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Some biostimulant products are meant to help see crops through environmental stressors such as unusual cold or heat.
Biologicals, Crops

Biologicals aren’t the silver bullet

The products can be complements, not replacements, for other inputs

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Glacier FarmMedia — Biological products have been touted as replacements for synthetic chemistry and fertilizer in crop production, but that may be a false promise. According to one pitch, if farmers add biological X to the soil, they can cut nitrogen rates by 15 pounds per acre. According to another, biological Y can control a […] Read more
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Biologicals, Crops

Nitrogen-fixing biologicals fall short at field level

Challenges remain for products to achieve their hoped-for potential

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Glacier FarmMedia — Dave Franzen is a straight shooter. If he doesn’t know the answer, the North Dakota State University soil scientist will admit it; if he does, he’ll tell you. As an example, in the summer of 2022 researchers from land grant universities across the north-central U.S. studied commercially available, biological nitrogen-fixing products to […] Read more
Adding biologicals to the soil doesn’t always work in the field, so a better approach could be altering the plant genome to work in synergy with soil microbes, a plant scientist and soil microbiology expert from the University of Kansas says.

Biologicals, Crops

Ways to improve the microbiome

Scientists consider how we could better support relationships between plants, soil and microbes

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Glacier FarmMedia — The hyperbole around biologicals and what they can do for crop production sounds like 10 million crickets in a suburban backyard. There’s a lot of noise around biologicals, and for good reason. Soil contains millions of bacteria, fungi and other microbes that perform vital functions for plants. As a result, global agri-science […] Read more
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Biologicals, Crops

Farmer interest growing in plant biostimulants

Companies hope to fill an existing 'knowledge gap' about the purpose of these products

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Glacier FarmMedia — At 2 p.m. on July 17, Ryan Bonnett and many other people at the Ag In Motion farm show near Langham were seeking a place in the shade. The temperature was around 30 C and the word “hot” came up in most conversations at the show. The afternoon temperature was also on […] Read more

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