Mosaic Biosciences launches Neptunion in China
The Mosaic Company has announced the Chinese launch of Neptunion, its latest biostimulant product.
Tag: Biostimulants
Bio-based fertilizer materials: benefits and challenges
Fertiberia’s Cinta Cazador Ruiz outlines the aims of the B-FERST project and highlights its major successes.
Vanguard views on future farming
What dividends might farming technology deliver in future decades? Three vanguard companies, ICL Growing Solutions, John Deere and BigSis, share their thoughts.
Measuring innovation
Vatren Jurin of DunhamTrimmer proposes a sophisticated methodology that accurately tracks the global value-added fertilizer market.
The reluctant thought leader
Simon Inglethorpe, editor of Fertilizer International, shares his thoughts on the hurdles facing the fertilizer industry and how best to vault these.
Van Iperen’s Green Switch journey
Van Iperen International is pursuing an ambitious sustainability strategy to cut its carbon footprint by 50%.
Maximising soybean crop yields
Soybean growers are increasingly turning to biostimulants and micronutrients such as boron to achieve yield gains.
BioConsortia – the uniquely positive biologicals company
California-based biologicals company BioConsortia is launching the nitrogen-fixing product Always N for 2025 season sales in New Zealand with its partner Mosaic. The product, which is based on robust, spore-forming, gram-positive microbes (Paenibacillus ) fixes atmospheric nitrogen throughout the growing season by colonising the roots of corn, wheat and potatoes, as well as fruits and vegetables. Always N delivers consistent yield gains and is backed by data from more than 300 trials in Brazil, New Zealand, the US and Europe. Fertilizer International spoke with Marcus Meadows-Smith, the company’s CEO, ahead of the Fertilizer Latino Americano 2025 conference.
What are farmers thinking?
The International Fertilizer Association’s annual Global Markets Conference is an in-depth event for those tracking the market. This year’s two-day gathering in London in July lived up to its billing as a meeting of curious minds (Fertilizer International 521, p4).
Green fertilizers enter the market
The last year has seen the first shipments of low-carbon ‘green’ fertilizers from companies such as Yara, Fertiberia, OCI and Sabic Agri-Nutrients. Partnerships with food manufacturers and retailers are helping to grow this emerging market and drive demand.