Headland Agrochemicals Ltd, an operating company of Cheminova A/S Denmark, is a leading supplier of both speciality and generic crop protection products, foliar nutrition (including a wide range of advanced micronutrient products), soluble fertilisers and adjuvants to UK agriculture, horticulture, industrial and amenity sectors as well as to overseas markets.

Headland Agrochemicals is located in Deeside, UK where it has a manufacturing and filling plant together with formulation development facilities and a quality control laboratory to ensure advanced products of the highest standard. Headland supplies a wide range of leading crop protection products including selective and non-selective herbicides for use in all sectors as well as fungicides and insecticides for the agricultural and horticultural sector offering advanced formulation for superior performance.

As an operating company of Cheminova A/S, Headland benefits from a pipeline of future development projects ensuring that our agrochemical product range continues to grow and evolve. This enables Headland to adapt to the ever changing demands of our customers and current cropping practices according to new environmental challenges and legislative reform.

Over the past 25 years Headland has expanded it crop nutrition business rapidly and now exports to more than 30 countries worldwide, covering Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australasia and North and South America.

Balanced nutrition is essential for plant development. Nutrient products must be of the highest quality to counter act natural or induced deficiencies, and meet the growing requirements of high yielding crops.

Formulation technology has developed considerably from applying foliar nutrients in basic inorganic form. To be really effective plant nutrients applied to the foliage of any plant, need to move through the waxy plant cuticle into the leaf and into the internal transport system.

It is clear that ingredients in co-formulation with plant nutrients can have a dramatic impact on facilitating leaf entry and on nutrient availability in the plant.

Scientific research data shows that in addition to aiding uptake some co-formulants can act to help compatibility in the spray tank (and some have a dual role, helping both compatibility and uptake), some modify the acidity of the spray water and some act to tie up or block out unwanted ions which could interfere with product efficacy.

Other co-formulants act within the plant by increasing or maintaining levels of chlorophyll, improving the uptake of other nutrients or acting in a similar way to plant hormones. Finally, the type of salt used in the product can have an impact on uptake and availability. For example, manganese based on the nitrate salt has been shown in trials to be taken into the plant more readily than other salts.

Other experiments have shown that magnesium nitrate is more readily available than magnesium sulphate.

All Headland products utilise the best ingredients available to ensure any investment in plant nutrition is maximised.

Applying a plant nutrient in basic form to the crop is very different from applying a fully formulated Headland product containing a plant nutrient. The first option is cost ineffective in terms of the end result, where as the latter is cost effective as the applied nutrient is used far more efficiently by the crop.

All Headland products are fully formulated using the most advanced chemistry. They contain the best available surfactants and adjuvants to assist absorption by the plant.