Vertical Announces Strong Results From Its 2020 Wollastonite Research and Development Program With Agrinova

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Vertical Announces Strong Results From Its 2020 Wollastonite Research and Development Program With AgrinovaVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / February 22, 2021 / VERTICAL EXPLORATION INC. (TSXV:VERT) ("Vertical"or "the Company") would like to provide an update regarding the positive results it has received from its 2020 Crop Year research and development program that was conducted by AGRINOVA using wollastonite from the Company's St-Onge deposit. All of the research and testing for the 2020 program was managed and monitored by AGRINOVA, a highly regarded Center for Research and Innovation in Agriculture in Quebec, in an effort to optimize the potential agricultural uses of wollastonite and help improve production methods for farmers and agricultural companies located in Quebec.Vertical first appointed AGRINOVA in 2018 to carry out a series of research programs related to the development of a range of agricultural applications for the Company's St-Onge wollastonite deposit located near Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec.In its 2020 program report AGRINOVA again reported positive and encouraging results for Vertical's wollastonite related to agricultural applications, similar to past reports it provided to the Company during its 2018 and 2019 research and development work. AGRINOVA again noted that wollastonite has many important potential agricultural benefits including biological pest control, increased crop yields achieved by enhancing plant immunity, and having unique properties that allow it to serve as a natural bedding for odor management and improved animal hygiene.AGINOVA's 2020 field research program involved working with an agricultural producer from the Nordic Organic Field Crops Innovation Group that volunteered to test Vertical's wollastonite on its farm with technical and scientific support from AGRINOVA. The main objective of the 2020 program was to experiment with the application of wollastonite in Nordic's organic field crops, Including comparing the yields obtained with and without the application of wollastonite and to briefly assess the marginal benefits per hectare of such application.In spring 2020, two experiments were set up to test the application of wollastonite in human food wheat (a grass) and organic soybeans (a legume) at the producer's farm. The full-block devices included four application rates of wollastonite (0, 1.2, 2.5 and 5t /ha), as rec...

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