John KempfRegenerative Agriculture Entrepreneur

Organic Potato checkin 7/30/26

5 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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A russet potato crop planted with phosphorus, Rejuvenate, Mycogenesis, OP8, and other biologics shows vigorous root development even in dry conditions. The crop is in early fill stage, with a planned application to boost photosynthesis and sugar translocation into tubers.

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Yeah, so we put a planter solution on our potatoes here. We had a little bit of phosphorus, we had Rejuvenate, Mycogenesis, a little bit of OP8, and a Primer package, as well as some Holocal. And I believe that might be maybe boron. I don't think we have boron early. There was a few micronutrients that we got in here as well, but mainly we were just focusing on getting really good association with the biology and getting everything in the roots going, which you can see. So right now we're really more in a— this is actually pretty good set for, um, for russets right now. Um, We are really in the early fill stages, so it's a pretty good set, really great root development, a lot of good hairs. And for being so dry, these are not irrigated, so I mean, really a healthy plant. We do still have a fill application that we'll be putting on, which is all focused on photosynthesis and just moving sugars into the tubers, right? So we're just concentrating on keeping the plants healthy, and just energy and moving things into the tubers to get as much weight on this set that we have here.