Biostimulants For Yield And Quality

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

Every year farmers have to battle new challenges to grow a profitable crop, and through challenges like resistance and regulation, chemical tools are not what they used to be. Biological alternatives have been hit or miss, but New Leaf CEO Brent Smith sees opportunity in the expanding biostimulant market. He says some of these products, used in the right circumstances can have an impact on both yield and quality.

Smith… “What the biostimulants do is they create a better, healthier plant. And I think biologicals, the evolution of biologicals, really started with yield, was sort of the thing you were going after. Today, I kind of believe yield is sort of table stakes. And so in addition to that, what we're doing is we're looking for quality components. So I'll give you an example of that. We did some work with silage feed. But we did it then all the way down, traced it to the dairies. Not only were we able to increase the yield of the silage corn, that's great. That's what a bio stimulant should do, but we were able to improve the digestibility of that feed in the cow, and ultimately produce a higher yield in milk.”

Learn more on the New Leaf Symbiotics website: https://www.newleafsym.com/.