Phosphorus Efficiency Saves Dollars And Reduces Carbon Footprint

This is Tim Hammerich of the Ag Information Network with your Farm of the Future Report.

The agriculture industry has made strides toward finding new ways to produce nitrogen. But phosphorus, on the other hand, can only be produced through traditional mining. Hunter Swisher, founder and CEO of Phospholutions says their solution helps improve phosphorus efficiency, and ultimately saves farmers money.

Swisher... "The sustainability side, we've actually been surprised to see how much the channel is interested in the sustainability aspect. We built this product based on being more economically viable for both the distributor and the grower. But ultimately, there's a massive impact on carbon emissions. Phosphate's a pretty difficult nutrient to reduce the carbon footprint because it's mined and it's shipped in bulk. What we found is that we launched a third-party life cycle analysis, our product reduces carbon emissions per acre by over 45 percent compared to MAP & DAP. That's both from removing higher carbon intensity raw materials off the farm field and replacing it with a lower carbon intensity product and the overall reduction in volume."

Swisher says their products are applied the same way as MAP and DAP.

Swisher... "Third-party study done by funded by the fertilizer industry shows that we can actually reduce runoff potential by 78 percent compared to Map and Dap, which is a dramatic improvement in how much is ultimately getting into our waterways. And by the way, the product makes everyone more money involved."

Again that’s Phospholutions founder and CEO, Hunter Swisher.