Plant nutrition inspired by the pharmaceutical industry
Tim Hammerich
news reporter
I’m Tim Hammerich from Ag Information Network, bringing you the Farm of the Future report.
For new product innovations, many agribusinesses are looking to the advances occurring in the pharmaceutical industry. AgXplore International launches ArchiTech products, which Executive Vice President Gunther Kreps says are the first EPA-registered plant nutrition products in U.S. history.
Kreps… “They are created to allow plants to do two things. One is to reduce stress internally. When Mother Nature threw us an early curveball and added ethylene glycol to the And it’s built with 10 5 5 elements with a micronutrient package that supports sunlight reception and photosynthesis. That’s step one, which is actually gamma-aminobutyric acid, which is from the pharmaceutical world. It’s a stress-reducing substance in humans, so it’s something that the body produces naturally. What works in the pharmaceutical world often works in plants as well. The key is how to implement it and when to implement it. And post-travel applications, for example V3 to V5 in corn, are the perfect time to do it.”
Krebs says foliar applications fit into the vegetative stage, or what he calls the architectural stage of crop development.
