Should I use a pre-defined or custom fertilizer?

Pre-defined fertilizer are for clients who want an off-the-shelf product library. Custom fertilizer are for clients who don't have a 1:1 product mapping for their grower's fertilizers blends.

There are three type of fertilizer categories that might be applied: 

  1. Basic inorganics: your traditional synthetic fertilizer (ex. Ammonium nitrate.
    1. EENF inorganics: enhanced efficiency nitrogen fertilizers designed to reduce nitrogen losses to the environment and increase nitrogen availability to crops (ex. SuperU)
  2. Organics: organic fertilizers or nutrients like manure, mulch, compost, etc.

Within both inorganics and organics, Measure API gives two options for describing your fertilization: 

  1. Choosing a predefined fertilizer: Choose a validated fertilizer product from an existing library where Regrow supplies a default nutrient ratios and a default liquid or dry form.
  2. Creating a custom fertilizer: Create your own custom fertilizer product where all nutrient ratios are supplied by the client.

 The following are the objects available within Measure API and a guide for when to choose that object.


 

Predefined fertilizer

Custom fertilizer



Description

Regrow-validated fertilizer products list with accompanying nutrient composition and liq/dry forms

Create your own custom fertilizer product where nutrient ratios and liquid densities (when applicable) are supplied by the client.

When would I choose to use this fertilizer type?
  • For clients who want to use an existing fertilizer library to increase ease of implementation.
  • For clients who do not require blends or customization.
  • For clients whose fertilizers and/or basic nutrient ratios match with Regrows.
  • For clients who want the ability to customize the fertilizer products because there is no 1:1 mapping available for their products.

Objects


Inorganic

and

EENF Inorganics 

FertilizerEvent

CustomFertilizer

Organics


OrganicAmendmentEvent


CustomOrganicAmendment