The growing season can be full of uncertainties. Your fertility plan can add a measure of certainty to the season and biologicals can help add even more.
Biologicals connect the nutrients in the soil, the plant and the microbiome to efficiently help growers make the most of fertilizer. Biologicals enable crops to reach higher yield potential, which in turn helps farmers boost their return on fertilizer investment.
Unlocking potential in plants, soil and the microbiome by combining Mosaic’s performance fertilizers and biological portfolio is an example of what is called Advanced Crop Nutrition.
Up to 60% of yield potential is dependent on crop nutrition and just 17 key nutrients are needed to help a crop grow. But they’re needed in just the right balance in order to maximize yield potential.
With the help of Fusion® Technology, each granule of MicroEssentials® packs several of those key nutrients —nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur and zinc (in SZ®)— crops need to reach their yield potential.
MicroEssentials does more than just combine nutrients into a granule. Each granule contains two forms of sulfur – sulfate and elemental – for unmatched season-long availability. Phosphorus has greater uptake compared to other phosphate sources, and the zinc in MicroEssentials SZ has greater solubility compared to other dry zinc fertilizers.
Then, biologicals like BioPath® and PowerCoat™ continue to support plants with improved nutrient uptake and availability which increase fertilizer efficiency.
The PGPR — Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria — in BioPath and PowerCoat feed on root exudates as they colonize, producing organic acids and enzymes that improve the solubilization of fertilizer into plant available forms and release bound nutrients. The select strains of Bacillus in BioPath and PowerCoat help maximize the ROI from fertilizer.
By making the most of the applied and in-soil nutrients with Advanced Crop Nutrition, yield potential is bolstered and return on fertilizer investment is strengthened.
Growers can see Advanced Crop Nutrition in action with over 2,300 Field Research Trials in 2022 alone across a variety of crop and soil conditions. See Advanced Crop Nutrition in action.
