Micronutrients are an essential part of balanced crop nutrition plans. Although required in smaller amounts, micronutrients are important for plant growth, development and metabolic processes.
When a plant is deficient in micronutrients, plant health and yield potential will be reduced. However, on the flip side, excessive amounts of micronutrients can be just as devastating, creating toxicities for plants and locking up other key nutrients in soil, making them unavailable. That’s why it is crucial to find the right balance of micronutrients and apply them evenly across the field to prevent deficiencies and toxicities that reduce yield potential.
Even when formulated in the right ratios to meet a crop’s nutrient needs, traditional commodity fertilizer blends contain different nutrients in separate granules, making distribution wildly inconsistent across a field. The result is that some areas will have too much of a given nutrient, while others will not have enough to meet a plant’s requirements. Many times, vital nutrients applied in small amounts, like zinc and boron, are not available to every plant, leading to inconsistent soil fertility. Unequal nutrient distribution can also cause inconsistent plant growth across the field and reduced yield potential.
Achieving Uniform Nutrient Distribution
With performance fertilizers like MicroEssentials® and Aspire® from The Mosaic Company, it’s possible to achieve uniform nutrient distribution across entire fields. Unlike commodity fertilizers, these products supply multiple nutrients in one homogenous, nutritionally balanced granule to provide more sites for plants to reach the nutrients they need. Ultimately, MicroEssentials and Aspire efficiently deliver balanced nutrition to each and every plant, resulting in higher yields and profitability.
Increasing Nutrient Use Efficiency
While applying MicroEssentials or Aspire to ensure uniform distribution of nutrients, adding a Bio Crop Nutrition product to the application can activate the connection between microbes and nutrients in the soil for greater nutrient use efficiency and a stronger return on fertilizer investment (ROFI).
BioPath® and PowerCoat® from Mosaic Biosciences™ are formulated with proven strains of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR). These select, highly effective strains of spore-forming Bacillus bacteria colonize in and around developing crop roots, specifically the rhizosphere, and produce organic acids and enzymes to improve nutrient availability, uptake, and utilization for greater yield potential and ROFI.
