The team at Anuvia has announced a second industry partnership to expand the reach and efficacy of its bio-based granular fertilizer products.
As CEO Amy Yoder explains, after striking a partnership with Novozymes, Anuvia’s SymTrx product will now be coated with Novozymes’ phosphate solubilizing microbial solution, which provides at least an additional 10 units of phosphorus.
“We call our product a functional granule to transport biologicals,” she says.
The two companies have been in discussions and explorations on how to combine their products for a little over a year. After initial testing showed favorable results, they continued to refine the product.
As the standard offering of SymTRX starting in late 2022, the product will deliver additional phosphorus with three advantages:
- The microbes mine the soil for phosphorus that is otherwise bound in the soil and unavailable
- From more than 800 trials, the minimum return is an additional 10 units of phosphorus
- You get more phosphorus available and no worries about leaching
Yoder says the Anuvia bio-based fertilizer granule has shown to be a compatible base for microbial products.
“And compared to putting a biological on seed, which has to be bagged and then shelf stable for up to two years, our granule can be coated with the product and then it’s used within a year of its production,” she says.
This is the first result of the Novozymes development partnership, with more to come.
“Next we are working on using additional Novozymes products and exploring how to have biopesticides with our product,” Yoder says. “It comes down to how can we help farmers use biological products without requiring any change of practice from the farmer’s perspective.”
Anuvia just completed its first growing season after moving into its production-scale facility in Plant City, Fla. And to-date the company has seen high demand of product.
“We still have more demand than we are able to make,” Yoder says.
Anuvia also has a sales and marketing partnership with Mosaic, which exclusively distributes its 10S product as Susterra.
“It’s disruptive for us to switch back and forth from producing our 10S and 20S products, so in the next year, we are working to open a second line and have dedicated production to each product,” Yoder says.
