b"Zachary Andersen uses Picketa equipment to take a reading of potato leaves directly on the truck tailgate. PHOTO: PICKETA SYSTEMSAgronomists take in that information and look at critical levels at that specific time in the season, and either recommend aNUTRIENTS PICKETA TESTS FORfertilizer amendment, like a foliar fertilizer, or maybe just suggest leaving it alone and letting it do its thing, Dumont says. 5 10.811 7 14.007 12 24.305Picketa built their product during the 2021 growing season.B N MgThe 2022 growing season is their soft launch in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, with Picketa results being compared to traditional petiole tests. Further expansion into other regionsBoron Nitrogen Magnesiumis planned for coming years.Traditional petiole samples cost growers $40 per sample while Picketas system costs around $25 per sample. Growers15 30.974 16 32.006 19 39.098are able to access Picketas tests through potato companies andP S Kagronomists, and while the cost can vary theyre cheaper overall with faster turnaround time allowing for more tests to be done during the growing season. Phosphorus Sulfur PotassiumOne of the agronomists Picketa is working with is Dave Bell. Bell was introduced to Picketa in their early days and has20 40.078 25 54.938 29 63.546watched them develop their product. For the 2022 growingCa Mn Cuseason he has hired Picketa to collect petioles samples and report the results on a weekly basis to his customers. Due to the shorter turnaround time, Bell is increasing his total number ofCalcium Manganese Coppersamples by five times the regular amount.It's also going to be able to give us some good feedback on whether the intervention that we've made has actually made a30 65.38difference. We will follow our results, we see that we're trendingZndownward on a nutrient level, we come in and add a nutrient, then hopefully we're going to be able to see the effects of that treatment, Bell says in a phone interview.Zinc32SPUDSMART.COM Summer 2022"