Longreach Comparisons
The following information compares the Longreach series of Water retention and soil breakers with conventional wetting agents/host soil wetter and water treatments.
Conventional Water Treatment:
- Performance effectiveness extremely low and has problems penetrating even sandy soils.
- Requires frequent application even in normal, favourable conditions.
- High evaporation rate and seepage rate.
- Cost-effectiveness extremely low because of need of frequent application.
- Use of water becoming increasingly environmentally unsustainable.
- Excessive use of water may incur significant charges in the future.
Wetting Agents/Host Soil Wetters:
- Up to three times more expensie to purchase and apply on a coverage area/cost ratio.
- Period of applications can vary significantly.
- Performance effectiveness low as products often migrate to the water table quickly after application.
- Can remove natural protective films from plants.
- Products often foam up.
Longreach Water Retainer and Soil Breaker Conditioner:
- Retains water in the host soil for optimum periods at optimal depths (ie root level) and at optimum saturation levels.
- Performance effectiveness very high as single applications can last up to three month and beyond depending on soil conditions.
- Can act as an effective carrier for blended fertilizers/additives and therefore reduces costs associated with using such additives.
- Easy, simple and safe to use, mix and apply.
- Can be applied using mechanical/automatic water delivery systems (ie reticulation) without harming such equipment.
- Fully developed and manufactured in WA by WA based environmental solutions organization.
- Environmentally benign and non-hazerdous according to the criteria of Work Safe Australia.
- Enables water savings of up to 75% and beyond depending on circumstances and conditions under which it is applied.
- Enables cost savings of up to 80%.
- Available in liquid and granule form so can be applied without the use of water.
- Rain or additional smaller amounts of water will re-activate the retention properties of the host soil.
- Longreach Soil Breaker Conditioner prepares most hydroscopic soils to more effectively accept and retain Longreach Water Retainer.
- Will neither remove protective film from plants nor natural oils from the soil.
- Cost effectiveness very high with applications costing anywhere from 0.7c psm to 3.5c psm depending on conditions.
- Exempt by National Registration Authority.
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