Why use Vitazyme, an economic example

I wanted to relate a tale of an apple trial, and then extrapolate from the results what would have been had the farmer covered his whole property.  Like they are this year! 

The statistics… 

12 year old Gala apples on M26 root stock. 

1 pint per acre of Vitazyme mixed into the normal chemical application program and applied 3 times.  First at ‘pink’, the second at ‘petal fall’ and the third at about 4 weeks after ‘petal fall’.  Of note is that the farmer could have applied another application at about 30 days prior to harvest, but did not. 

The results… 

The grower standard/check block produced a yield of 550 bushels per acre, with 23% under 2.5 inch diameter.  Producing 423.5 bushels per acre of saleable fresh fruit. 

The Vitazyme block produced a yield of 651 bushels per acre, with 9% under 2.5 inch diameter.  Producing 592 bushels per acre of saleable fresh fruit. 

Comparing a 77% pack-out vs. a 91% pack-out on a larger yield increases the saleable bushels by approximately 168.5 bushels per acre. 

The math, assumptions and economic results… 

We are using a $10.00 per bushel market price. 

Three applications on these apples increase the revenue per acre by $1685.00, with a cost per acre of only $18.00!

Over his entire farm of 130 acres the revenue increase is $219,050.00 on an investment of $2340.00!  That’s over 90 times return on investment. 

Now if we assume the market for apples was very weak that year and only commanded $8.00 per bushel we see numbers like this… 

Revenue increase per acre of $1348.00, at a cost of $18.00. Entire farm revenue increase over 130 acres of $175,240.00 on an investment of $2340.00.  A return on investment of about 75 times. 

If we assume there was a great market for Gala apples that year and the fresh fruit commanded $12.00 per bushel we would likely see this… 

Revenue increase per acre of $2,022.00.

Entire farm revenue increase of $262,860.00, for a return on investment greater than 110 times! 

As you can see at almost any realistic price for fresh fruit apples, the grower will substantially cover costs and increase revenue to the farm.  In this 130 acre farm example even at low market rates profit increase of over $170,000.00 is had. 

One of the ways in which Vitazyme  can increase your return on investment is through yield.  But yield alone will not do it every time, you also need quality.  This is where Vitayzme excels.  By increasing the size distribution of the apples to receive fresh fruit rates for 91% of the harvest vs. 77% of the harvest, you will drastically increase profits. 

Other quality measures to look for in just the apple crop (but this extends to almost any crops where quality is tied to prices) also include better coloration, faster maturation (can allow you to get to market before your neighbors for better prices), increase in pressure, and increase in brix. 

From small farm to large, the increase in profitability is hard to deny.  That is why we always encourage farmers to at least do a trial and compare for themselves, if they are reluctant to go wall-to-wall initially.  These trials inevitably show so much promise, most farmers start the whole farm regimen sooner rather than later. 

Why wait when there is extra money sitting in your fields just waiting to be harvested!

Brassinosteroids

Whenever I have the opportunity to travel with Paul Syltie, the Research Director for the manufacturer I learn something new.  Usually many things!  One of the most interesting things I learned in Ukraine with Paul was at a dinner conversation speaking about brassinosteroids. 

Brassinosteroids are a new class of growth regulator and found in optimum levels of application within Vitazyme.  There once applied to the growing plant, brassinosteroids perform many functions.  The first quick reactions are to the cell membranes and the tissue itself.  Secondary reactions are the effects on nucleic acids and their creation of secondary and tertiary enzymatic messengers signaling the plant. 

Immediately there is an increase in chlorophyll production.  An increase in chlorophyll as you know will allow the plant to better harness energy from the sun and convert that energy into the carbohydrates and sugars that power the cells and tissue growth. 

Enhanced cell reproduction and tissue enhancement follows effecting to increase tissue structure, cell wall strength, root development and stem and leaf growth rate.   

One mode of action the plant can use is to reduce drought stress.  By increasing the plants capacity to pull water from the soil through better tissue structure there will be less drought stress when compared to a non-Vitazyme plant.  This tissue strengthening effect also helps reduce lodging in cereal grains.  And will allow vegetable plants to have better structures, reducing loss from plant failure. 

Brassinosteroids possess disease-repelling properties, are effective against fungal diseases and will increase the plant’s immunity when applied at the right stage.  They cause a complex sequence of biochemical shifts, involving the activation or inhibition of key enzymatic reactions, and the induction of protein synthesis or the synthesis of anti-stress agents. 

Typically faster maturation will occur.  Plants will increase their flowering capacity, increasing seed yield.  Plants will have delayed senescence, especially important for perennial tree crops and grapes, as the delay allows the plant to longer fix carbohydrates into the tissue for better winter survivability and better re-emergence from dormancy. 

While much of that I had already learned, the fascinating part in terms of practical applications was this… brassinosteroids work best when the application rate per hectare (+/- 2.5 acres) is 20-50 micrograms!  Micrograms per hectare!  What an amazing molecular substance to be able to effect growth of a plant with such a small amount of metabolic activator actually in contact with the plant cellular structure. 

Then the best part… Vitazyme’s liter per hectare application rate provides approximately 30 micrograms of brassinosteroids!  Perfectly optimum application rate.  This in a substance formed through a fermentation process where the brassinosteroids are generated naturally as part of creating Vitazyme.  Just one reason why Vitazyme is the very best and most effective biostimulant on the market today.

Vitazyme – Becoming a Believer

There is a certain process that one goes through when introduced to Vitazyme. When you first hear about Vitazyme you are skeptical. And why shouldn’t you be? Vitazyme, you are told, is made of all natural ingredients. It is approved as an input in organic farm operations in the US. It has no genetically modified ingredients and no hormones. It is not a fertilizer. It can be applied to either the soil or to the plants. It is produced by a proprietary fermentation process. And it is inexpensive. Yet it helps plants grow, it creates higher yields and it even improves crop quality. Who wouldn’t be skeptical?

In the second stage you gain some understanding of how works and some of the mystery and disbelief starts to fade away. Vitazyme is based upon hard science. Analysis has shown that Vitazyme contains, among other things, brassinosteriods, tricontanal, glycosides and B vitamins. These ingredients, and perhaps others yet to be isolated, have been shown to produce the higher yields, better quality crops and general good health of plants that we strive for. These plant stimulants are effective at very low application levels.

Further reading explains how Vitazyme effects the naturally occurring, symbiotic relationship between plants and teeming billions of bacteria, fungi, algae, cyanobacteria, protozoa and other organisms that grow along the root surfaces (the rhizosphere). The metabolic triggers in Vitazyme trigger the Enzyme Cascade Effect. Successive tiers of enzymes are activated in plant and microbial tissues to yield a large physiological response from very little applied activator. In short, Vitazyme helps plants live up to their genetic potential.

And finally cost. In the U.S. we sell Vitazyme for approximately $70.00 per gallon. And because of the low application rate (13 ounce per acre) the cost per application is only a little about $7.00 per acre per application. We recommend two to four applications per crop year, depending upon the crop. So for apples, a high value crop, the yearly expense for Vitazyme is only about $28.00 per acre.

Home gardeners, like me, are usually less concerned about price. But we recommend using one ounce of Vitazyme per one gallon of water, so an ounce goes a long ways.

Now you have a better understanding of what Vitazyme is and how it works so some of your skepticism starts to fade away. How do you become a believer? Start using Vitazyme. I have seen Vitazyme work all over the world, on both temperate and tropical crops. Ukraine, Cuba, New Zealand, Chile to name a few countries and on farms here in the US. But most importantly I have used it on my own garden. The results I have seen and results that I have personally had have turned me into a believer.

If you are a farmer or a serious gardener try Vitazyme for yourself. But don’t say I didn’t warn you. You will become a believer.

Thanks,
Jace

Vitazyme, Some reasons why we like it so much

Over our years of experience now working with Vitazyme we have found it to be most consistent.  I am confident that if a farmer makes the applications correctly, I can always go to the fields and pull representative samples from a treated vs. non-treated area and show growth differences.  While some effects may be minute, typically the differences are great enough for the farmer to see visibly for themselves to get excited enough to measure yields and quality carefully.  In the end we always get a positive response that will translate to a positive addition to the farmers bottom line through yield and quality parameters.

The bottom line is where Vitazyme performs more consistently than any other ‘biostimulant’ on the planet, handing the farmer more dollars per acre for their investment.

There are many reasons for this consistency.  Most notable is the fact that Vitazyme has over 12 active agents that effect growth of a plant.  Most ‘biostimulants’ have only one or two active agents, and are meant to be used at specific growth stages.  For example you may find a stimulant for rooting, one for vegetative growth, one for flowering, one for ripening to add brix and color to harvests.  Each of these would only have a single mode of action and are specifically designed to effect the plant at a certain point.  Used incorrectly and you get no response.

Vitazyme with its multiple modes of action, can be used at any point in the growth of a crop, and will effect the growth point of that crop at application and beyond.  This makes Vitazyme much more versatile to use of course, and more effective.

Another reason Vitazyme effects the bottom line so much is that it can be applied mixed with any herbicide, pesticide, fungicide, or fertilizer to reduce application costs.  We always tell farmers to add Vitazyme to the spray rig when you are doing another application.  That way you add no extra application costs to use Vitazyme, just a little time to put it in the tank.

I have heard of ‘biostimulants’ that need to be applied at certain temperatures, so farmers have rigged up their spray rigs to heat the tank with a propane burner and keep the liquid at a certain temperature.  I cannot think of a more difficult way of adding a biostimulant to your input mix.  Vitazyme is easily used, with the only restriction being to use it when the soil has moisture.  That is it.

Most of our application recommendations are designed to be symbiotic with typical application timing of other products that make up the standard input package for a specific crop.  Please see the ‘Vitazyme Program’ in our brochures section for a general idea of application timing, per crop type.

All of this and more allow us to be completely confident in saying that ‘Vitazyme will always have a positive effect on your bottom line when used as recommended’.

In the future I will be writing more about how Vitazyme works, more of our experiences working with this fine product around the world as well as sharing some pictures and experiences from the places we travel to.

Our involvement with Vitazyme started…

Locally here in upstate NY.  My uncle is a crop consultant who represents a small line of specific inputs for agriculture.  He had been working with Vitazyme since 1995 and found it to be a very consistent and beneficial input for all agriculture.  He suggested we try some in our business, which is really in the aesthetics business in regards to plants.  We were not sure how an agriculture product could benefit us.  We don’t grow plants for sale or harvest, in fact we don’t really want our plants to grow much anyway as we are maintainers of plants not growers.  The answer we were told had to do with the look of the plant and the extended life before replacement.  Both very important in what we do.  So we tried a test.

We maintain a mall locally and decided to treat ½ of it with Vitazyme and ½ left as our control.  Everything else in terms of fertilization, watering and care were the same.  In a remarkably short time we were able to discern remarkable differences.  One side was much greener, had less replacements, and the plants generally looked healthier versus the control side.  There was excellent leaf development and less stretching of plants on the Vitazyme side.  In short we had seen exactly what we would like to see for our plants.

From there we developed a program to add Vitazyme into our fertilization program in a cost-effective way.  At that time we were offered an opportunity to help market and promote Vitazyme use and sale.  There were a few people who were marketing it in the States and a couple who had taken the product abroad internationally. 

As we had no connections to farmers locally and the interiorscape industry where we did have contacts is so small we decided internationally was the way to go.  Both my father and I have degrees in business management, and we have both traveled outside of the States, so we felt comfortable venturing into the international arena.  My father had the great idea of looking toward Ukraine as a place to start.  Maybe it was just for the challenge of a non-English speaking area, but I think more so on Ukraine’s reputation as the ‘breadbasket of Europe’ and their very large area of agricultural production. 

Through some great research and networking we were able to find a guy in Ukraine who is an American already networked into Ukrainian agriculture.  Soon Paul became our partner and organized a trip for us to Kyiv and a large Ag show to prospect for distributors and gauge the reaction to this American product.  Well, to make a long story short (and one that can be told a different day) we now have a master distributor who sells direct to farmers and also through 3 regional distributors.  A research station doing extensive research on winter wheat, winter canola, sugar beets, barley, sunflower and corn.  We are working with some of Ukraine’s leading growers and companies to expand usage and knowledge of Vitazyme throughout Ukraine. 

With 36 million arable hectares we have a long way to go, but we are starting to get volume up to good levels.  We are continually learning not only about Ukraine customs and business, but also about the agricultural systems technology and crops grown there, as well as worldwide shipping procedures, and import customs regulations.  I even have been studying Russian in order to be able to better communicate and be more independent while traveling there (as well as the excellent brain exercise). 

The experience has been invaluable as we have started to move forward in other areas of the world.  We decided to move toward the Southern Hemisphere as an attempt to have year-round sales with opposite growing seasons to ours.  First was New Zealand, where we now have established distribution.  Then Australia where we are finalizing our import permit, the last step before distribution.  Also in Chile we are close to finalizing a distribution agreement for full-scale launch for the 2010-2011 growing season. 

We have other areas where there are trials under way like Columbia, Philippines, Brazil, South Africa and Ghana.  And developments from our work in Ukraine are taking us to the eastern European arena and beyond.  All of which has been extremely exciting and challenging, and also brought us new talents and abilities as we continually learn about Vitazyme and worldwide agriculture. 

Recently we have opened up our web-site and offices to local US retail sales.  So it is nice to be able to offer Vitazyme here now as well. 

We would like to invite you to keep reading on as we add to our travels and entries.  I will try to do a few catch-up entries as recently we were in Chile, then Ukraine, then New Zealand and Australia.  Seems like I have not seen much of our summer here in New York (though it has not been much of one I am told).  We will try to post pictures as well from our travels and pass along information learned from our experiences with Vitazyme.  Both me and my father John will be making entries in the future.  I encourage you to read along. 

Thanks for reading!  Mike Hudak