In this tight farm economy, producers want to get the most out of every input. Adam Cowser, Producer Manager at Valent BioSciences, says biostimulants are a great way for farmers to stretch their dollar.
“These are products that are designed to help the plant overcome, say, abiotic stress, be more efficient with fertilizer and water uptake, could even help the plant in certain characteristic ways, such as increasing sugar content in say sugar cane or sugar beets, could be helping grain fill and say wheat or corn. There’s a lot of different things that biostimulants can do to help the plant, whether it’s root growth, or root and shoot growth, those are just some things that biostimulants can do.”
He added many of the tools they have in the toolbox look to address the most common issues expressed by farmers.
“Our arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, being able to perform in really abiotic stress conditions. So, let’s just think about not much water that we’re getting, maybe being more efficient with our nutrients, those two things. Also with the Transit 500 biostimulant, when we apply that to certain crops, we’re seeing that our fertilizers being more efficient. We’re able to bring up more of those nutrients from the soils to the leaves and better utilize those nutritions.”