Extreme weather. Shrinking margins. Growing demands. These are just a few of the things on growers’ minds every day. With more quantity and quality being asked of them each season, farmers need access to a variety of tools to produce a crop year after year. That’s just what biologicals are — another tool in the toolbox to help use nutrients more efficiently to grow a more productive, healthier crop.
Across agriculture, we are learning more about the role microbes have in the relationship between soil, plants and the microbiome, and how these interactions impact plant growth and health. We’re using these innovative learnings to create new biologicals designed to improve on-farm production. With the help of DNA sequencing of different microbes, a process called metagenomics, we’re discovering more about the different modes of action for different microbes, giving us the opportunity to create better biological technologies.
Some biologicals work with the microbes already found in the soil to improve plant productivity and plant health. Other biologicals help mitigate abiotic stress from drought, heat and salinity. Some biologicals can help improve plant productivity in multiple ways including improving nutrient use efficiency and enhancing plant growth and vigor.
For example, two of Mosaic Biosciences™ biologicals, BioPath® and PowerCoat™, contain Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR). These products colonize the rhizosphere where they improve nutrient availability and uptake for their hosts, which in turn improves growth and development. As these bacteria cycle nutrients, those nutrients are made more accessible and available to plants. By improving nutrient availability and uptake in earlier vegetative growth phases with these larger root masses, these biological technologies promote improved nutrient use efficiency that enables increased yield potential for the entire season.
Adding the right biologicals can be an affordable way to increase your return on fertilizer investment and help ensure the nutrients are accessible and plant-available ahead of critical plant uptake periods. These innovative biological technologies help growers produce healthy crops each season while supporting soil health, meeting two critical demands asked of them.
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