The Scoop’s 2021 New Product of the Year Runner-Up

In the readers’ choice online voting, our audience has named Syngenta’s Acuron GT herbicide as the 2021 New Product of the Year. Verdesian’s Trident nitrogen stabilizer is the 2021 runner-up to New Product of the Year.

With nitrogen prices at near record highs, retailers are looking to help farmers make sure that every dollar of crop fertility goes to the crop’s success and that it’s not lost to the environment. 

Three-Pronged Protection From Nitrogen Loss

With protection against volatilization, nitrification and denitrification, Verdesian introduced Trident. Available in three formulations—Trident V, Trident and Trident N—the product can be blended with UAN or urea. 

Verdesian says this product is built with the company’s patent-pending copolymer technology and solvent blend with time-tested active ingredients NBPT and DCD. 

“The goal of this product is to maximize efficiency,” says Josh Griffin, product line marketing manager for the fertilizer enhancer portfolio at Verdesian. “This is a new-and-improved twist on historically proven, time-tested active ingredients. While we didn’t reinvent the wheel, we made these technologies more efficient with adding our patent-pending copolymer technology and patented solvent system.” 

In its initial trials from 2020, Verdesian says Trident provided for a 4.6% yield increase versus untreated across 16 sites and 80 replications in 12 states. An additional benefit of the Trident technology is a flexible use rate of 1.5 qt. to 2.5 qt. per ton of fertilizer. This allows growers to maintain performance but lower the chemical load by up to 40% compared with other NBPT-based products. 

Griffin says nitrogen stabilizers are enabling retailers to provide farmers with tools that can help them take more control over their crops’ success. 

“We can’t control Mother Nature, but what we can control we have controlled,” he says. “When you look at nitrogen prices for the 2022 growing season, I’d compare it to someone building a new home. You would never build a home and not insure it, right? The same goes for nitrogen applications. We want to protect the investment and keep the nitrogen where it needs it’s intended to be.” 
For retailers, Trident is available in 2.5-gal. jugs, totes and bulk fill.