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HGS BioScience Introduces A Trio of HumiK Products
HGS BioScience Introduces A Trio of HumiK Products

Three new products are hitting the HGS BioScience lineup in 2024: HumiK One, HumiK Bio, and HumiK ZN.

David Hula Hit Another New Record Corn Yield With 623 BPA, Now Thinks 900 BPA Is Possible
David Hula Hit Another New Record Corn Yield With 623 BPA, Now Thinks 900 BPA Is Possible

Virginia farmer David Hula is known for growing big yields and he's doing so once again. He won the 2023 NCA National Corn Yield Contest with a new record yield, beating his previous world record set in 2019. 

AgroLiquid Celebrates 40 Years of Business
AgroLiquid Celebrates 40 Years of Business

Family-owned crop nutrition provider AgroLiquid reflects on the past and looks to the future during its companywide celebration.

WinField United’s New Three-Fold Micronutrient Foliar Blend
WinField United’s New Three-Fold Micronutrient Foliar Blend

Introduced as a premium foliar applied blend for 2024, Max-In Ultra ZMB Plus delivers high loads of zinc, manganese and boron. 

Meristem Announces Its Next Generation Bio-Capsule Technology
Meristem Announces Its Next Generation Bio-Capsule Technology

The new Bio-Capsule design has a larger pail, which provides space and capacity for up to six products positioned on a single pail. 

Not Your Father’s Fertilizer: 4 Ways Fertilizer Has Changed in 40 Years
Not Your Father’s Fertilizer: 4 Ways Fertilizer Has Changed in 40 Years

Here’s an overview of some developments that have changed products to be not your father’s fertilizer.

BioWake: Layering Seed Lubrication With A Biological
BioWake: Layering Seed Lubrication With A Biological

BioWake is a dry product and is stable on the seed for 180 days. Application rate is ½ ounce per unit of seed for both corn and soybeans.

Helm Eyes Growth In Biologicals: Two New Products Illustrate The Company’s Commitment
Helm Eyes Growth In Biologicals: Two New Products Illustrate The Company’s Commitment

The company is stepping up with education to advance the proper placement of biological products in the field with timing and applications.

Roundup of Biostimulants Options
Roundup of Biostimulants Options

Here is a guide to the products available in the corn and soybean markets.

Starter Fertilizer: Research Shows Corn Gets a 5% Yield Boost
Starter Fertilizer: Research Shows Corn Gets a 5% Yield Boost

If you’re thinking about cutting starter fertilizer this year because of surging costs, Ken Ferrie has three words of advice: Don’t do it.

More Possibilities In One Pass: Prescriptive Delivery System
More Possibilities In One Pass: Prescriptive Delivery System

New products are unlocking even more potential in what can be delivered in the planting pass.

SIMPAS Adds Two Products In Its Applied Solutions Portfolio
SIMPAS Adds Two Products In Its Applied Solutions Portfolio

Multiple products (which currently spans insecticides, fungicides, nematicides, and micronutrients) can be applied simultaneously.

Koch Completes Compass Minerals’ Micronutrient Business Acquisition, Leader Shares Vision
Koch Completes Compass Minerals’ Micronutrient Business Acquisition, Leader Shares Vision

Steve Coulter, Senior Vice President at Koch Agronomic Services, gives his first interview since the completion of the company’s acquisition of the North American micronutrient portfolio from Compass Minerals.

Agrauxine Acquires Ohio-Based ABM Biologicals Company
Agrauxine Acquires Ohio-Based ABM Biologicals Company

ABM specializes in seed treatment with bionutrition products. Agrauxine by Lesaffre has been developing biosourced solutions for plant nutrition and health for more than 15 years.

Compass Minerals Sells Micronutrient Product Lines To Koch Agronomic Services
Compass Minerals Sells Micronutrient Product Lines To Koch Agronomic Services

Under the terms of the agreement, Compass Minerals will sell substantially all assets related to the company's Wolf Trax, Rocket Seeds and Hydro Bullet micronutrient product lines to Koch.

Mosaic Announces Partnerships with AgBiome and Sound Agriculture
Mosaic Announces Partnerships with AgBiome and Sound Agriculture

Mosaic announces two bio-based and microbe based projects with AgBiome and Sound Agriculture.

Biological Benefits Propel Bio Pass As Product of the Year Runner Up
Biological Benefits Propel Bio Pass As Product of the Year Runner Up

Its unique two-year shelf-life as well as the benefits delivered by the proprietary blend impressed The Scoop readers who voted it the 2020 New Product of the Year Runner Up.

Q&A with Verdesian CEO Kenny Avery
Q&A with Verdesian CEO Kenny Avery

Kenny Avery explains what its new investment partner in AEA Investors means for the business and what he wants ag retailers to know about working with Verdesian.

CommoditAg Adds DeltAg Micronutrient Products
CommoditAg Adds DeltAg Micronutrient Products

“DeltAg products give farmers versatility and assist plants at each critical stage of development,” John Demerly, CEO, CommoditAg.

Biostimulant Council Formed As Part of The Fertilizer Institute
Biostimulant Council Formed As Part of The Fertilizer Institute

One of the biggest goals for the Biostimulant Council will be to define and outline the needed process for the product category. 

Frenchman Valley Cooperative Launches Inputs Business With VantagePoint
Frenchman Valley Cooperative Launches Inputs Business With VantagePoint

With a new strategic partnership, Frenchman Valley Farmers Cooperative (FVC) is launching a line of crop inputs with VantagePoint.

Brandt Expands Illinois Production Facility
Brandt Expands Illinois Production Facility

Brandt’s Pleasant Plains, Ill., manufacturing facility will increase its storage space by more than 30%.

CHS Agronomy Awarded Patent for Levesol Chelate
CHS Agronomy Awarded Patent for Levesol Chelate

The patent includes use of the ortho-ortho EDDHA chelate in the full line of Levesol products including Trivar, Soygreen, Levesol, Levesol ZN, Levesol DFC ZN, Paralign, Redline, Soyshot, and Copperfield.

Keep An Eye on Critical Crop Nutrients
Keep An Eye on Critical Crop Nutrients

Galynn Beer, national sales manager at AgroLiquid, says he’s encouraging ag retailers to take on a consultative role with farmers as they’re making crop fertility decisions for this 2020 crop year.

Two Patents In Potassium Acetate Technology For Nachurs
Two Patents In Potassium Acetate Technology For Nachurs

The company says the technologies are applied as versatile high potassium-content liquid fertilizers, which are branded in the U.S. as Nachurs Bio-K and in Canada as Alpine K-Tech.

“We are selling more MicroEssentials than MAP or DAP,”  says Ross Bender with Mosaic. “It’s not a fad that this product has become our No. 1 product in the past 15 years. "
Maximize The Likelihood For A Micronutrient Yield Response

“We are selling more MicroEssentials than MAP or DAP,” says Ross Bender with Mosaic. “It’s not a fad that this product has become our No. 1 product in the past 15 years. "

Macro and Micronutrient Deficiencies To Watch For
Macro and Micronutrient Deficiencies To Watch For

With 45,000 tissue samples analyzed in 2019, WinField United is working use the 600,000 data points generated in the program.

AgPro Readers Name Crop Fertility Products 2019's Best New Offerings
AgPro Readers Name Crop Fertility Products 2019's Best New Offerings

Both are crop fertility products, and both fit into existing practices—no changes to farmer behavior or extra applications.

Trivar Fertilizer Additive Is Runner-Up For Top New Product
Trivar Fertilizer Additive Is Runner-Up For Top New Product

Trivar has three modes of action to make crop nutrients more available to the plant and is designed to be impregnated on dry fertilizer for fall or spring applications.

Rocket Seeds Wins AgPro Readers’ Choice New Product Award
Rocket Seeds Wins AgPro Readers’ Choice New Product Award

It’s described as “an easy button.” Launched in January of 2019, Compass Minerals brought to market Rocket Seeds, a seed treatment product for crop nutrition.

Brandt Partners With Record-Setting Growers
Brandt Partners With Record-Setting Growers

“We are pleased to be able to bring technology, such as EnzUp to hard working growers such as David Hula who is always working to push yields,” says Brian Haschemeyer, Director of Discovery and Innovation at Brandt.

From reduced production, logistical issues, to new ways farmers are buying fertilizer, the news surrounding this farm input was wide-ranging.
2019’s Top Fertilizer Stories From AgPro

Based on pageviews, here are the most viewed stories about fertilizer that were posted to AgPro’s website.

John Buckley, CEO of Wilbur-Ellis
One-on-One With Wilbur-Ellis CEO John Buckley

Right after Wilbur-Ellis announced its biggest acquisition to-date – acquiring Nachurs Alpine Solutions CEO John Buckley gave AgPro a one-on-one interview.

Compass Minerals Expands Rocket Seeds Line to Five Products
Compass Minerals Expands Rocket Seeds Line to Five Products

Moly Shine (1-5-0; 1.5% Fe, 3% Mn, 3% Mo, 10.5% Zn) is a seed finisher containing micronutrients formulated for soybeans and pulse crops.

West Central Introduces Trivar Broadcast Fertilizer Additive
West Central Introduces Trivar Broadcast Fertilizer Additive

Trivar fertilizer additive has a focus of making phosphorus and micronutrients more available to the plant.

Yield increase (%) as a function of fertility treatment and crop-year combination within a cropping system.
Mosaic Encourages Long-Term Lens Applied to Crop Nutrition

“We created this study to better understand how different fertilizer sources can be combined to deliver more value to the farmer,” says Dr. Ross Bender, agronomist with The Mosaic Company.

According to West Central Distribution, only one in six farmers uses a phosphorus efficiency product, but 83% of farmers are concerned about phosphorus unavailability in their soils, and current phosphorus efficiency in grains is estimated at less than 10%.
West Central Puts Phosphorus In The Spotlight

According to West Central Distribution, only one in six farmers uses a phosphorus efficiency product, but 83% of farmers are concerned about phosphorus unavailability in their soils.

The liquid product features a proprietary delivery package to add a blend of magnesium, sulfur, manganese, molybdenum and zinc to dry fertilizer.
AgXplore Launches Microcoat Adding Five Micro and Secondary Nutrients

Compatible with any phosphorus and potassium fertilizer blend, AgXplore introduces Microcoat, which is a blend of five essential micro and secondary nutrients.

Compass Minerals Plant Nutrition
Compass Minerals Launches Nutrition Line For the Seed Box

The first of four planned products is PMZ Dry, a dry nutritional flow-aid with a 1-10-0, 8% Zn 2% Mn analysis

Ferrie Answers Farmers’ Questions About Sulfur
Ferrie Answers Farmers’ Questions About Sulfur

This time of year, Farm Journal Field Agronomist, Ken Ferrie starts fielding questions from farmers who are starting to plan for the next season.

Dave Hans has rejoined Tiger-Sul Products as marketing manager.
Tiger-Sul Names New Marketing Head

Dave Hans has rejoined Tiger-Sul Products as marketing manager.

Midwestern BioAg and Vivid Life Sciences Launch Strategy for TerraNu
Midwestern BioAg and Vivid Life Sciences Launch Strategy for TerraNu

The TerraNu technology aims to provide nutrients from manure in a much easier to transport as well as a stable medium.

Fertilizer Coating Facility Opened in Alabama
Fertilizer Coating Facility Opened in Alabama

On June 5, Pursell Agri-Tech opened its first controlled-release fertilizer plant in Sylacauga, Alabama.

Brandt Adds Six Formulations to Smart System Lineup
Brandt Adds Six Formulations to Smart System Lineup

These formulations are designed for tank mix compatibility and use with dicamba and 2,4-D herbicides.

Sales volumes and revenues for its plant nutrition groups in both North America and South America outpaced 2017 performance.
Compass Minerals Reports Q1 2018 Results

Sales volumes and revenues for its plant nutrition groups in both North America and South America outpaced 2017 performance.

Verdesian Reformulates Its Mission: Nutrient Use Efficiency
Verdesian Reformulates Its Mission: Nutrient Use Efficiency

The Verdesian Performance Guarantee is a campaign providing a product performance guarantee for Avail and NutriSphere-N.

Atmore Alabama Tiger-Sul
Tiger-Sul Alabama Facility Restores Full Production After Fire

“Looking at pictures of the damage caused by the fire, and realizing this occurred less than nine months ago, reinforces what an extraordinary undertaking this has been."

Tiger-Sul has hired Mark Douglas as regional sales manager for the South-Central region.
Tiger-Sul Eyes Growth In South-Central U.S.

Tiger-Sul has hired Mark Douglas as regional sales manager for the South-Central region.

The Helena Acre and Helena services provide accessibility and a trusted partnership with growers to create a customized solution to weed control, sulfur deficiencies, nitrogen loss and insect protection.
Helena’s New Foliar Fertilizer, Insecticide, N Stabilizer, Herbicide

All part of the Helena Acre product lineup, the new launches include Ele-Max Sulfur LC, Sultrus, N-Fixx XLR and Antares Prime.

To augment NPK blends and provide essential micronutrients, Sigma Biosphere products uses a range of soil and crop appropriate combinations of magnesium, calcium, sulfur and micronutrients in season-long form.
Sigma Agriscience Acquires AM-AG

To augment NPK blends and provide essential micronutrients, Sigma Biosphere products uses a range of soil and crop appropriate combinations of magnesium, calcium, sulfur and micronutrients in season-long form.