with the liquid compost to go directly into the 1200-gallon sprayer tank.
The individual mixing products include:
Full Power: fulvic acid, which enhances micronutrient uptake;
Epsom Salts: Provides magnesium (essential for chlorophyll production) and sulphur;
Essential Phos: clean phosphate (no heavy metals) that supplies energy needed for healthy plant development;
Organic Jaggery Powder (sugar cane extract): A carbon (building block of all organic matter) source supplement;
Zumsil: A source of plant-available silicon, aids in nitrogen fixation, maximizing photosynthesis, improves the availability of phosphorus, increases sugar content and boosts plant immunity;
Omega Gem Fish Fertilizer: rich fish enzymes help break down nutrients in soil. The proteins are in a natural state (strands), so are readily available to the plants.
Sprayer Filling and Field Delivery
The grey tank on the front of the sprayer is the Bio-Agtive emissions component. Diesel exhaust from the tractor enters at 400°C, where the nozzle inside the tank sprays the exhaust vapour with the biology. The spray exits at 60°C to specific pipes situated on a distribution head ahead of the sprayer nozzles.
The sprayer booms span 120’. The grey tank on the back of the sprayer holds 1200 gallons of the nutrient-rich liquids, and the small yellow tank on the back holds the Bio-Emissions biology. 1 litre per acre is dispersed to the front tank, and 4 litres per acre is dispersed to the back tank. The sprayer travels at 12 miles per hour, and 120 acres are sprayed per 1200-gallon tank. The sprayer nozzles are calibrated specifically for efficiency, consistency and timely product release.
This entire process is timely at all stages, as the products are alive and active and need to be mixed fresh, kept agitated for quality nutrient level and consistency, and to avoid a debilitating build-up in the nozzles and the tanks.
Wheat Field Inspection, 3 Weeks Later, July 25th!
Take a look at what we've found in our wheat! The crop is looking great on August 15th!
STAY TUNED FOR OUR PICTORIAL HARVEST STORY AS IT UNFOLDS!
The farmer knows what to do, for God has given him understanding… The Lord of Heaven’s Armies is a wonderful teacher and gives the farmer great wisdom. - Isaiah 28:26,29
