Troforté Farming System
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Welcome to the Troforté Farming System
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Leader in Soil Health and high performance Innovative Agriculture
The Troforté Farming System is all about utilizing economically and environmentally sustainable farming practices that:
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Effectively
Utilise Fertilizer Inputs (High NUE)
Increase Soil Mineral Nutrient Status and Soil Carbon
Multiply Beneficial Biological Activity
Improve Water Infiltration and Water Holding Capacity (High WUE)
Minimize Soil
Degradation
and Build-up of
Residues, Help
Reduce
greenhouse
gas emissions
Produce More With Less
✓ Cutting-Edge technologies
✓ Easy to apply using standard farming equipment
✓ Based on over 20 years of robust R&D
✓ Tailor made programs
✓ Improves Soil Health and enhances Soil Fertility
✓ Suitable for Conventional and Regenerative farming
Current and Future Scenarios
One of the most Important Industries of the Australian Economy - forecast to generate Au$76 Billion in 2021-22 (ABARES; Australian Bureau of Statistics).
Modern agriculture is currently facing a number of challenges due to:
Declining rainfall
Reduced Profit Margins
Changing Consumer Sentiment
Soil Degradation
Agriculture
Increased input requirements, costs and disruptions to supply chain are contributing further to the difficulties being experienced by farmers.
The first national audit of Australian soils (National land & water Resources Audit), in 2000, found that soil health is declining due to processes such as:
Acidification
The Audit estimated that large areas of affected soils occur in
Nearly 50 million Hectares of the agricultural zone are already suffering – probably markedly affecting yields.
It summarised that "soils with surface layers containing low organic content are often poorly structured – a condition made worse by various agricultural practices".
The Troforté Farming System presents primary producers with an opportunity to minimise the impacts of these challenges by:
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Improving Soil Health, Soil Quality and Soil Fertility.
Reducing the costs of nutrient inputs whilst maintaining yield
Using effective mineral fertilizers and beneficial microbe inoculum to improve nutrient use efficiency (NUE); and helping produce value- added nutrient dense, nutritious food and quality fibre.
Sequestering Soil Carbon
Increasing the water use efficiency of crops and pastures by increasing the water holding capacity of the soils and increasing the plant depletion zone, and helping mitigate the risks of Climate Change.
Tackle constraints within the soil and other issues
Hydrophobicity, pH, salinity, compaction, nutrification, contamination, etc; and reducing agricultural production of Green House Gases (GHG).
Increasing the resilience of crops and pastures resulting in reduced chemical intervention
Leading to Economic and Environmental Sustainability
The Troforté Farming System is the new Paradigm in Agriculture:
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Enhancing Soil Nutrition, Soil Microbiology and Soil Health
The Current System
Vicious cycle repeats and as a result soils become "acidified and salinized, devoid of biological life", and contaminated with biologically "incompatible" chemical residues (eg pesticides, herbicides, fungicides etc).
Rejuvenate the soil health and soil fertility by way of beneficial biology and balanced mineral nutrition
Rainfall
Over the last decade, there has been a significant change in rainfall patterns – particularly across dryland agricultural regions of Australia.
Agronomists, using new computer modelling by NSW Department of Primary Industries Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute, have suggested that farmers need to adopt remedial measures to prevent declines in crop yields, such as adopting strategies to retain more moisture in the soil – as reduced rainfall is expected to reduce both crop biomass and grain yield.
A new climate is emerging in Australia, according to Dr David Stephens the Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre (AEGIC), at the 2016 GRDC Perth Grains Research Update.
A lead cropping system modeller has used climate projection data and Agriculture Production Systems Simulator (APSIM software) to grow various crops "Virtually".
There has been a general increase in summer rainfall, and a corresponding decrease in winter rainfall, leading to shifts in rainfall zones extending for hundreds of kilometres – according to new maps released by AEGIC.This change in climate has major implications for the profitability and sustainability of farming and pastoral systems.
Predictions are that crop yields could be as much as 45% lower with the declining trend in annual rainfall, if current farming methods and varieties continue to be used.
Non-Wetting Soils
Water repellent sandy soils of southern and western grain growing regions of Western Australia....
There is enough evidence that due to indiscriminate use of synthetic fertilizers under the conventional....
Various researches suggests that sustainable cultivation of these agricultural and horticultural crops....
Indiscriminate use of non-compatible and high analysis synthetic inputs, can be detrimental to soil fertility....
Agriculture in Australia lies at the cross roads of climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts....
Adaptation measures, to maintain crop yields and efforts in mitigating risk and the negative impact on environment....
The Way Forward
Troforté® Innovations Pty Ltd, synonymous with its name is dedicated to fundamentally enhancing research and development strengths (Forte) using innovative practices, technologies and systems.
Troforté® Innovations (the research arm of Sunpalm Australia and Langley Fertilizers), in strategic alliance with various universities and Research institutions is specialising in R&D driven manufacturing of cutting edge innovative fertilizer products. Sunpalm Australia’s strategic manufacturing alliances in Australia and overseas, ensures that innovative fertilizers are available and affordable.
Langley’s Troforté® Farm Management System provides more choice for farmers and helps meet the demand for more sustainable agricultural practices in the current agricultural climate. It essentially involves, enriching the living portion of the soil and creating reserves of nutrients through its’ proprietary and cutting edge Bio-minerals fertilizer / Microbial based Technologies and Slow / Controlled Release fertilizer Technologies.
The Microbial Products, responsible for beneficial soil biology, are based on microorganisms derived from nature such as beneficial bacteria and fungi. They offer a sustainable, cost effective solutions to improve and protect crop yields when used correctly in tandem with judicious quantities of chemical inputs.
The Key to the success of Troforté® Farming system lies in continual improvement of soil fertility status through "microbial carbon biomass" production and by maintaining optimum level of macro and micro nutrients in the soil sub-system for uptake by the crops – at its crucial development phases.
The unique combination of innovative fertilizer coating / matrix technologies and beneficial microbiological technologies ensures that nutrients are used in the most efficient manner (high Nutrient Use Efficiency) – and are available in the soil for uptake by the crops at various stages. Thanks to Troforte® Technology.
Our particular interest and focus is on sustainable soil health and resource use efficiency in intensive farming systems – all rooted in the emerging needs of growers related to agricultural & horticultural industries.
Significant features of Troforté®
Technology
Release pattern and availability of nutrients in the soil for crop uptake from Troforté® Technology fertilizer products is virtually identical to those of natural organic fertilizers, such as fish meal and rapeseed oil cake etc.
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Slow Controlled Release of Nutrients through Osmotic pressure and / or microbial decomposition
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Microbial metabolization
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Mineralisation of microbial & other organic nutrients
The Troforté® Farming System is a way forward, an integrated ‘whole- of-farm’ management approach, a revolutionary middle ground, that builds on the "best of conventional and organic farming practices incorporating cutting-edge agricultural science".
Development of technologies incorporated in the Troforté® Farming System essentially involves years of R&D work, specific to the crops and regions that now can be used to enhance soil health and also the adaptive capacity to climate change thereby contributing to resilient, profitable and sustainable farming in present and future scenarios.
Take Home Message
The Troforté® Farming System – aim is to enhance Soil Health, Nutrient Use Efficiency (NUE) and Gross Margin.
Troforté® Farming Programs are all about utilizing economically and environmentally sustainable farming practices that:
Multiply beneficial biological activity
