Farm Science to Value: Biostimulant crop response #shorts

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]How do you turn, you know, that science into value on the farm? Yeah, one of our first biostimulants that we brought to market was in a product called Atlas.

[00:00:09]And that's a we call it our biocatalyst technology. So, this is an over-treat that you would put on the things like MAP, DAP, or potash, right? So, if you look through maybe uh um things from Guelph or uh Iowa State or the Fertilizer Institute, they might estimate something like, you know, phosphorus availability being somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 to 30% of the phosphorus you put out. Really, really low kind of efficiency of that of that commodity fertilizer. So, we look at that and what we see there is an opportunity. What is holding us back from having more efficiency from that?

[00:00:40]And in this case, we take a biological system and we allow it to create the chemistry that would normally be done in the soil. That chemistry that makes those nutrients now minerally available to the plant. We apply that chemistry over top of our fertilizers, so when we put it out, we can take that 15 to 30% efficiency and we can bump that up. And that we can measure. And you can measure that in how the plant responds, you can measure that in yield. And we can see that in seasons where Mother Nature's working with you, and we can see that in seasons that are more challenging. So, that's been one of the more rewarding things about Atlas is to see it work across broad geographies, different sorts of crops, and year after year after year.