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Hey pistachio growers — how's your pre- shell split foliar nutrition window treating you?

Late June is the nutrient touch-up timing. Shell split is the main event. And with the Valley hitting triple digits, getting the right nutrition into the canopy now isn't just about yield — it's about protecting trees that are going to be under serious heat stress for the next several weeks.

DPG Foli Thrive delivers potassium, boron, zinc, and seaweed. One gallon per acre. Formulated for this timing.

We're offering free tissue, water, and soil sample analysis + a sit-down with one of our agronomists to see if Foli Thrive fits your operation.

Reach out before the window closes.

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The Deerpoing Group CEO Mike Hemman recently sat down with The Packer to talk about taking on his new role and how he plans to help growers reduce their operational risks.

Read the article to learn more:

Why the Next Era of Crop Nutrition Looks Exactly Like Precision Irrigation Deerpoint Group’s new CEO, Mike Hemman, explains how shifting from siloed, batch-style fertilizer applications to an integrated, fully managed system is the key to surviving today's unpredictable agricultural market.

Most growers test tissue or soil. Not many test water.

Even fewer run tissue, soil, and water together, which is the only way to understand why a nutrient that shows up in your soil analysis isn't showing up in your tissue report.

That mismatch has a cause. Do you know what it is?

We're offering free agronomy analysis to the first 100 almond and pistachio growers (200+ acres) this season.

𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀, 𝗿𝘂𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻-𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗯, 𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻.

If you want the full picture of water, tissue, and soil, this is how you find out.

Check the link in the comments!

1 𝙜𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙣/𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙚𝙧, 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙝𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙨𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙩.

DPG Foli Thrive is a potassium, boron, zinc, and seaweed blend formulated specifically for tree nuts in summer. Made in our Madera lab so you know exactly what's in it.

We've had growers do the math against what they were spending before. It's usually a pretty short conversation.

Interested in seeing if it makes sense for your operation? Reach out, we're offering a free tissue, water, and soil sample analysis plus an agronomist consultation before the hullsplit window closes. 🔗 in comments!

Thirty-three years ago, Deerpoint started with a simple problem: Central Valley growers were switching to drip irrigation, and nobody was solving their water quality issues.

𝗦𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗱.

From there, growers kept talking to us. Telling us what they needed. Asking questions we didn't have answers to yet.

𝗦𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺.

Today we manufacture our own fertilizers through proprietary chemical processes — not blending, not repackaging — because the blend a grower needs in May isn't the same blend they need in July. What works on one block doesn't work on the next. And no two seasons are the same.

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁.

We didn't start with a product catalog. We started by listening. Everything we formulate, every program we build, every recommendation we make comes back to one question:

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄?

Our Central Valley growers have been answering that question for us for over three decades. We're here to deliver.

𝗨𝗖 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁 "𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗻-𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴" 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀.

The concept: crops have a predictable season-long nutrient demand curve. Nitrogen uptake in almonds follows a specific pattern — low at dormancy, ramping up through bloom, peaking around hull split, then declining. A mature almond orchard removes about 68 lbs of N per 1,000 lbs of kernel yield — but the timing of that uptake matters as much as the total.

Applying fertilizer in large slugs doesn't match this curve. Most of it doesn't end up in the tree. 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗽'𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

Check out some info behind the stats here:https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/is/ffldrs/frep/pdfs/Brown_2013.pdf

www.cdfa.ca.gov

The Valley is going from 70° to over 100° next week.

Almonds at hullsplit are already doing a lot, and adding heat stress on top of that is how you end up with tissues that don't look right at the end of the season. Potassium is what keeps stomata working when it gets hot. Boron and zinc are critical to what's happening in the hull right now. Seaweed helps buffer the stress load on the tree.

That's DPG Foli Thrive. One gallon, applied at hullsplit, made in-house by Deerpoint.

If you want to know whether it's a fit for your orchard before the window closes, we'll come out, pull free tissue, water, and soil samples, and go over the results with you.

Check the link in comments to schedule a sample collection.

May and June are when you start seeing the problems that started two months ago.
Deficiencies that showed up in tissue during bloom are getting confirmed in the field now. By the time you can see them, you've already lost some of what those nutrients were supposed to do.

𝗪𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗼 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 — 𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲, 𝘀𝗼𝗶𝗹, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿. First 100 growers on 200+ acres get it at no cost. Josh Krueger will follow up with site evaluations in July for growers who want to dig into the results.

If you've been meaning to get a fresh look at your program, this is a low-friction way to do it. 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀!

Pistachios are pulling potassium hard right now and will consistently through August. No breaks, no coasting.

And almond orchards are burning through potassium faster than at any other point in the season. Nut fill is the peak K-demand window. Research shows almonds accumulate more than half their total seasonal potassium in just the first three months after bloom. That's not a slow, even draw. It's a sprint.

Here's where most programs run into trouble: they apply potassium on a schedule. Fixed rates, fixed timing, based on what a calendar says rather than what the tree is actually demanding at that moment.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝘅™ 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘆.

Real-time monitoring means we can see what's happening in the orchard right now — not what happened last week or what we predicted three months ago. When demand spikes during nut fill, we're already there. When conditions shift, we adjust. The grower doesn't have to do anything — the system is watching, and the field tech is acting on what it sees.

𝗣𝗼𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝘂𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝘂𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲.

This is exactly the kind of thing continuous fertigation was built for — not just delivering nutrients, but delivering them when the crop is actually ready to use them.