Not Your Father’s Fertilizer: How Fertilizer Has Changed in 40 Years
The 4R framework has close ties to agricultural sustainability and is seeing a generation’s worth of change in today’s fertilizer products. The goal is to do more with the fertilizer investments made and keep farmers profitable while improving their sustainability. Product development, environmental stewardship, and crop yields have dynamically changed in 35 years, but what changes have fertilizer products seen? This article by The Daily Scoop provides an overview of some of the technological advancements to the fertilizer industry, including:
- Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizers (EEFs): Controlled-release products, ammonia volatilization inhibitors, and nitrification inhibitors.
- Packing nutrients: Balanced crop nutrition with hundreds of customizable options for micronutrients, macronutrients, and secondary nutrients.
- Sulfur: Sulfur isn’t a new crop nutrient, but how crops get sulfur has changed due to the Clean Air Act.
- Biological products: Potential tools to reduce rates and complement traditional fertilizers.
Learn about these advancements from industry experts including Nutrien Director of Agronomy Dr. Karl Wyant on The Daily Scoop.
