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A Christmas Carol for Copper: Why Copper Acetate Foliar Fertilizer Deserves a Place in Your Fertility Program
As winter sets in and fields slow down, it’s a good time to revisit the nutrients that quietly shape yield long before harvest. Copper may be a micronutrient, but overlooking it can haunt a fertility program in much bigger ways than most growers expect. Like Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, it’s often the small, ignored details that come back to matter most.
Copper acetate foliar fertilizer represents a modern shift in how copper is delivered. By bypassing soil tie-up and delivering copper directly through the leaf in a highly available form, copper acetate helps crops access what they need when timing matters most. Recent on-farm and third-party trials have shown copper acetate dramatically improving tissue copper levels and outperforming traditional EDTA and amino acid sources, reinforcing that form and delivery can make all the difference.
Sometimes, the biggest improvements don’t come from adding more inputs, but from choosing a better one.