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Book Family Farm

The Book family of Borden, in southern Indiana, had always applied limestone to their fields, but then Ed Bulcher, their Growers District Manager, came along and convinced them to apply high calcium and more tons per acre. "We always used lime, but not as much as Ed preached. He really made us "limeaholics!" joked Jim.

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Foliar Feed Results

Lloyd Goebbert and his brother Lee are responsible for Goebbert's Pumpkin Patch & Goebbert's Farm & Garden Center near Hampshire, Illinois, between Chicago and Rockford. They raise some very excellent looking vegetables including tomatoes, peppers, sweet corn, and of course pumpkins. Loyd feels that foliar spraying with Growers Mineral Solutions (GMS) helps with plant health.

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South Carolina Corn Comparison Test Plots

The decision making process of a new Growers customer, culminating in comparison test plots designed by the county agent. The test was conducted accurately and properly by R&K Farms and great care was taken to keep the GMS and dry fertilizer corn plot yields completely separate. The customer was pleased with the results of using GMS and its application process.

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Quality Produce for the Pittsburgh Area

"Normally I plant pumpkins by seed. But last spring the crows tore the field out, so I had to start them in the greenhouse and then into the field. I pushed them hard with the Growers and had the finest, biggest pumpkin crop ever and absolutely no problems. They were phenomenal!... "GMS and the Growers Program are true quality, and they work! That's the key."

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PA Hay Contest Winners

Growers customers win Grand Championships with their Growers grown hay.

We are very proud of our two hay growers here in Eastern Pennsylvania who each won multiple awards at Penna Ag. Progress Days Hay Judging in August of 2008. Each of them, besides winning first place with their different entries, also won the Grand Champion Award in their respective sections.

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Kaschak's Record Corn Yield

My sister Theresa and I have a 153 acre farm near Waterford in northwest Pennsylvania. We raise corn, oats, hay, 13 Hereford beef cows, and we milk 40 Holstein Dairy cows. We also breed Registered English Shepherd pups which are sold throughout the U.S. Our web site is: http://kaschak-kennels.tripod.com/

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Second Generation Growers Man Discovers Adequate Liming

In the spring of 2010 I bought 500 tons of high calcium lime and decided to spread it on some rented land with a poor soil test. I have a 10 ton lime-litter spreader and need to have the door all the way open, or the lime will bridge and not spread correctly. And because of field conditions, I couldn't drive very fast, so, all that together, made the rate 4 tons an acre.

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