Biologicals hold great promise for improving crop production. The crop input segment is now occupied by almost 500 companies with almost 2,000 registered products that include claims to do everything from increasing root activity, soil microbes, and nutrient availability to building plant resiliency to abiotic stresses.
It is a difficult market, however, for many farmers to navigate. One of the big challenges that many biologicals face is consistent performance — too often the products work in some field environments, but fail to deliver in other growing conditions.
Graig Whitehead, ADM director of biologicals and new technology, says consistent performance is a big reason his company was excited to partner with BiOWiSH Technologies, Inc. to offer a BiOWiSH fertilizer enhancement as an option to urea, monoammonium phosphate (MAP), diammonium phosphate (DAP) and NPK blends.
In this report from the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa, Whitehead says the BiOWiSH product — a blend of microbial cultures coated onto dry fertilizer or mixed with liquid fertilizers to create an enhanced efficiency fertilizer — boasts a robust dataset.
Whitehead notes that more than 300 replicated trials have been conducted on a global level over the past decade. “This is really, really impressive. And what becomes even more evident very quickly is the consistency of the results within those trials. He specifically points to results that include a six per cent yield uplift from trials “in what I would call more developed agriculture countries such as North America.”
The product is specifically designed to optimize yield potential with better nutrient uptake and to improve soil conditions for increased plant vigour. Watch the video below.
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