Growers Mineral Solutions (GMS)

Established in 1955 in Milan, OH.

A foliar plant food that is quickly absorbed into the plant which means there is little if any, nutrient run off.

Designed to be non-toxic to plants and animals.

Best quality minerals and ingredients used. Least possible heavy Metal content.

Recommended application rate is 2 gallons/acre per spraying for hay and pastures, rates for other crops are available.

GMS is very competitive and saves nutrient input money.

Has improved true protein content of plants and grains.

We are representatives for Growers Mineral Solutions for the North-Eastern Indiana area. Contact us for a FREE consultation and recommendation.

 

Our Experience with Growers:

Growers Mineral Solutions has been a significant help to our farming operations.


The Growers Program solved many problems we feel had their roots in conventional agricultural practices previously used on our farm .


We purchased part of a farm that had been operated conventionally for decades, with no apparent regard for the soil. Our soil is a very heavy, high magnesium clay with a thick blue smack clay layer approximately three feet down. When we bought it, the former renter had harvested the crop when it was very wet, leaving ruts that were over a foot deep in many places. We, in turn, rented the fields for corn for a couple years. We then planted them into an alfalfa/grass hay/pasture mix with oats as a cover crop. When the oats came up so did the Canadian thistle. It was so bad that we were told to cut the thistle before it went to seed or we would be fined for noxious weeds. When I tried to use my heavy duty weed eater to cut the thistle I was unable to do so as the stems were very strong, the plants were tall and in dense thickets. I hired a combine to cut the oats early, which solved the problem temporarily. When the hay field started growing again, the thistles grew faster than the hay. I noticed that there were large areas of my ten acre field where the alfalfa did not even sprout, and the hay/grass only grew about six inches tall for the entire year. Other areas of this field grew well, with good alfalfa/grass height and volume. There were large clumps of thistle over much of the field. Other parts of the field were very wet and didn't drain. These areas stayed wet nearly the entire year. There was a LOT of foxtail and moss, with lots of bare soil in between grass clumps, over the entire field. The area my wife picked for the garden was so bad it wouldn't even grow weeds or moss.


I had read Organic Gardening, and other such magazines, since I was a kid. They always said to add organic matter, grow green manure cover crops, double dig, etc.. They didn't know totally why this helped, just that it did. These options would work on a garden scale, but I didn't even want to think about doing it on a farm scale. After looking at these problems for a while, and trying to figure out what to do to fix them, I went to the local farm Co-Op and asked them. They recommended 12-12-12 at a certain rate. I bought half a car-hauler trailer load and applied it to my fields. Then I waited... and waited... and waited..., and got ZERO response after all that expense and effort. I would have had just as good results if I took my money, put it in a blender, and poured it on the fields.


That winter we went to our local farm show. As we were walking down the aisle I noticed a booth that had a chart about plant growth posted prominently. On the left side it showed a very stunted plant, with poor root growth; on the right, the plant shown was lush with long, strong and dense roots. The Caption asked, “what is the difference?” Then it stated CALCIUM. I stopped abruptly, nearly yanking my wife's arm out, and said we need to talk to this guy. Her response was “they're all the same, let's go”. I said NO we NEED to talk to this guy!!


As we talked to Ed Bulcher, the Growers district manager, he explained why the things Organic Gardening recommended worked. He discussed soil structure, the fallacies and shortcomings of the pH test, the processes that plants and soil microbial life use to enhance plant growth, the damage conventional agricultural practices cause and the soil amendments needed to correct these problems. He said that the main problem is that Calcium is depleted by using conventional fertilizers, and unless we stop using dry NPK, switch to a complete foliar fertilizer, AND PUT ON SUFFICIENT HIGH CALCIUM LIME, we would not be able to correct the root causes of our many problems. We met with him several weeks later and he went over the program in more detail, answering ALL of my questions with information that finally made sense. This information also meshed perfectly with correct principles I had learned in other areas, tying them all together for the first time.

We started doing the GROWERS SOIL PROGRAM as he outlined it. Over time, we discovered that the more closely we adhered to his recommendations the better things worked on Our Farm, and our soil, crop, and animal problems decreased significantly. We were so impressed with the results that we became representatives for Growers Mineral Solutions. 

WE TALK TO EVERYONE WHO IS INTERESTED IN:


INCREASED PROFITABILITY

SAVING $

IMPROVING SOIL HEALTH

REDUCING SOIL EROSION

ELIMINATING WET SPOTS WITHOUT TILING

HAVE FIELDS DRY EARLIER IN THE SPRING

PLOW MORE EASILY, WITH LESS COMPACTION

GREATLY REDUCE NUTRIENT RUN OFF

REDUCE FERTILIZER AND HERBICIDE RATES & COSTS

INCREASE CROP YIELDS & TRUE PROTEIN LEVELS

REDUCE WEEDS

REDUCE INSECT DAMAGE

IMPROVE PLANT WEATHER TOLERANCE

AND ON AND ON.....


LIVESTOCK IMPROVEMENTS WERE ALSO DRAMATIC:

INCREASED BREED BACK RATES

STRONGER NEWBORNS

BETTER RATE OF GAIN ON LESS FEED

BETTER DISPOSITIONS

BETTER STRESS TOLERANCE

FEWER VET BILLS

SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION OF MANURE PHOSPHATE LEVELS

SEE OUR GROWERS MINERAL PAGE FOR MORE ANIMAL DETAILS

AND ON AND ON...

 

 

www.growersnutritional.com   Link to Growers Nutritional Solutions.