Plant Nutrition Taking Cues from Pharmaceutical Industry
Tim Hammerich
News Reporter
For new product innovations many agribusinesses are looking at advancements happening in the pharmaceutical industry. AgXplore International launched their ArchiTech product that executive vice president Gunther Kreps says is the first ever EPA registered plant nutrition product in US history.
Kreps… “It's built to help a plant do two things. One, to drop stress inside of it, so when Mother Nature throws those early curve balls at us to drop that ethylene glycol, while those corn or beans or cotton to continue to function. And then it's built with a ten five five with a micronutrient package to support the acceptance of sunlight and photosynthesize. So it's gonna build a bigger growth of your stock on corn and bigger fatter wider leaves on crops, which is step one. So it's actually got a component called GABA, which is gamma aminobutyric acid. It comes from the pharmaceutical world. It's a stress reduction agent in humans, so it's something that the body naturally produces. The brain naturally produces. What works in the pharmaceutical world also works in plants a lot of times. It's just how do we implement it, and when do we implement it? And that post trip application, say V3 to V5 on corn is a perfect time to do it.”
Kreps says the foliar applications fits into the vegetative stage or what he calls the architectural phase of crop development.
