Calcium is an essential plant nutrient.

  • Calcium plays a key role in strengthening cell walls.
  • Calcium uptake by the plant is passive and does not require energy input.
  • Calcium is a key component in plant metabolic processes, and enables the uptake of other nutrients.
  • Calcium helps in protecting plants against heat stress.  It improves stomata function and participates in induction of heat shock proteins.
  • Calcium promotes leaf hardening, which is the ability of young leaves to become firm quickly.  This reduces attractiveness to pests.
  • Calcium helps protecting plants against diseases.  Harmful fungi and bacteria secrete enzymes which impair plant cell wall.  Stronger cell walls, aided by calcium, can limit damage to the plants.

Sweeten your soil with Lafarge CKD.

  • Sunalta Fertilizer is pleased to announce that we’ll be sourcing CKD (cement kiln dust) from the Lafarge plant near Canmore.
  • A surprising percentage of soils in Central Alberta are acidic.  These soils can be sweetened with CKD.
  • Lafarge CKD has a high neutralizing value of 86%
  • Our CKD is very finely powdered, allowing it to react faster than competing products: Sieve#10 – 99.7%  Sieve#60 – 90.20%  Sieve#100 – 80.4%
  • Lafarge CKD.  Sourced in Alberta!